bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

2011-04-13 Thread jidanni
I noticed that when submitting bugs to bug-*@gnu.org, unlike other bug submission by mail systems, e.g., Deb bugs of Debian, the user receives no cheery auto reply acknowledging the bug was ever even received and didn't go into a black hole, or expecting the user to dig out what happened to his

Re: bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

2011-04-13 Thread jidanni
PS == Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.net writes: PS If you want a bug report to be filed and acknowledged, then you want: PS https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additemgroup=make Thanks for answering! Well that's not the advertised way to submit bugs. You advertise bug-*@gnu.org. PS The FSF does

Re: bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 08:57 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: PS == Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.net writes: PS If you want a bug report to be filed and acknowledged, then you want: PS https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additemgroup=make Thanks for answering! Well that's not the advertised

Re: bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 07:28 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: I noticed that when submitting bugs to bug-*@gnu.org, unlike other bug submission by mail systems, e.g., Deb bugs of Debian, the user receives no cheery auto reply acknowledging the bug was ever even received and didn't go into a

Re: bug report acknowledgments should be the default!

2011-04-13 Thread jidanni
PS however, and so I wouldn't expect people to think that messages to PS that list would become bug reports and automatically acknowledged, a PS la Debian's BTS etc. Anyways from all the GNU man pages (but not exactly make's, true, but we just remember bug-make@gnu.org anyway and wouldn't check