Brian May wrote: >>>>>>"Bernd" == Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> writes: > > > Bernd> I think it is a good idea. Even if we dont move to a web > Bernd> based system there is no harm to support us web browser > Bernd> users a bit :) > > Bernd> And consider especially the end-user. > > Also consider forwarding bugs to upstream, etc. They may not > understand our BTS system, or how to access the full details of the > bug. > > I often mention the URL by entering it manually, but this is > potentially error prone (one day I suspect I will end up accidently > cutting & pasting either the wrong bug id, or > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org.au/123456> or > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/#123456>; all of these are wrong). > > The downside though is that this would require the BTS software to > edit the email message, deal correctly with MIME attachments, etc. I > think mailing list software does this correctly though(?), so it > should be possible. > Apparently, (as I mentioned in a previous post) someone came up with this ages ago: http://bugs.debian.org/9596 It is even tagged with a patch, though that only happened a couple of months ago. Hopefully, the fix will be integrated soon. I don't think that the problem you mention is a bug hurdle, though. People constantly send signed message to the Debian list and the mailing list software appends the boilerplate footer to every message without b0rking the signatures. > Another option would be to add-yet-another-cool-macro to > Gnus/the-kitchen-sink... errr.. I mean Gnus/emacs... that somehow does > the task automatically if > I-can-remember-the-stupid-sequence-of-keys-I-invent-to-activate-it, > but I don't have the time or patience to learn that > awful-programming-language-that-requires-lots-of-nested-brackets... errr... I > mean LISP... right now. ;-) > Sorry. I'm not an emacs user :-) > However, this won't work anyway for people stuck using lesser MUAs > (e.g. mutt), fake MUAs (e.g. evolution), or worse (e.g. anything > written by or for Microsoft). Personally, I use Mozilla Thunderbunny (when will they get a proper reply-to-list button? is it that hard?) at home and Horde when I am at school. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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