Hi, [Full quote of the intitial message for the benefit of the BTS archive.] > On 24/09/14 11:46, Neil Williams wrote: >> This is a particularly common problem with team maintenance packages or >> with psuedo-packages (like release.debian.org) where a lot of people >> may be on the list. >> >> Please always include the package name / topic in the subject of the >> email or, as a matter of last resort, in the first few lines of the >> content of the message. >> >> I see a lot of email of the type: >> >> Subject: ping >> Body: Any update on this issue? >> EOF >> >> Umm, *which* issue? >> >> For anyone to know what is going on, it means that every subscriber has >> to either ignore the email or go to the bug report manually and work >> out which package or which type of request is being made for a >> pseudo-package. >> >> I know, this only goes to a subset of bug submitters and I've done this >> myself on occasion (and sworn at myself when I get the ack) but can >> people from this list *please* include something specific to the actual >> package/topic in the Subject of emails to bug reports? At the very >> least, something in the first few lines of the content saying what you >> are pinging? Or convince the BTS maintainers that #744339 is actually worth fixing (the subjects already get mangled to add the bug number one can already see in the To: field anyway, adding the package name on top or instead of it wouldn’t be such a bad move IMHO). Or educate ourselves to dig into the X-Debian-PR-Package header as advised in the bug report… Regards David
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