From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to reply to bug reports Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:11:55 +0200 Message-ID: <489C461B.8030404@gmx.at> References: <489C3395.2000103@gmx.at> <87iqubhe7w.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218201045 31689 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 13:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 15:11:36 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 1KRRkg-0003Ct-9s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRRjk-0005yB-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRRjf-0005xl-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRRjc-0005uF-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52172 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRRjc-0005uA-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:50874) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRRjb-0004Kb-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:10:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Aug 2008 13:10:21 -0000 Original-Received: from 62-47-36-207.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.36.207]) [62.47.36.207] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 08 Aug 2008 15:10:21 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18BCnZPgEIBThrt3vfuO9/DxTKMZdsvobFlwLehMG Z9upECIPFmrsyY User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87iqubhe7w.fsf@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.77 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:102201 Archived-At: >>If I do not cc bug-gnu-emacs, my reply won't appear there and chances to >>get feedback from other developers are low as I noticed a couple of >>times. If I do cc bug-gnu-emacs I apparently file a new bug report as >>already happened twice this week. > > You should CC the bug number, i.e. NNN@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, but > not bug-gnu-emacs. This will avoid opening new bug reports as well as > duplicate messages on bug-gnu-emacs. That's what I did initially. For older bug reports there's hardly a chance that the OP replies or applies a patch :-( martin