* Adam D. Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-06 04:20-0400]: > Hi, > > Micah Anderson wrote: >> claim <bug> [<claim>] >> Record that you have claimed a bug (e.g. for a bug >> squashing party). >> >> If no claim is specified, the environment variable DEBEMAIL >> or EMAIL (checked in that order) is used. > [...] >> The [<claim>] should read [<email>] and the text, in both >> descriptions, should read: >> >> If no <email> is specified, the environment variable DEBEMAIL or EMAIL >> (checked in that order) is used. > > There's no technical requirement for the claim to be an e-mail address; > it's simply conventional. This may seem slightly picky (and probably is > :-) but certainly in the past it was not uncommon to see bugs tagged with > simply usernames or tags such as "aba-pseudo-bug"; I'm not sure how > prevalent either practice is now.
Thats fine, but the [<claim>] still could use some disambiguation, as there is no clear indication of what that means. It seems to point towards email, as the paragraph about missing claim talks about email being used if its not specified. micah
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
