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

[Philip Kaludercic]

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

>> 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?

Yes, it uses a local checkout, but this should be fine considering that
if someone is writing a patch, they /should/ be using a relatively
up-to-date checkout to begin with.

> 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 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 work with outdated working copies as well.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

I don't know too much about Debbugs, to be fair.  But I assumed that one
cannot just arbitrarily declare packages, or am I mistaken?

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        Philip Kaludercic on peregrine