Package: bugs.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #365863 At the moment messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are not automatically forwarded to the submitter. This makes it unhelpfully awkward to maintain ongoing communication with bug submitters. The problem is compounded by the web interface at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi which has a "Reply to this bug" link going to [EMAIL PROTECTED], again bypassing the submitter. I imagine this is the greater source of the problem since you can easily select "Reply To All" for a recent email, but you really need to rely on the web interface for older bugs. Adding the '-submitter' manually is not intuitive.
Certainly there are times when the information you're forwarding to a bug may not be interesting to the submitter, but I think more often the submitter will be involved. And even when a piece of information is not directly intended for the submitter, they may nevertheless appreciate seeing that their bug report is being considered seriously (bugzilla behaves this way, adding the submitter to the cc: list by default). Bug #365863 suggests some changes may be afoot to make it the default that [EMAIL PROTECTED] forwards to the submitter. That would be fine solving this problem; we might want to consider if we would want to add a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address to cover the current behaviour of not including the submitter, since [EMAIL PROTECTED] and other variants are not quite the same thing. At the same time an easy and safe work around for those using the web interface is to add a "Reply (including submitter)" link to bugreport.cgi. Then both alternatives would be available, you can choose which one you need. Can this small change to bugreport.cgi be applied now? Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]