Eh, sigh. Sorry for not removing the bug mail addresses.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:40 PM, MON KEY <mon...@sandpframing.com> wrote: >> I recently screwed up a bug report sent to help-emacs-windows@gnu.org: >> "23.0.60; yanking raw-text into mini-buffer causes crash" >> by somehow clobbering the operative bug description and details . >> >> In the wake of this report, I have received 2 (two) separate >> pejorative emails "informing" about the use of >> help-emacs-windows@gnu.org for filing bug reports when using the >> Lennart build of GNU-Emacs for w32 (patched). In lieu of these emails >> I suspect of having stepped into someone else's dog fight. >> _Someone please FORMALLY CLARIFY the correct protocol for following >> situation_ > > > I feel a bit guilty so please forward any pejorative emails to me ;-) > > I have tried to arrange bug reporting the best way I could but maybe I > have not been clear enough. If you are using the patched version to > send then it will go to help-emacs-windows@gnu.org (h-e-w) as you have > observed. In the beginning of the generated message there is this > notice: > > This is a bug report for the PATCHED Emacs+EmacsW32. > Please test the unpatched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 before reporting > if you can. If the bug is also in the unpatched version then > report from the unpatched version else report here. > > If it is very inconvenient for you to try the unpatched version, > but you believe the bug is not related to the patches then you > may change the address above to emacs-pretest-...@gnu.org > > I think this is a reasonable way to handle the difficulties with the > bug reports for the patched version I distribute. > > David, you are in charge of h-e-w, did we discuss this before? I have > forgotten. Since h-e-w is a low traffic list and those who use the > patched version might be interested in this list anyway I have > addressed the bug reports to this list. There are also very few bug > reports that are specific to the patched version. > >> On that older Lennart build: Help > Send Bug Report ==> >> Generates a bug-report *mail* buffer with a field; TO: >> help-emacs-windows@gnu.org >> >> I therefor accepted this as the desired (and presumably previously >> agreed upon) protocol. > > This is at least where I want you to send the bug report. > > >> Are the aforementioned behaviors of these Lennart builds incorrect? >> If so, _I_ am _NOT_ the only person whom needs to be politely informed >> of the correct means with which to file a bug report when using >> Lennart builds of Emacs-w32. > > No, we all need that help for our first bug report in a new situation ... ;-) > > >> *** FWIW: The cruxt of _my_ user error involved me kill/pasting from >> Emacs' bug-report *mail* buffer into a gmail web-interface and hitting >> send without checking that everything was yanked/copied correctly. > > Did you notice that there is a little program called gAttach that can > make gmail:s web interface act as the default mail client on w32? >
