Message-ID: <16632.56652.21794.180776@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2004-07-17T10:03:25Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: Replying to bug reports
In-Reply-To: <40F836DD.40901@jhsph.edu>
>>>>> "Roger" == Roger D Peng <rpeng@jhsph.edu>
>>>>> on Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:13:17 -0400 writes:
Roger> I have a naive question here, but only because I've
Roger> managed to screw this up twice in the last week.
Roger> What is the correct way to reply to a bug report?
Roger> Should r-bugs be in the To: or Cc: fields? I
Roger> originally thought that hitting "Reply" and stripping
Roger> of the r-devel email address was sufficient but
Roger> apparently not.
and be careful to keep the string '(PR#....)' as part of the
subject *) That should really suffice.
Can you remind me of an example where it didn't?
Martin
*)
Brian found it useful to move that string to the
beginning of the subject line in those cases where that line
has been relatively long -- since other people's mailers may
break the line in two - which for the 'R-bugs' mail handler
makes the 2nd part to be "not Subject" and leads to creation of
another PR#.