From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com>
Cc: 69646@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69646: [PATCH] Have insert 'submit-emacs-patch' maintainers into X-Debbugs-Cc
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 09:00:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6hfdbkg.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734t0s7j8.fsf@betli.tmit.bme.hu> (Felician Nemeth's message of "Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:06:19 +0100")
Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com> writes:
>> Here's a suggestion, to have the submit-emacs-patch command
>> automatically ping maintainers, in case they are not following the bug
>> tracker. Basically it goes through all the files and extracts the
>> information from the Maintainer: header.
>
> Do I understand correctly that the maintainer is detected by searching
> the local copy of Emacs, and not the always up-to-date remote version?
Yes, it uses a local checkout, but this should be fine considering that
if someone is writing a patch, they /should/ be using a relatively
up-to-date checkout to begin with.
> I'm not sure this makes a difference in practice, but a possible
> alternative approach is to define two packages in the bug report. For
> example:
>
> Package: emacs,emacs-eglot
>
> Then if the file "/etc/debbugs/Maintainers" on fencepost has a line
> "emacs-eglot joaotavora@gmail.com", debbugs will CC João as well.
>
> This approach might be more complicated than yours, but would possibly
> work with outdated working copies as well. Or might not work at all.
> I've come up with it based on the file emacs/admin/notes/bugtracker, and
> this: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/debbugs-ug.html
I don't know too much about Debbugs, to be fair. But I assumed that one
cannot just arbitrarily declare packages, or am I mistaken?
--
Philip Kaludercic on peregrine
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-08 15:47 bug#69646: [PATCH] Have insert 'submit-emacs-patch' maintainers into X-Debbugs-Cc Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-08 16:04 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-08 16:38 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-08 16:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-03-08 17:41 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-03-08 17:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-08 22:06 ` Felician Nemeth
2024-03-09 8:23 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-09 16:33 ` Felician Nemeth
2024-03-09 16:40 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-09 9:00 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
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