From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: fixing/disabling the bug news->mail gateway Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:03:26 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263414007 14971 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2010 20:20:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 936@debbugs.gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 13 21:19:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NV9h6-0000by-3o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:19:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NV9h6-0006OO-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NV9g6-0005tq-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NV9g1-0005pc-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52428 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NV9g0-0005pZ-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:33795) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NV9g0-0000eg-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NV9R8-0005eT-LR; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:03:26 -0500 X-Spook: MP5K-SD Fedayeen mailbomb assassinate Gazprom HAMASMOIS X-Ran: ;~PSsCV=e|Fy@fpfaMuSLK9yRmVY()Q%UFS7p#K)uv^Eq^=V6?ui8piao.*5!>W1pW&O/" X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119930 Archived-At: It's a long-standing issue that the news->mail gateway does not work with the bug tracker: http://debbugs.gnu.org/936 When someone posts a message to the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup, it appears on the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list, but not in the bug tracker. For example, Ted Zlatanov's response to bug 5307 today. (Actually, he's the only person I ever notice using the news gateway to post.) The only idea I had to fix this was that the news->mail gateway should inject messages into submit@debbugs.gnu.org rather than directly to the bug-gnu-emacs list. (Debbugs would then automatically take care of appending the data to an exiting report or creating a new bug depending on whether the subject line contained an existing bug number.) Does anyone knw if this is doable? It doesn't seem to be possible in a standard mailman setup, but could the FSF admins somehow add it as a special case? Otherwise I reiterate my proposal from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg01209.html I think it would be acceptable to make the gateway one-way, mail->news only. I don't think people need to be able to report bugs via usenet. For those who want to do so, gmane exists.