Bug#684113: debbugs: marked as done messages are a pain to read

2012-08-07 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debbugs,bugs.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

If you're following a bug discussion (say in debian-release@ or
debian-bugs-rc@), you will see the whole thread and at the end
you see a marked as done message where you have to scroll pages and
pages until you find the interesting message that lead to the
bug closure (it's the last part of the message).

This bug closure message was fine when it was sent back to the
maintainer who closed the bug. Nowadays with co-maintenance and so many
external followers, it really needs to be reorganized.

What really matters to me is that we can see the bug closure mail
as close to the top as possible. Thus you should probably reword the
initial part because it takes close to a full screen in my mutt setup.

I would suggest something like this:
| Note from the Debian Bug Tracking System: the message below
| has caused the Debian Bug report #684023 to marked as done.
| --
| 684023: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684023
| Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

It should be immediately followed by the copy of the mail to -done.
The copy of the initial report seems useless to me in most cases.
But if you want to keep it, you should put it in the last position.

Another thing that bothers me, is that those messages are sent from
Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org effectively hiding
from my mailer the person who sent the -done mail (and thus my searches
by sender will not find those mails). It would thus be nice if the
mail could keep the From of the -done mail.

Thank you in advance to consider those improvements.

Cheers,
 Raphaël Hertzog.


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Bug#684113: debbugs: marked as done messages are a pain to read

2012-08-07 Thread Don Armstrong
Control: retitle -1 put -done message first for all messages
Control: reassign -1 debbugs
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 send -done messages from submitter

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
 What really matters to me is that we can see the bug closure mail as
 close to the top as possible. Thus you should probably reword the
 initial part because it takes close to a full screen in my mutt
 setup.

What you are asking is for the -done messages to look like the
messages we currently send to submitters; that's possible.
 
 Another thing that bothers me, is that those messages are sent from
 Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org effectively
 hiding from my mailer the person who sent the -done mail (and thus
 my searches by sender will not find those mails). It would thus be
 nice if the mail could keep the From of the -done mail.

Probably, yeah.


Don Armstrong

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and you wind up feeling stupid
when you still die.
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