On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:37:23PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What's the problem with submiting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL > >> PROTECTED] > > $ w3m -dump -cols 72 http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting | grep -2 > > maintonly | head > > If a bug report is minor, for example, a documentation typo or a > > trivial build problem, please adjust the severity appropriately and > > send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] maintonly will > > forward the report to the package maintainer only, it won't forward it > > to the BTS mailing lists. > > > > If you're submitting many reports at once, you should definitely use > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that you don't cause too much redundant traffic on > > the BTS mailing lists. Before submitting many similar bugs you may also > > want to post a summary on debian-bugs-dist. > > > > (The "post a summary" bit may be out of date; can ordinary users post to > > -bugs-dist these days?) > > So, yes, these are very special cases. Furthermore, people are not reading > the BTS docs all the time and they might have missed such details.
I do not know Jack (I am assuming he is not DD.). IMHO, it should be very obviously described to point people to use both addresses in the web page. I certainly do not expect non-debian developers to read the developer reference. After all, web pages are where the rest of the world get to know Debian BTS. More specifically: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html Under the section "Sending the bug report via e-mail", this describes "Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as described below." This should have been something like: "Send email to either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], as described below." And rest should have adjusted in accordance with developer reference. Any volunteer ?? (Thus posed to debian-www) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract
