[Savannah-dev] [Bug #491] notification should be able to include an attached file

[nobody]

=================== Bug #491: Latest Modifications ==================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=491&group_id=11

Changes by: Laurent Julliard <address@hidden>
Date: 2002-May-29 11:00 (Europe/Paris)

            What     | Removed                   | Added
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            Severity | 5 - Average               | 1 - Enhancement
            Priority | None                      | Low
         Assigned to | None                      | ljulliar


------------------ Additional Follow-up Comments ----------------------------
I feel like attaching the content of the bug attachement to the email message 
is going to be a source of troubles and headaches. Here is why:

- Attachement can be if any nature. Yours are likely to be source code (text) 
but it can virtually be any mime type which means I have to modify the email 
generation in our PHP scripts to generate MIME compliant emails

- Attachment can virtually be of any size and I'd like the email notification 
to remain as compact as possible.

So at this point I have a suggestion: would it be ok to include a URL pointing 
directly to the attachement in the email message? (Right now the bug snapshot 
does not even list existing attachements - only bug updates do)




=================== Bug #491: Full Bug Snapshot ===================


Submitted by: okuji                     Project: Savannah                       
Submitted on: 2002-May-29 01:30
Category:  Bug Tracker                  Severity:  1 - Enhancement              
Priority:  Low                          Bug Group:  None                        
Resolution:  None                       Assigned to:  ljulliar                  
Status:  Open                           Effort:  0.00                           

Summary:  notification should be able to include an attached file

Original Submission:  This is not a bug, but a feature request.

We will use the BTS as an alternative to the Patch Manager,
and we have customized the BTS so that the notification
messages are sent to our discussion list. This is convenient
for us, because we can discuss both bugs and patches
simultaneously, using e-mail.

But we found a problem that the BTS didn't make an attached
file included in the notification message. This is
unfortune, because this nullifies the advatanage of e-mail,
namely, the easiness of citation. We sometimes want to
comment on some parts of a patch, but it would be a pain
to download a file, cut and paste the contents, and
edit it.

So I think it would be useful to have an option to
enable/disable a feature to make an attached file
included.

Thanks,
Okuji

Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2002-May-29 11:00             By: ljulliar
I feel like attaching the content of the bug attachement to the email message 
is going to be a source of troubles and headaches. Here is why:

- Attachement can be if any nature. Yours are likely to be source code (text) 
but it can virtually be any mime type which means I have to modify the email 
generation in our PHP scripts to generate MIME compliant emails

- Attachment can virtually be of any size and I'd like the email notification 
to remain as compact as possible.

So at this point I have a suggestion: would it be ok to include a URL pointing 
directly to the attachement in the email message? (Right now the bug snapshot 
does not even list existing attachements - only bug updates do)



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