Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 26 May 2010 05:08:44 +0200 as excerpted: > On Tue, 25 May 2010 23:40:44 +0200 > Harald van Dijk <true...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Yes, people like myself who don't normally wrangle bugs but try to help >> out occasionally. I'm not really interested in receiving all bug >> wrangler e-mails. > > Nobody should be required to read all that crap. :)
I've often wished there was a way to flag a bug as "I'm not thru messing with it yet, don't mail anyone yet." That's especially true when I know I'm going to be attaching 2-3 addition files, emerge --info, build log, maybe sth else like a config file or even a patch, where I know the wranglers are going to get all those extra mails. Or, if there was a way to attach files as part of the initial filing, but if there is, I've not found it. Alternatively, for normal bugs at least, maybe attaching emerge --info can be made a part of the process, with the post-submit note saying the bug won't be reported until that second step. (Then for bugs that clearly don't need it, where the bug's clearly in an initscript or something, have a checkbox on that second step saying "emerge --info shouldn't be needed for this.") That would both encourage emerge --info submission AND prevent one layer of bug spam at the same time! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
