From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A85B19E.2EACA3F7@rochcivictheatre.org> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:24:46 -0600 From: Tom Gall MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takashi Oe , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: about automated emails from ppclinux@sourceforge.net References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Takashi Oe wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if you or somebody responsible for the sourceforge site > could reconsider about how "bug" reports and whatnot are fed to > linuxppc-dev mailing list. Hi Takashi, If you are on the dev list I would hope you are interested in bug reports. This forwarding has been in place since last year so folks could keep in tune with the SourceForge site. > I would much rather prefer if the person who actually submitted the bug > report to (or changed the status at) the sourceforge site would CC this > list in person. I disagree. Newbies don't necessary know about the linuxppc-dev list much less the commit list much less where folks hang out in IRC etc etc. People who take the time to test and post bug reports are valueable! Sure not every bug is a real problem but that's the life of a developer. > The autofeed does not show how we may possibly inquire further on the > report itself. For example, the last report about parted requiring reboot > or something seemed like more of a generic Linux issue or just that the > app is broken, and I may perhaps want to ask for details. Then, who > should I send the question to? [Ok, I can find your email address and > others' if I work at it, but that's not my point.] At the VERY bottom of the bug report is a link that you can click on to get more information about the bug. From there you can get the sf id of the people involved in the bugs report and fix. Recall that sourceforge user ids are email addresses. so userid@users.sourceforge.net as an example. > If anything, is it possible to stop the autofeed now and instead to > encourage whoever uses the site to CC their words to linuxppc-dev? Sourceforge doesn't have that feature. You can't cc a bug report somewhere. But that's not to say that those kinds of options couldn't be added. I know some of the VA Linux guys... sounds like a good suggestion. At the moment I am against stopping the auto feed as then folks who are not monitoring the sourceforge site miss out on both new bugs as well as fixes to current bugs. Completely cutting off the flow of information to me isn't the answer. -- Regards, Tom -------------------------------------------------------------- Linux Guy "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, gall@rochcivictheatre.org my brain IBM" -- Mr Roboto, Styxx tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/