From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:15:52 +0100 Message-ID: <87k17t4e87.fsf@gnus.org> References: <20191117113054.49837.qmail@mail.muc.de> <87pnhq7mxg.fsf@gnus.org> <87bltaz9g4.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kz25qp9.fsf@gnu.org> <87y2wexsv1.fsf@telefonica.net> <20191118175639.08d02820@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <874kz0pa9y.fsf@gnus.org> <87sgmjyn60.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="221461"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus , Dmitry Gutov , "Perry E. Metzger" To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 13:16:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNa-000vSa-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:16:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNZ-000695-0O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNR-00065q-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNP-0005qP-TT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:16:00 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2]:45988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNP-0005q5-Mz; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iXlNJ-0004EI-29; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:15:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:01:38 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a01:4f9:2b:f0f::2 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242557 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > Maybe we could do the following: > > 1- Get a new Gitlab feature which allows anonymous users to subscribe > arbitrary email addresses to an issue. > > 2- Then we can build an email gateway from bug-gnu-emacs to Gitlab which > adds the bug report (under some "gateway-bot" user) as a new issue and > then subscribes the original submitter's email so they get an email > copy on any activity to the bug. > > 3- Presumably any such email-copy comes with a specially crafted "From:" > address such that replying to that email adds the reply as a comment > in the issue. > > I don't know if Gitlab has feature (3) already, but Github does so > I presume that it's not a problematic feature. Yup; I think we have to have this if Gitlab is to be a usable solution for Emacs. > As for feature (1), while I understand that authentication is usually > necessary to reduce the risks of abuse, I think that such a feature > would be fairly low-risk (not much higher than the risk associated to > allowing anyone with a working email address to register). This reminds me of something that I've been meaning to ask -- how come there's absolutely no spam on debbugs? Presumably all the 40K debbugs addresses are in all the spammers' address books, so the server should be flooded by spam, but nothing makes it through. What's the spam handling system employed by GNU? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no