bug#69646: [PATCH] Have insert 'submit-emacs-patch' maintainers into X-Debbugs-Cc

[Michael Albinus]

Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Felician,

>> Here's a suggestion, to have the submit-emacs-patch command
>> automatically ping maintainers, in case they are not following the bug
>> tracker.  Basically it goes through all the files and extracts the
>> information from the Maintainer: header.
>
> Do I understand correctly that the maintainer is detected by searching
> the local copy of Emacs, and not the always up-to-date remote version?
>
> I'm not sure this makes a difference in practice, but a possible
> alternative approach is to define two packages in the bug report.  For
> example:
>
>    Package: emacs,emacs-eglot
>
> Then if the file "/etc/debbugs/Maintainers" on fencepost has a line
> "emacs-eglot    joaotavora@gmail.com", debbugs will CC João as well.

This file is on debbugs.gnu.org, FTR.

I don't know (and haven't tested) whether this cooperates well with the
debbugs software. A package is usually defined as such on debbugs, don't
know whether an entry as proposed by you confuses debbugs (hopefully,
not).

And I don't know how you want to maintain this file. It is intended for
all packages existing on debbugs.gnu.org, not only for Emacs.

Practically, there is only one maintainer on debbugs.gnu.org ATM, that's
me. I won't commit to this additional burden.

> This approach might be more complicated than yours, but would possibly
> work with outdated working copies as well.  Or might not work at all.
> I've come up with it based on the file emacs/admin/notes/bugtracker, and
> this: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/debbugs-ug.html

Best regards, Michael.