From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)tapoueh(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: mailing list redirect for bug numbers? |
Date: | 2019-01-19 14:54:32 |
Message-ID: | 20190119145432.GR2528@tamriel.snowman.net |
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Greetings,
* Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:40 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> > If we want something that would work with replies for direct CC, then
> > we'd have to (ab)use a field that we know MUAs will copy to the next
> > email on a reply and there's unfortunately few of those. At least
> > some bug trackers have dedicated email addresses for individual bugs,
> > probably for that reason, among others.
>
> Technically we already have this for threads started in the form these
> days, as you can trivially get the bug number out of the message-id, and
> the message-id is one of the fields that *is* typically preserved (in the
> References header).
Hmmm, we certainly can't change the message-ID in-transit, but I wonder
about the References field and/or In-Reply-To...
> It won't cover threads that are responded to by creating a whole new thread
> and referencing the bug in the free text part of it, but there's really no
> way to handle that form inside the email...
Yeah, which also means it's difficult for someone who isn't on the list
and not on the original email to add to a bug... That might be solved
if/when we implement the "email me this message" feature that we've
discussed a few times.
Thanks!
Stephen
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