Re: Bug trackers

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> AFAIK the bug-tracker will only know into which discussion to place
>> a reply if the reply is to a message that comes *from* the bugtracker,
>> rather than merely being a reply to a message that the bugtracker has
>> also received (i.e. I don't think debbugs will track Message-Ids in
>> order to classify incoming replies).
>> 
>> So people would/will need to subscribe to
>> emacsbugs@lists.donarmstrong.com and discuss things there, instead of
>> discussing them on bug-gnu-emacs.
>> 

> OK, are we only talking about the test period here? Long term, I think we
> should arrange for the emacs-bug and emacs-pretest-bug aliases to feed into
> the bug tracker only, and all messages to subscribers should be sent by the
> bugtracker with whatever identifying information it needs added to the
> subject line. This will probably take some setting up to get right though,
> so I can understand not wanting to deal with it now before we've decided
> that debbugs meets our needs.

Yes, this is the testing period.


        Stefan