replies using using original subject line

replies using using original subject line

[Aamer Akhter]

Hello,

I'm evaluating gnats to see if it can help our group keep track of issues we 
find without modifying our current model too much.

I've been reading the following thread:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnats/2001-12/msg00026.html

and it remains unclear to me what gnats would do if the original submitter also 
CC'd other parties in the PR submission. I can understand that gnats would 
create a new PR, etc. But suppose one of the other recipients responds with 'Re: 
<original subject line>', will gnats create a new PR? or is there some logic 
(which I couldn't find) that says:

1. look we've got a Re:, meaning it's a response to something gnats may already 
know about
2. it turns out in the last X days, there is a synopsis of <original subject 
line>, this must be the same PR, let me append...

is there anything like that? I understand in other environments, this may create 
all sorts of problems, but it probably wouldn't in ours...


tia
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Aamer Akhter / aa@cisco.com
NSITE cisco Systems


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Re: replies using using original subject line

[Chad Walstrom]

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:10:51AM -0400, Aamer Akhter wrote:
> 1. look we've got a Re:, meaning it's a response to something gnats
> may already know about 2. it turns out in the last X days, there is a
> synopsis of <original subject line>, this must be the same PR, let me
> append...
> 
> is there anything like that? I understand in other environments, this
> may create all sorts of problems, but it probably wouldn't in ours...

IIRC, there is nothing like that.  You're talking about the initial
submission.  Although most replies will contain the original subject,
the current file-pr program only looks for either the "PR#" string or
the "CATEGORY/#:" string.  It does not look at the subject and query the
synopsis for matching PR's, although that would be a wonderful feature.
It also does not have any "thread logic" to tie emails together.

These are both very good features to request/code.

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