Re: Subject line processing in Gnats 4.0

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 23:01 12.12.01 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "DB" == Dirk Bergstrom <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     DB> solution: it's not clear to me why the regex is so restrictive.
>     DB> i think it would make more sense for gnats to assume that any
>     DB> message with a parseable PR identifier (<category>/<pr_num>) in
>     DB> the subject should be appended to that PR.  that would allow for
>     DB> all the real-world messages to be processed in a manner that
>     DB> would not surprise the sender.
>
> I agree, with an additional restriction described below.

I agree too, with the additional restriction that you propose, namely that 
<category> should be an existing category name. We do need to be certain 
not to attach any significance to the actual value of <category>, as long 
as it is an existing category, since people may send follow-ups to PRs that 
have since changed category.

This also allows us to get rid of the far-too-restrictive matching on "Re:" 
at the start of the subject, since some internationalized e-mail clients 
(at least MS Outlook) use localized equivalents, such as AW: (German) and 
SV: (Norwegian).

Yngve Svendsen
GNATS doc guy