At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 06:07:06 +0000 (UTC), "John Hawkinson" wrote:
> David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote on Wed, 25 Jun 2003
> at 14:01:00 +0100 in <20030625140100.F2608@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>:
> > > Is there a list to which I could subscribe to receive copies of comments
> > > appended to PRs?  "gnats-bugs" receives the original PR, but not
> > > subsequent comments.
> > 
> > Gnats is broken, you need to explicitly copy netbsd-bugs when replying
> > to gnats mail.
> 
> This is not "broken," it is expected behavior.

Indeed.  Don't blame gnats, blame the NetBSD configuration thereof.


> netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org is the mailing list which receives original
> copies of PRs automatically. PR updates are sent to
> gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, which appends updates the PR database. Users
> may cc netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org on updates if they want them to go there.

... but that doesn't mean that the above-described behaviour,
intentional though it may be, is *desirable*.

The current behaviour is broken, it's just not gnats's fault.  8-)


cgd
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Chris Demetriou                                            Broadcom Corporation
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