From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Wells Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:23:15 +0100 Message-ID: <86iqwfen64.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: Joe Wells , 389@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213217291 5935 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2008 20:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:48:11 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 22:48:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K6XFH-00073S-S1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:48:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6XET-0007T4-QG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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It appears that if e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs contains =E2=80=9Cbug#XYZ=E2=80= =9D in the subject, it is added to the bug log for bug number XYZ, while otherwise a fresh bug number is allocated and the e-mail is added to the bug log for the new bug report. It appears that bug-gnu-emacs (a.k.a. the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup) has been taken over completely by the bug tracking system. The bug-gnu-emacs mailing list can no longer be used for meta-level discussions about bug handling. Is this a feature or a bug? Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)? I don't think the new way is necessarily bad, but it seems to have happened without much community discussion. Please discuss this. --=20 Joe --=20 Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278.