From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bug trackers Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:54 -0800 Message-ID: <20080226212354.GB7406@rzlab.ucr.edu> References: <20080218052546.GK13020@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080218232829.GM5438@volo.donarmstrong.com> <20080219232732.GC18902@jax.donarmstrong.com> <20080221014954.GF23349@rzlab.ucr.edu> <20080226193408.GM5438@volo.donarmstrong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204062123 25986 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2008 21:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:42:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 22:42:26 2008 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 1JU7YW-0000u5-LV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JU7Y0-00053H-MQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:41:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JU7HM-00069z-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JU7HL-00069F-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JU7HL-000697-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JU7HK-0003Yy-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (archimedes.ucr.edu [138.23.92.79]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id m1QLNuhO003552 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:57 -0800 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 9267 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:23:54 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:90534 Archived-At: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Yes, that's just a setting in one of the configuration files. [The > > list of known packages is just a set of {packagename,maintainer} > > pairs.] > > Then please do that. > OK, good. Since we don't know what packages we'll end up using, > having just a single catch-all address will take care of it for now. Ok; creating more packages is easy, but I'll have to modify some stuff to create a default maintainer address for missing packages. I'll try to get to that later today. > I'm glad I can use non-existent packages like that. This will allow > us to try-and-use packages before knowing who should be the > corresponding maintainer (or maybe even without ever intending to > assign a maintainer address to it). > > I see that `index-packages' does list those non-existent packages, > so other than not having any maintainer is there some downside to > them? That and the "gee, I don't know about that package, you shouldn't assign bugs to them" message. > Yes. You can subscribe to them via > http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs Ok; Stephen indicated that installing such a handler directly in mailman was superior, so I'll hold off unless the gnu.org mailman administrators think differently or won't have time to do this reasonably soon. > > 1: In the ack message you received, there should have been a warning > > about how the package didn't have a maintainer and probably isn't the > > right package; > > It looks like a very handy "misfeature" for our use case ;-) Yeah, it's easy enough to code around, but it ends up being useful almost everywhere. > PS: By the way, are you interested in this as an Emacs user as well, > or only as a debbugs developper? I use emacs, but my primary interest is in it as a debbugs developer and hopefully getting more people interested in developing for debbugs too. Don Armstrong -- ou could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry. -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu