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Re: bug#13141: please review bug #13141
From: |
Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: |
Re: bug#13141: please review bug #13141 |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:35:24 +0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) |
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> This is about the info that gets automatically added to bug reports.
>
> Stefan granted that most of that info is anyway useless, to him at least.
> Jambunathan suggested a Boolean option to skip such info altogether.
>
> I provided a patch that lets users customize which info to include.
>
> Glenn simply tagged the bug `wontfix', saying "There is no need for such
> complexity."
>
>
> The patch is straightforward. Please reconsider it.
> Why not let users set the behavior they want for this?
Personally, I disagree that the user should choose what information to
include. The report goes to Emacs maintainers, so they should pick the
always-useful parts (say, the version, bzr revision and build options) and
leave out the noise. While possibly still providing interactive commands
allowing to insert the additional information in a follow-up email.
I also think this is one of the parts of Emacs where backwards
compatibility is the least important, so it's odd that the bug reporting
interface hasn't changed much in years.
- Re: bug#13141: please review bug #13141,
Dmitry Gutov <=