From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dirk Bergstrom" To: "Milan Zamazal" Cc: Subject: RE: Subject line processing in Gnats 4.0 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00222.html Message-ID: <20011213150900.gKKNR7HaVQ6eBT5G3Pa4PBS36IvOTa_PeLdXO7q2xYE@z> > DB> *) accept FW: as well as RE: -- change the subject pattern > DB> thusly: > This is insufficient, since my mail client generates something > completely different of "FW" on forwarding and some other software > authors think it's a good idea to replace "Re:" with its "translation" > to the users' language. yes yngve pointed this out as well. I18N rears it's head. i agree that it's insufficient. > - Accept "\ category name and > PR NUMBER is present in CATEGORY. i think this will cause problems -- as yngve pointed out, PRs often change categories, and someone might reply to a PR that has since changed. i think the rule should be: Accept "\ - Accept "\ and NUMBER > corresponds to an existing PR number. this is good. > Would it serve the purpose in an acceptable way? hmmm, we need to make sure that the edge-cases are covered. for instance, what happens with this subject "re: sw-foo/1234: Compilation fails on OS/2"? what about some strange situation where the false hit came *before* the category/number pair, like a mailing list post: "FW: [OS/2 users] Re: sw-foo/1234: bar baz quux"? yes, these are unlikely, but it's going to be *very* confusing to the gnats-admin that has to figure out why nobody can reply to one of their PRs... other than that, i'm all for the change. -- Dirk Bergstrom dirk@juniper.net _____________________________________________ Juniper Networks Inc., Computer Geek Tel: 707.433.0564 Fax: 707.433.0769 _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats