Re: Mail that shuld not be sent here

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Richard M Stallman wrote:
> Here are some examples of the sort of message which the bug tracker
> is sending to emacs-devel or bug-gnu-emacs. I think it should be
> fixed to stop sending these messages to those lists.

The first corresponds to the bug actually being closed; it isn't a
canned mail, but the concatenation of the original report, the message
that caused the bug to be closed, and an expanatory text that says
what has been done.

> Your message dated Thu, 29 May 2008 19:13:02 -0400
> with message-id <address@hidden>
> and subject line Re: Testing debbugs setup -- please ignore
> has caused the Emacs bug report #210,
> regarding Testing debbugs setup -- please ignore
> to be marked as done.

[...]

> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4)
> X-GNU-Loop: 1
> 
> This is a test message. Kindly ignore it please. Thanks!

[...]
 
> close test bug.

[...]

The second message is the ack from the control bot, which is the only
way you'd know whether or not this bug had been closed, marked
wontfix, reopened, unarchived, etc.

> Processing commands for address@hidden:
> 
> > tag 302 wontfix
> bug#302: compilation problems on mac os x
> There were no tags set.
> Tags added: wontfix

All of these can be easily excluded using procmail or similar by
filtering out messages with X-Emacs-Pr-Message: closed and
X-Emacs-Pr-Message: transcript respectively.[1]

However, in my experience, they're all information that people
involved in tracking bugs really want to know about, which is why
they're sent out by default, and why I suggest keeping them on the
same mailing list as the other messages.


Don Armstrong

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* ^X-Emacs-Pr-Message: (transcript|closed)
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