From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16879 invoked by alias); 25 May 2003 16:04:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16868 invoked from network); 25 May 2003 16:04:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dberlin.org) (69.3.5.6) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 May 2003 16:04:15 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (account dberlin HELO dberlin.org) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1b6) with ESMTP-TLS id 4062573; Sun, 25 May 2003 12:04:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 16:30:00 -0000 Subject: Re: bug submitters not converted from GNAT to bugzilla Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org To: Matthias Klose From: Daniel Berlin In-Reply-To: <16080.31685.469710.946317@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Message-Id: <8785E93A-8ECA-11D7-B77D-000A95A34564@dberlin.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg02219.txt.bz2 On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 04:16 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Daniel Berlin writes: >> >> On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 03:08 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >>> When forwarding reports from the Debian BTS to GCC GNATS, I could >>> explicitely set the submitter (the submitter of the Debian report) >>> and >>> the email address (of the Debian bug report). Currently even adding >>> an >>> @bugs.debian.org to a report doesn't work anymore. >>> >> Sorry, there are no provisions for external (IE non-bugzilla account >> holder) cc's. >> They have to have accounts. >> Adding external cc support would likely take at least a month, and i'm >> just not up for it right now. > > what is worse, Sorry, it's not all that bad to begin with. You implied in private mail that this is somehow a missing feature. It's not really. GNATS had no email preferences. Bugzilla has per-user email preferences. External cc's don't mesh well with each user being able to control what email they receive, since they *aren't* users. It's not an easy problem. Consider 1. What do you do if they later become a user? Move all the external-cc's to be regular cc's? This will cause them to be subject to the email preferences, which might *not* be what the user expects. 2. How does one come up with a consistent UI for adding both "regular" cc's, and "external" cc's, that doesn't confuse the hell out of people. 3. Do you really think that someone on an external cc isn't going to ask to be able to have the same type of email preferences users do? Then what? > that _all_ the addresses from the GNATS submitter > fields cannot be found in bugzilla anymore. Please stop making such blanket statements, it's simply not correct. > See PR10888 for > example. In http://bugs.debian.org/193049 in the message > 20030520215917.15973.qmail@sources.redhat.com, > bonnaud@irancy.lis.inpg.fr is still CCed, but not present in bugzilla > anymore. Because it was in the originator field, and your name is in the from field. From overrode originator for purposes of choosing who the reporter was, so it got marked as being from your account, not hers. Unfortunately, i never added the results of the x-gnats-notify field to the cc list. I can remedy this easily. > I didn't count the affected reports, but this may be ~80 open > reports, which were forwarded from the Debian archives. --Dan