From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: please review bug #13141 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:20:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20130119232015.GA517@acm.acm> References: <415AF94149E240B7BCB28128E45D3135@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358638032 22554 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2013 23:27:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:27:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13141@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 20 00:27:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Twhov-0000aB-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:27:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Twhoe-0000MX-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:27:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47179) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwhoZ-0000A5-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwhoY-0005rb-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:58721 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TwhoX-0005rK-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 70405 invoked by uid 3782); 19 Jan 2013 23:27:00 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9557F3A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.127.58]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:26:59 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 558 invoked by uid 1000); 19 Jan 2013 23:20:15 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <415AF94149E240B7BCB28128E45D3135@us.oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156486 Archived-At: Hi, Drew. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:10:09PM -0800, Drew Adams wrote: > This is about the info that gets automatically added to bug reports. > Stefan granted that most of that info is anyway useless, to him at least. > Jambunathan suggested a Boolean option to skip such info altogether. > I provided a patch that lets users customize which info to include. > Glenn simply tagged the bug `wontfix', saying "There is no need for such > complexity." > The patch is straightforward. Please reconsider it. > Why not let users set the behavior they want for this? I have to side with Glenn here. We need to make Bug reporters' jobs as simple as possible. Sadly, there is a tendency for things which one _can_ configure to become things that one _must_ configure - we know all about this in Emacs - which would be most unfriendly for novice bug reporters. Let's keep this as simple as possible. > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13141#43 -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).