Re: pretest, devel and bug lists

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 21:45:56 +1200 Nick Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Stephen Berman writes:
>  > On Tue, 27 May 2008 20:49:07 -0400 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > 
>  > >> If things sent to emacs-pretest-bug are being fed into a bug tracker
>  > >> and sent to bug-gnu-emacs, then I would say there is no need for
>  > >> copies to _also_ be sent to emacs-devel.
>  > >
>  > > AFAIK messages sent to bug-gnu-emacs pass through the bug-tracker, but
>  > > not messages sent to emacs-pretest-bug (which are redirected to
>  > > emacs-devel instead).
>  > 
>  > Since (and because) this redirection was instituted I have usually sent
>  > bug reports directly to emacs-devel, except where I thought it was more
>  > helpful or convenient to use report-emacs-bug.
>  > 
>  > > I think this should be changed so that messages sent to
>  > > emacs-pretest-bug do not go to emacs-devel any more but go to the
>  > > bug-tracker instead.
>  > 
>  > If this is done, should *no* bug reports be sent any longer to
>  > emacs-devel (and if they were, would that lower their chances of getting
>  > attended to)?  It might be helpful for a maintainer to issue a policy
>  > statement (preferably clearly recognizable as such) about this.
>
> Bug reports for unreleased versions of Emacs should go to emacs-devel
> and those for released versions to bug-gnu-emacs.  This happens
> automatically if you use M-x report-emacs-bug (since emacs-pretest-bug
> is an alias for emacs-devel).

This is the status quo, but I understand Stefan to be favoring changing
this, and that is why I asked for a policy statement.

Steve Berman