From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug tracker woes/misunderstanding
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:19:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvboz64g78.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8AE8FB8BD0E445BF9DDB1B76516A292E@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 13 May 2011 09:54:08 -0700")
>> It only works thanks to the few sanity checks we perform when
>> receiving "new" bug-reports.
> Well, thank goodness you do that. Creating a new bug report each time
> someone hits `Reply' would be pretty brain-dead (i.e., not too sane).
That's only when someone hits "reply" on a message he received via Cc.
> That was my guess too. So the answer is to not remove "RE:".
> I imagine it is OK to add "OT", but not to replace "RE:" with "OT:".
Actually, what you should do for such OT posts is to not send them to
the bug-tracker, since they don't belong there.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 14:30 bug tracker woes/misunderstanding Drew Adams
2011-05-13 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-13 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 16:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-13 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-13 16:54 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-05-13 18:25 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 17:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-05-13 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-13 18:02 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-13 19:11 ` Drew Adams
2011-05-13 19:24 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-05-13 19:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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