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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug trackers
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:07:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8x178gr3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226212354.GB7406@rzlab.ucr.edu> (Don Armstrong's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:54 -0800")

> Ok; creating more packages is easy, but I'll have to modify some stuff
> to create a default maintainer address for missing packages.  I'll try
> to get to that later today.

Thanks.

>> I'm glad I can use non-existent packages like that. This will allow
>> us to try-and-use packages before knowing who should be the
>> corresponding maintainer (or maybe even without ever intending to
>> assign a maintainer address to it).
>> 
>> I see that `index-packages' does list those non-existent packages,
>> so other than not having any maintainer is there some downside to
>> them?

> That and the "gee, I don't know about that package, you shouldn't
> assign bugs to them" message.

Indeed, in our context, debbugs shouldn't discourage reporting bugs to
packages just on the ground that they don't have a maintainer (of
course, that's only true if/when we get the above mentioned "default
maintainer address").

>> Yes. You can subscribe to them via
>> http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=emacs

> Ok; Stephen indicated that installing such a handler directly in
> mailman was superior, so I'll hold off unless the gnu.org mailman
> administrators think differently or won't have time to do this
> reasonably soon.

I guess we can wait a few more days, indeed.  But the sooner the merrier.
 

        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 23:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <0802170200.m1H208hu013886@localhost.localdomain>
2008-02-18  5:25 ` Bug trackers Don Armstrong
2008-02-18 17:30   ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18 23:28     ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-19 23:09       ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-19 23:18         ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-19 23:40           ` Karl Fogel
2008-02-21  2:00           ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-21 22:28             ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-23  2:00               ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-19 23:27         ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-20 16:44           ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-21  1:49             ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-21 21:24               ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-26 19:12               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 19:34                 ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-26 20:00                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 21:23                     ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-26 23:07                       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-02-26 20:02                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-27 16:08                   ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-26 21:01                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 21:17                   ` Don Armstrong
2008-02-26 21:25                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 21:51                     ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-26 23:00                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-26 23:02                   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-26 23:04                     ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-14  4:42 Richard Stallman
2008-02-15  2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-16  5:53   ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-17  2:00     ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-16  8:40   ` Tassilo Horn
2008-02-16  9:16     ` Yoni Rabkin
2008-02-16 16:20       ` Tassilo Horn
2008-02-16 16:12     ` Manoj Srivastava
2008-02-16 16:53       ` Tassilo Horn

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