Re: which bug messages should be sent where?

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Jason Rumney wrote:
> I agree, and the messages sent to bug-gnu-emacs should essentially
> be the same messages as before (ie no control messages, and done
> messages should be the raw message as the developer sent it, not
> prepended with standard messages and the original bug report.

I can swap these around for messages sent to the maintainer and
mailing list so the -done is first, and the original message is at the
end so the informative bit is the first thing that is seen.

> The way I think the mail forwarding should work is this:
>
>
> bug-gnu-emacs incoming mail address + numbered addresses for existing bugs
>            |
>            V
>      bug tracker
>            |
>            V
> bug-gnu-emacs mailing list and newsgroup

This is how it actually works.

> emacs-pretest-bug incoming mail address + numbered addresses for  
> existing bugs
>            |
>            V
>      bug tracker
>            |
>            V
>  emacs-devel mailing list

[I didn't set this up, so I'm not sure.]



Don Armstrong

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