Re: Future of gccbug

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 3:01 PM, gnat-dev@buzco.nyct.net wrote:

> On 03-11-07 14:28:53, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> [ BIG snip}
>
> | Um, can you guys please notify me when things about Bugzilla annoy 
> you?
> | Even if I don't do something immediately, I do keep track of input 
> and
> | whatnot when making changes to it, and determining what way things
> | should work.
>
> === End quoted text ===
>
> OK, you asked for it! :)
>
> Having mail coming from bugzilla, requiring replies to bugzilla, on
> +any+ other list makes replying properly a pain. A couple of days ago I
> sent a bunch of stuff to gcc-bugs thinking it would get to bugzilla

There's no easy way to do this with our current list software, AFAIK.

If we could make it ignore replies to gcc-bugs that aren't from 
gcc-bugzilla (ignore as in not let them go to the list), and redirect 
them to gcc-bugzilla, everything would be happy, methinks.

>

> and
> didn't realize it until hours later. End result was that the stuff got
> to bugzilla out-of order and late and showed up on gcc-bugs +twice+,
> once for the original submissions and again for the re-submissions to
> bugzilla.
>
> I find the mail and WWW interfaces +both+ useful, but it would be nicer
> if bugzilla mail +visibly+ came from bugzilla.

It does.
It's got a from of gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org

People want to know who made the changes, that's why the "quoted name" 
is the person's email address.

There's some "proper" way to do this with "Sender" and "Envelope-From", 
but no email client i know of handles them right.

All told, if someone who understands the list software can work with 
us, ..