From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Macdonald To: Pekka Savola Cc: gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Submitting PR's 'closed' or with predetermined closing time. Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:40:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00020.html On Thu, 11 May 2000, Pekka Savola wrote: > I think this feature might be useful in environments where many > administrators file "for-inform" informational PR's in the database. > > Is it possible to file new PR's as 'closed'? At least Gnatsweb doesn't > support this. The reason? Because this is informational (of which some > are there for archival purposes only), it might not make sense having to > remember to close the PR and thus sending excess messages to all > concerning parties. This was always mostly in the gnats core, I think, but 10 months ago I fixed up a couple of details and we use it all the time with TkGnats for exactly the same reason. I _think_ gnatsweb would present the state field in the sendpr form by simply setting the "show-in-send-pr-form-please" flag (don't have the name handy), but there may be more to it that this. > Another interesting feature might be a PR that would automatically close > or change state without sending those informational emails. This way, > some new announcement would show in open reports for a while, and after > some time (when people have probably seen it), it would be silently > archived. I have a state of "purge", which has state class of "closed". I never wrote the script yet, but the intention is to a have a script that deltes from the gnats database all PRs with a state of purge that have been closed longer than some number of days. Built-in generic support for such features would be interesting, as you say. Perhaps in V4 some day... ...RickM...