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Re: Guix packaging meetup: Saturday 27 November
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jgart |
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Re: Guix packaging meetup: Saturday 27 November |
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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:26:39 -0500 |
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 22:01:32 +0100 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Hi jgart,
>
> Thank you for the invitation!
>
> jgart 写道:
> > Not sure what to do at this point.
>
> At this point, not much: you might reply to the mail with a
> non-empty subject, and hope that people will reply to that one, or
> that they will manually copy it when replying to your original
> post. Others might add a meaningful subject of their own, as I
> have tried to do.
>
> Still, expect some untitled ‘Re:’ messages. It's not the end of
> the world :-)
>
> Mailing list archives are just that: snapshots of each message
> sent to members. They do not generally offer a way to modify
> recorded history[0]. They do not really track mutable state such
> as ‘topics’.
>
> Threading is (or should be) based on message IDs, although some
> archivers will use the subject as an additional heuristic.
>
> bug-guix/guix-patches are simple bug trackers built on top of
> mailing lists that add such mutable state (‘bug title’, priority,
> openness, etc.) but this is a separate database.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
> [0]: Exceptions like GDPR and ‘asking nicely to remove
> embarrassing info’ exist, but are by definition exceptional and
> often involve human administrator action.
Thanks Tobias for the info. Sorry for the mixup with the email.
I'll send an email now to help-debbugs at gnu org
all best,
jgart