GNU bug report logs - #54724
No reply "mailto:" links on bugreport pages

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: No reply "mailto:" links on bugreport pages
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 18:04:02 +0700

Package: debbugs.gnu.org

Upstream debbugs instance has "reply" link for each message of a bug 
report, see e.g.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956712

It is significantly less trivial to respond to particular message having 
a bug bug report at debbugs.gnu.org open in a browser, see e.g.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54551

Unfortunately even after downloading a message in mbox format it is 
necessary to edit addressed, however it allows to add In-Reply-To field 
to the composed response.

Could you, please, backport "reply" upstream feature to the code for the 
debbugs.gnu.org instance?

Message #8 received at 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54724: No reply "mailto:" links on bugreport pages
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:11:59 -0400

Max Nikulin wrote:

> Upstream debbugs instance has "reply" link for each message of a bug
> report, see e.g.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956712

This was intentionally removed from debbugs.gnu.org to reduce spam.

Message #13 received at 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54724: No reply "mailto:" links on bugreport pages
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 22:59:53 +0700

On 05/04/2022 22:11, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Max Nikulin wrote:
> 
>> Upstream debbugs instance has "reply" link for each message of a bug
>> report, see e.g.
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956712
> 
> This was intentionally removed from debbugs.gnu.org to reduce spam.

lists.gnu.org uses a form and redirection using a backend script to get 
actual mailto: link, so web pages does not contain full email addresses. 
Does it help?

Message #16 received at 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Max Nikulin <manikulin <at> gmail.com>
To: 54724 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54724: No reply "mailto:" links on bugreport pages
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 23:38:01 +0700

On 05/04/2022 22:11, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Max Nikulin wrote:
> 
>> Upstream debbugs instance has "reply" link for each message of a bug
>> report, see e.g.
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956712
> 
> This was intentionally removed from debbugs.gnu.org to reduce spam.

A couple of additional considerations:

If you are really worrying concerning spam, you may add rel="nofollow" 
to each hyperlink found in user messages. It is an upstream issue
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009036
but it seems Debian administrators can deal better with spam, e.g. mail 
lists are not premoderated and allow post from non-subscribed users. So 
this issue may have higher priority for debbugs.gnu.org than for upstream.

Just as for the debian server, default file name to open a particular 
message though "mbox" link has .mbox suffix, not ".eml" one. As a result 
there is a problem to open such file in thunderbird.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009181
For bugs.debian.org it is mostly a cosmetic problem since they have 
"reply" links. For the debbugs.gnu.org it is noticeable inconvenience 
for users.

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