Re: Emacs pretest bug reports

[Glenn Morris]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> There is a suggestion that we make emacs-pretest-bug an alias for
> emacs-devel.  That means pretest bug reports will come here first.

I think that in principle there is some benefit to having a separate
emacs-pretest-bug, eg it makes it easy to see all bugs in one place
(in the absence of a bug tracker).

In practice, it's pretty broken, because:

i) some people report bugs to emacs-devel

ii) you in particular seem to like forwarding bug reports from
emacs-pretest-bug to emacs-devel, which potentially leads to
duplication of effort (eg when eedjits like me fail to notice this and
followup to the original bug report).


Would there be any use to messages that come from the
emacs-pretest-bug list being tagged (eg [emacs-pretest-bug]) in the
subject line? Again, I'm thinking of an easy way to see all bugs (and
again, it's broken by i) above).


Would you do this for gnu-emacs-bug too?