Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 4. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] marking the bug as forwarded. > 5. Wait for response (seems to take ages), fix any errors that > occurred, go back to step 4. > > Generally, I always seem to find new and exciting ways of stuffing up > step 4 (e.g. linking to wrong sourceforge bug, using "forward" instead > of "forwarded", sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc), which just > prolongs the entire task and makes it more tedious.
I could never figure out why people used the bts command from devscripts until one day it dawned on me that it prevents many of those problems by syntax-checking your commands for you and always sending mail to the right address. Then I started using it religiously. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
