On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:17:01 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
(...) >>> This script and the BTS aren;t tied in to the box from which you >>> report a script. As long as you have a Debian or Ubuntu or other >>> Debian derivative box with devscripts installed, you should be able to >>> auto-subscribe with this script to all the bugs that you've reported. > > >> As I read it, the script is basically a loop that retrieves the bug >> number for all the bugs that have been sent by the reporter and sends >> subcription e-mails to the BTS robot... but you still have to manually >> reply to the incoming confirmation e-mails, right? And this is when the >> Procmail recipe comes into play, I guess, to close the cycle. > > I don't remember the procmail reference but I'll trust you Never trust anyone, human people have many bugs and fail :-) The proposed procmail recipe is available here: http://git.madduck.net/v/etc/mailfilter.git?a=blob;f=procmail/rules/debian-debbugs-autosubscribe;hb=HEAD > (I looked at the page for a few seconds at most (!) so I could easily have > misread/misunderstood. You certainly have to reconfirm your subscription > manually or otherwise... Yes, and that's an overwhelming task if it has to be done manually. >> It can be useful for mass-susbcriptions and mass-confirmation (when >> used alongside Procmail or a similar filter to do the job) but is still >> too much work -IMO- for bug reporters that are not using such mailing >> schema. > > I couldn't agree more but if the BTS developers want it this way, there > isn't another option... Sadly yes, that's what we have now. And it's not only the BTS infrastructure, people who help with Debian translation have to use a system that is almost 100% manually handled. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.02.14.05...@gmail.com
