Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-10 Thread Adriaan Peeters
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:49 +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > >If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. > >The answer you might give is, "Oh! Send am email to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > This may be a simple way to add that behaviour. [snip] I filed bug #353260 with a patch to do

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:02:44AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > Not trying to start a flame war but can somebody give a convincing > explanation as to why don't we have a standard BTS ? Because most "standard" BTSes suck? > If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interfa

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:19:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: >> What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty >> email to $email.'' to make more explicit that they >> don't need to fill anything out? > >There are a whole host

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:48:55AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > This may be a simple way to add that behaviour. > > > +print "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Subscribe to this > > bug. > > What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:48:55AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > This may be a simple way to add that behaviour. > +print "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Subscribe to this bug. What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty email to $email.'' to make more explicit that they don'

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Brendan O'Dea
Package: debbugs Version: 2.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:02:44AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. >The answer you might give is, "Oh! Send am email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This may be a simple way to ad

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 07, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not trying to start a flame war but can somebody give a convincing explanation > as to why don't we have a standard BTS ? Because no such a thing exists, for a start. HTH. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:02:44AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Not trying to start a flame war but can somebody give a convincing explanation > as to why don't we have a standard BTS ? There is a whole host of reasons. Some I can think of offhand: - All other known alternatives have a numb

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Frank Küster
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Not trying to start a flame war but can somebody give a convincing explanation > as to why don't we have a standard BTS ? I guess most "standard BTSses" can't be easily manipulated by E-Mail, while ours can. > If I need to subscribe to a bug

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Lars Wirzenius
la, 2006-07-08 kello 01:02 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf kirjoitti: > If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. > The answer you might give is, "Oh! Send am email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > Can't we have an interface to allow subscribing to a bug through the web > interface just l

Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, Not trying to start a flame war but can somebody give a convincing explanation as to why don't we have a standard BTS ? If I need to subscribe to a bug I can't use the web interface. The answer you might give is, "Oh! Send am email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Can't we have an interface to allow su