From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `report-emacs-bug' prompting rework Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:37 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87lioapk26.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87vcney2in.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328901963 15184 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2012 19:26:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:26:03 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 10 20:26:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6b-0007Or-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:26:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6a-0001EZ-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:26:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6U-0001Db-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6Q-0006uv-P9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6Q-0006uj-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rvw6M-0007Dx-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net ([76.28.40.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-28-40-19.hsd1.vt.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7vbrjoeSaQ2kbnw5GbXM9VZ7D0Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:148462 Archived-At: On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:19:44 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: LI> As previously discussed (like, a year ago), the prompting sequence when LI> sending bug reports, especially from "emacs -Q", was kinda LI> unsatisfactory. (The main point was that it required that you had a LI> valid-ish From header, even though you might end up sending the message LI> through mailclient.el, which will then just rewrite your From header, LI> anyway.) LI> Fixing this required a bit of refactoring of the sendmail.el/Message LI> setup functions, but hopefully I didn't screw up anything too badly. LI> And the prompting sequence looks OK to me now, but please let me know if LI> anything is wonky. I still think Emacs bugs should be simply reported through a HTTP (REST or whatever) call. That would cover the most users and we can use confirmation e-mails to avoid spamming. Ted