Re: Viewing patches in bugzilla just got easier and nicer

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Olaf Hering wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
> > >
> > > | The patch reader software has now been installed.
> > >
> > > Any chance to have bugzilla threads messages correctly, as already
> > > requested in the past?
> >
> > This isn't possible without saving a lot more information to the
> > database than we do now, which is nothing (if you look at the msgids,
> > you'll see they follow a certain scheme, which is how it generates the
> > references and in-reply-to headers)
> >
> > In particular, we'd have to guess at which comment you were replying to,
> > etc.
>
> You just generate and remember the message id of the New: mail.
> Then put this id into the References: line of each added comment.
> This will generate a sort-of threading, each bug is grouped together.

We already do the equivalent of this.
It doesn't generate the threading Gaby wants.

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