I have a naive question here, but only because I've managed to screw this up twice in the last week. What is the correct way to reply to a bug report? Should r-bugs be in the To: or Cc: fields? I originally thought that hitting "Reply" and stripping of the r-devel email address was sufficient but apparently not. -roger
Replying to bug reports
3 messages · Roger D. Peng, Martin Maechler, Uwe Ligges
"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#.
Martin Maechler wrote:
"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#.
Indeed, see yesterdays the duplicated reports #7100 and #7102. Where it would have been essential (at least for Roger's mail client) to move the PR#7100 in front of the subject line. I don't know JitterBug. Is it possible to put the PR# in front of the subject line rather than appending it at the end in order to overcome this quite frequent problem with rather long subject lines? Uwe
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