Re: pretest, devel and bug lists

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > I think that is a misunderstanding.  There are two questions here!
 > 
 > 1. Whether messages people send to bug-gnu-emacs should generate bug
 > tracker entries.  (And likewise for emacs-pretest-bug.)
 > 
 > I said nothing about that, but I think that both lists should do so.
 > 
 > 2. Whether the bug tracker should send mail to bug-gnu-emacs.
 > 
 > That is the question I was talking about before.
 > I think it should NOT send any mail to bug-gnu-emacs, or
 > to emacs-pretest-bug.

What does that mean?  The thread generated by a bug report is presumably
a mixture of technical discussion and admin related to the tracker.  How
does someone following bug-gnu-emacs know that a bug report has been closed
if he only sees part of the thread.

 >     Using emacs-pretest-bug for the bug tracker
 > 
 > "Using" in this context confuses the two questions,
 > since it fails to distinguish the two kinds of use.

That's probably because I am confused.

 > I urge you to avoid that wording.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob