From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13536 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2001 15:24:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Dec 2001 15:24:50 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16FGg0-000428-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:24:36 -0500 Received: from sokol.skynet.cz ([193.165.254.8]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16FGeH-0003w0-00 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 10:22:49 -0500 X-Envelope-To: help-gnats@gnu.org Received: from blackbird.zamazal.org (mail@asasync55.skynet.cz [193.165.192.155]) by sokol.skynet.cz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA05133; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 16:22:44 +0100 (envelope-from pdm@zamazal.org) Received: from pdm by blackbird.zamazal.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16FGdv-0002rf-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 16:22:27 +0100 To: "Dirk Bergstrom" Cc: Subject: Re: Subject line processing in Gnats 4.0 References: X-Face: >kl&pL}(a*u\BCj7Q,\Yoq35~,4dAu"CPGaJ[ahMli9uu#aF7dWxc3L.eaK2RWRU|',E+. -':&gJ-JAZ/N$f^4-3?G7M&Knna[A=lJ$}^!%@vuvulVl6-)x.V8RZ7fW9< From: Milan Zamazal In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <878zc4obgb.fsf@blackbird.zamazal.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: help-gnats-admin@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnats-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General discussion about GNU GNATS List-Archive: Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 14:17:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00117.txt.bz2 >>>>> "DB" == Dirk Bergstrom writes: >> - Accept "\> name and PR NUMBER is present in CATEGORY. DB> i think this will cause problems -- as yngve pointed out, PRs DB> often change categories, and someone might reply to a PR that DB> has since changed. i think the rule should be: Accept DB> "\ NUMBER is a valid PR number (in any category). Yes, Yngve has made a good point, I agree. DB> let's not worry about deleted categories -- that's probably a DB> very infrequent occurrence, and it could get ugly to code DB> around... OK. DB> hmmm, we need to make sure that the edge-cases are covered. for DB> instance, what happens with this subject "re: sw-foo/1234: DB> Compilation fails on OS/2"? This is only a problem when there's the category `os' and there's an especially important PR #2 that can't be deleted. Not much serious problem, IMO. DB> what about some strange situation where the false hit came DB> *before* the category/number pair, like a mailing list post: DB> "FW: [OS/2 users] Re: sw-foo/1234: bar baz quux"? We should probably consider all possible matches and use the first valid one. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- The world is not something you can wrap your head around without needing years of experience. -- Kent M. Pitman in comp.lang.lisp _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Milan Zamazal To: "Dirk Bergstrom" Cc: Subject: Re: Subject line processing in Gnats 4.0 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:24:00 -0000 Message-ID: <878zc4obgb.fsf@blackbird.zamazal.org> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00238.html Message-ID: <20011215072400.wo1Gi0OLOhUyB-tdjzGQ3fN1CzIl63XVnvyKOiGYLYk@z> >>>>> "DB" == Dirk Bergstrom writes: >> - Accept "\> name and PR NUMBER is present in CATEGORY. DB> i think this will cause problems -- as yngve pointed out, PRs DB> often change categories, and someone might reply to a PR that DB> has since changed. i think the rule should be: Accept DB> "\ NUMBER is a valid PR number (in any category). Yes, Yngve has made a good point, I agree. DB> let's not worry about deleted categories -- that's probably a DB> very infrequent occurrence, and it could get ugly to code DB> around... OK. DB> hmmm, we need to make sure that the edge-cases are covered. for DB> instance, what happens with this subject "re: sw-foo/1234: DB> Compilation fails on OS/2"? This is only a problem when there's the category `os' and there's an especially important PR #2 that can't be deleted. Not much serious problem, IMO. DB> what about some strange situation where the false hit came DB> *before* the category/number pair, like a mailing list post: DB> "FW: [OS/2 users] Re: sw-foo/1234: bar baz quux"? We should probably consider all possible matches and use the first valid one. Regards, Milan Zamazal -- The world is not something you can wrap your head around without needing years of experience. -- Kent M. Pitman in comp.lang.lisp _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats