GNU bug report logs - #389
can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Joe Wells <jbw <at> macs.hw.ac.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:23:15 +0100

It is no longer possible to send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it
being assigned a bug number.

It appears that if e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs contains “bug#XYZ” in the
subject, it is added to the bug log for bug number XYZ, while
otherwise a fresh bug number is allocated and the e-mail is added to
the bug log for the new bug report.

It appears that bug-gnu-emacs (a.k.a. the gnu.emacs.bug newsgroup) has
been taken over completely by the bug tracking system.  The
bug-gnu-emacs mailing list can no longer be used for meta-level
discussions about bug handling.

Is this a feature or a bug?

Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?

I don't think the new way is necessarily bad, but it seems to have
happened without much community discussion.

Please discuss this.

-- 
Joe


-- 
Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.

Message #10 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Joe Wells <jbw <at> macs.hw.ac.uk>, 389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being
 assigned a bug number
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:44:10 +0100

Joe Wells wrote:
> Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
> ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
>   

It should only be used for discussion of bugs. That has always been its 
purpose.

Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Joe Wells <jbw <at> macs.hw.ac.uk>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being assigned a bug number
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:29:35 +0100

Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Joe Wells wrote:
>> Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
>> ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
>
> It should only be used for discussion of bugs. That has always been
> its purpose.

What about discussion about the discussion of bugs (meta-level
discussion, like this one)?  Where does that go?

-- 
Joe


-- 
Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.

Message #36 received at 389 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Joe Wells <jbw <at> macs.hw.ac.uk>
Cc: 389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#389: can not send e-mail to bug-gnu-emacs without it being
 assigned a bug number
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:53:47 +0100

Joe Wells wrote:
> Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>   
>> Joe Wells wrote:
>>     
>>> Should it still be possible for bug-gnu-emacs to be used as an
>>> ordinary mailing list (and newsgroup)?
>>>       
>> It should only be used for discussion of bugs. That has always been
>> its purpose.
>>     
>
> What about discussion about the discussion of bugs (meta-level
> discussion, like this one)?  Where does that go?
>   

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