Re: ANNC: New Debbugs
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 12:57:17AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>
> > subscribe bugnr email
> >
> > and
> >
> > unsubscribe bugnr email
>
> Already planned. Some of pts will be no longer needed.
Nice!
> > *) Create packagename@ alias.
> > - When an email gets sent to packagename@bugs.debian.org a bug number
> > is create, just as when sent to submit@.
> > This way a new user would not have to learn to write pseudo headers.
> > The pseudo header can still be accepted but is not needed (i.e. optional)
> > to indicate which package to send to.
> > - submit@ can still be used but is not needed.
>
> Hmm. Interested idea. But perhaps those people should use reportbug or bug.
Yes maybe. But sometime (even I had problems using bug and reportbug
before I learnt the EMAIL env variable) such tools can be hard to use,
at least for a novice. I have not looked at them for half a year or
more but "back then" they was a bit hard.
> > *) When email is sent to the user and mainainer about a bugnr, the
> > Reply-To: field should be set to bugnr@ only.
>
> Just a matter of editting of templates.
Ok.
> > - Users who send information about the bug should automatically be subscribed
> > to the bug number.
>
> Er, no.
Ok, but at least the initial reporter must be automatically subscribed to the bug
in order to get all the information to the bts. If not, the reply-to header
will not be set properly.
> > > * Make use of pgp/gpg sigs on mails, to enable various commands. For
> > > example, this could be used by the Release Manager to tweak certain
> > > tags/status bits, but disallow these commands for others.
> > > * Per email/maintainer/package flags. This could be used to keep the
> > > acks from being sent(#174503).
> >
> > That would be a nice thing. The subscription system above would give a
> > good infrastructure on this, right? The initial submitter gets an
> > acc (when sending to packagename@ and submit@). In the rest of the time
> > he/she will get the email back (with some extra text in top/bottom maybe).
>
> What you are discussing and what I am discussing are not related.
Ok, maybe I was misunderstanding you. :)
Regards,
// Ola
>
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