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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Don't report new bugs for Rmail??
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:54:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1vujdtut.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090131211929.GT4175@volo.donarmstrong.com>

> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:19:29 -0800
> From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
> 
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:19, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > > Sorry, I'm not following: if there's no Rmail package, how come
> > > > the bug tracker finds bugs by that package? What am I missing?
> 
> Because there are bugs assigned to that package.

But you just said that a package named "rmail" does not exist, didn't
you?

> If rmail (or anything else) is going to be used as a valid package to
> assign bugs to, it should have a maintainer, and whoever wants it
> created should tell me that they want it created and what the
> maintainer is.

Rmail's maintainer is "FSF".  Which means that Emacs maintainers are
collectively responsible for maintaining Rmail.

> > Fine, but the "don't submit bug reports" request is misleading and
> > should be removed or rephrased, IMO.
> 
> Bug reports against packages that don't have a maintainer shouldn't be
> submitted

Well, that request can easily be interpreted as meaning that bug
reports against Rmail are not welcome.  I think this is not what we
want to say.

> In this case, the error is that no one has asked for the rmail
> package to be created.

It's IMO inconsistency to allow bugs be filed against a package that
doesn't exist.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-31 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-31 10:21 Don't report new bugs for Rmail?? Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-31 10:44 ` Don Armstrong
2009-01-31 11:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-31 11:28     ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-01-31 12:47       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-31 21:19         ` Don Armstrong
2009-01-31 21:54           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-01-31 22:24             ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-01  4:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-01  4:33                 ` Don Armstrong
     [not found]                   ` <utz7ec9r6.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-02-01 21:14                     ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-02  1:47                     ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02  2:20                       ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02  2:22                         ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02  3:23                           ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02 18:48                         ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-02 19:18                           ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-02 20:30                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-02 21:16                             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-02 20:26                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-02 21:17                           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-01  6:22               ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-01 11:17                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-01 20:34                 ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-01 21:15               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-01  1:00           ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-01  4:02             ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-01 11:15               ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-02-01 11:18                 ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]           ` <E1LTl7o-0005Ea-FN@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-02-02  7:36             ` Don Armstrong
2009-02-03  1:43               ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier

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