From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The fixes-bug field Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:25:22 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <52D84032.1060706@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20140116141315.CA3BE380835@snark.thyrsus.com> <20140116163011.GC17303@thyrsus.com> <83d2jr3ly9.fsf@gnu.org> <52D82B2F.5070007@cs.ucla.edu> <94vbxj4u5j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389903936 9007 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 20:25:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 21:25:43 2014 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 1W3tVW-0008TB-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:25:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3tVV-0005mY-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42406) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3tVL-0005mG-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3tVF-0001e2-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:40008) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3tVE-0001dm-MC; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B040439E8017; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qRAElOawU0PF; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1518D39E8016; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:25:23 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <94vbxj4u5j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:168577 Archived-At: On 01/16/2014 11:13 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Imagine GNU switches to a new tracker a year from now, and it takes over > the bugs.gnu.org alias. Would the above url still be valid, and still > point to the right report? Who knows... Nobody knows the future for certain, but I'd be quite surprised if the short URLs stopped working any time soon. They're too-commonly used in other GNU projects.