Re: RFE: send-pr templating

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 22:04 08.03.2003 -0500, Chris Pepper wrote:
>         send-pr would be enhanced significantly if it could pick up 
> default values for specific fields from a file, such as ~/.send-pr. I'd 
> like to specify my preferred email address on From: and Reply-To: lines, 
> and perhaps Organization:, so I don't have to fix them on each PR I file 
> (normally against FreeBSD, which uses GNATS & send-pr 3.113).
>
>         Additionally, it would be helpful if I could set defaults for 
> other fields, like Category (usually docs for me), Class (normally 
> doc-bug <[ sw-bug | doc-bug | change-request | update | maintainer-update 
> ] (one line)> for me), and Severity (normally non-critical for my bug reports).
>
>         Alternatively, it would be helpful if I could specify a full 
> template file, although in this case I'd have to be sure not to lose sync 
> if the bundled template was changed.

It sounds like the template functionality of the GNATS 4.0 send-pr as well 
as the ORGANIZATION and NAME environment varibales would help you. Please 
have a look at 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/doc/4_0_beta_snapshot/using-send-pr.html#using%20send-pr 
and 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/doc/4_0_beta_snapshot/send-pr-from-the-shell.html#send-pr%20from%20the%20shell

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer