From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pretest, devel and bug lists Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 22:07:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <007201c8c038$e401e490$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <483C7BC7.3030700@gnu.org> <18493.52214.798172.380836@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18495.31229.262055.411087@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212199822 29294 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2008 02:10:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 02:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, drew.adams@oracle.com, jasonr@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 31 04:11:03 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 1K2GYf-0002uQ-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2008 04:11:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2GXt-0002yT-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2GXE-0002em-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2GXD-0002eO-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56794 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2GXD-0002eG-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42901) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2GXD-0007WA-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K2GVQ-0007VM-Us; Fri, 30 May 2008 22:07:40 -0400 In-reply-to: <18495.31229.262055.411087@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Fri, 30 May 2008 15:52:29 +1200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:98102 Archived-At: What does that mean? The thread generated by a bug report is presumably a mixture of technical discussion and admin related to the tracker. That is exactly what I do not want. I do not want to get all the canned administrative messages, and I don't think anyone else does either. The person who reported a bug, and the persons who send commands to the bug tracker about it, probably do want to get the administrative messages about that bug. But bug-gnu-emacs should not get them. How does someone following bug-gnu-emacs know that a bug report has been closed if he only sees part of the thread. People usually send a message saying "Yes, that change fixed it." You would get the information that way, and you would not need the canned message. If he wants to see those messages, he can subscribe to a new list where they are sent. That is easy.