git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git.txt: mention mailing list archive
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:07:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlg7wyol5.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6319b34fc808ff6d8948e59f381cc5342b9ef17d.1537375332.git.martin.agren@gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:43:00 +0200")

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

> In the "Reporting Bugs" section of git(1), we refer to the mailing list,
> but we do not give any hint about where the archives might be found.

And why is it a good idea to give that information in Reporting Bugs
section?  Are we asking the bug reporters to look for similar issues
in the archive before they send their message?  If so, I think that
we should be explicit about it, too.  Otherwise, the list archive
location would look like an irrelevant noise to those who wanted to
find the address to report bugs to.

For example, we can say something like this:

>  Report bugs to the Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org> where the
>  development and maintenance is primarily done.  You do not have to be
>  subscribed to the list to send a message there.
  +If you want to check to see if the issue has
  +been reported already, the list archive can be found at
  +<https://public-inbox.org/git/> and other places.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-20 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-19 16:43 [PATCH] git.txt: mention mailing list archive Martin Ågren
2018-09-20 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-09-26  8:05   ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-26 13:47     ` Taylor Blau
2018-09-27  5:50       ` [PATCH v2] " Martin Ågren
2018-09-27  6:37         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-27 10:35           ` Martin Ågren
2018-09-28 16:56             ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 21:20               ` [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive) Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-28 22:27                 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-28 22:29                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-09-28 23:09                     ` Jonathan Nieder

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=xmqqlg7wyol5.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com \
    --to=gitster@pobox.com \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=martin.agren@gmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).