Re: bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 08:57 +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Paul Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> PS> If you want a bug report to be filed and acknowledged, then you want:
> PS> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=make
> Thanks for answering! Well that's not the advertised way to submit bugs.
> You advertise address@hidden

Both the mailing list and Savannah are discussed on the make home page,
but you're right, this should be made more clear.  It does clearly say
that bug-make is a "main discussion list", however, and so I wouldn't
expect people to think that messages to that list would become bug
reports and automatically acknowledged, a la Debian's BTS etc.

> PS> The FSF does not use an email-based bug tracker, like Debian; we use
> PS> Savannah.
> OK, but Savannah should then be made to send acknowledgments by default.
> The power users could easily adjust some of their settings to turn them back 
> off.

I believe that if you file a bug with Savannah it will send you email
both when you file it and whenever it is updated.

If something about Savannah isn't working the way you want, you should
file a bug against Savannah itself (the Savannah project on Savannah).
I don't have any ability to modify or fix the Savannah behavior.

Cheers!

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