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> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:09:11 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Maybe we should take a step back and talk about the goals of this
> > feature.  Is this just to be nice to those who don't read
> > bug-gnu-emacs and send them a notification?  Or do we want to make
> > sure every bug is assigned to some "victim"?  These are different
> > goals, and the solutions are likely to be different.
> 
> I was thinking only of the former.

Then it's easy, but I think most of Emacs isn't maintained by such
individuals.  So you will have covered only a small part of the code.