Re: X-GNATS-NOTIFY & the CC list in 4.0

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "DB" == Dirk Bergstrom <address@hidden> writes:

    DB> i propose:

    DB> *) in place of x-gnats-notify, add a field to the standard dbconfig 
called
    DB> "CC-On-Change-List" (or something like that).

    DB> *) change the audit-mail format thusly:
    DB>     header {
    DB> -       format "Subject: Re: %s/%s\n"
    DB> +       format "Subject: Re: %s/%s\nCc: %s\n"
    DB> -       fields { "Category" "Number" }
    DB> +       fields { "Category" "Number" "CC-On-Change-List" }
    DB>     }
    DB> *) remove the Cc: and X-GNATS-Notify headers from send-pr, and remove 
the
    DB> [-c|--cc] option.

    DB> *) remove the code supporting XGN/CC from gnatsweb.

    DB> this will give us most of the same functionality, without a
    DB> bunch of bag-on-the-side support for random headers.  it also
    DB> gives users the choice of whether or not to have a CC
    DB> functionality.

    DB> what do y'all think?

I think it's basically a good idea.  One thing to be considered is what
to do if you want to echo anything related to the PR, not only
Audit-Trail changes, somewhere, see also PR gnats/143.

BTW, I'm not going to introduce any new functionality until 4.0 is
released (unless it's so important that its absence can be considered a
serious bug), so any change requests should be filed as such into the
bug tracking systems, otherwise they can be forgotten.

Regards,

Milan Zamazal

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