Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> well what about having the tracker being subscribed to the list and let
> it create a bug/patch/ticket id automatically for new mails - that way
> all stuff is automatically tracked ? - That way it can be categorized in
> the course of the following discussion but no history gets lost.
This is (more or less) what the Tracman system proposed by Josh Drake
does -- and it's awful IMHO. Amusingly, it's also more or less the same
thing that debbugs does, which IMHO is really good.
The main difference (again IMHO) is that Tracman tries to stuff the info
in Trac comments, so it has to forcefully extract things from the email
with rather poor results; whereas debbugs uses the mbox itself as the
definite storage.
Note that neither are really "subscribed" to the lists; rather they are
some sort of gatekeepers, which process the email *before* they get to
the list. (Actually, AFAIK in debbugs there is no actual mail list --
it's all mainly about appropriate CC's.)
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