From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yoni Rabkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO item: obsolete bug-reporting commands Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:18:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87k5kos00u.fsf@rabkins.net> References: <87y7962obp.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204269641 11619 80.91.229.12 (29 Feb 2008 07:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:20:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 29 08:21:06 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 1JUzYG-0008Vt-2r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:21:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUzXj-000123-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUzXf-00011x-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUzXd-000119-9O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUzXd-000115-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:20:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgw.comm.net.il ([193.238.208.251]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUzXc-0003qo-LB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:20:25 -0500 Original-Received: from rabkins.net (radkins.co.il [193.238.208.83] (may be forged)) by mailgw.comm.net.il (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m1T6Ax0E029726 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from ardbeg.rabkins.net [62.56.252.105] by rabkins.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.15) id A2A13A30120; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:22:09 +0200 X-Ethics: Use GNU In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:04:37 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:90840 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>> The TODO file says: "Check for any included packages that define >>> obsolete bug-reporting commands. Change them to use report-emacs-bug." > >> I think I added that. All I had in mind was, some packages (eg >> supercite.el) still directed bug reports to somewhere else, even >> though they had not been developed outside of Emacs for a long time. > >> It's good to find those and update them to send bug reports to the >> normal Emacs address. > > Yes, that's desirable. > >> Or perhaps this policy will change if and when a bug database comes >> into use. So the short answer is that it's probably best to wait and >> see what happens with the current debbugs experiment before doing much >> about this. > > Indeed, we may want to revisit this in the future, but in any case, it's > useful to redirect report to the normal Emacs address if the claimed > maintainer is not the maintainer any more: for those problems, we don't > have any reason to wait. I can email the maintainers of those packages and ask them where they would rather have bug reports sent. It may be the case that some do not reply, in which case I can resend my email a week later. After two weeks of no answer I can change those to the emacsbug address. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"