Re: GNATS: gdb-prs@ -> gdb@?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

See gdb/1.



> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:51:30PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anyone know something about GNATS?
> >
> > I think I know why the ``send email to interested parties'' URL on the 
> > GDB's GNATS web page contains:
> >
> > nobody@
> > The e-mail address of things like ``Responsible: unassigned'' get mapped 
> > onto nobody@ because they can't be mapped onto nothing (That gets 
> > remapped to unassigned@.  True?).  Same for a few others.  I think we 
> > can live with this one.
> >
> > gdb-prs@
> > The contact address for the ``net'' and ``unknown'' customers is gdb-prs@!
> >
> > What do people think of changing this?  For instance, just setting it to 
> > gdb@ or nobody@ (like most other things).
>
> nobody@ would be preferable to gdb@, I think...
Nope.  It is where GNAT's sends those useful CR changed messages.  I 
just did a number of changes to gdb/1 (with it set to nobody) and nobody 
was informed of the changes (except myself and cgf).

> > I also don't remember the rationale behind gdb-gnats@ (where to send a 
> > bug report) vs gdb-prs@ (where the bug reports appear).  I suspect that 
> > it is to stop people accidently re-sending to gdb-gnats?
>
> Isn't gdb-gnats input into the gnats DB, and gdb-prs output from it?
gdb-gnats is input, yes.  gdb-prs is:

# Any line which begins with a `#' is considered a comment, and GNATS
# will ignore it.
#
# Each entry has the format:
#
#       submitter:full submitter 
name:type:response-time:contact:notify-others
#
#       * submitter: The name of the site, customer, etc., sending the
#         report in.
#       * full submitter name: The description, like `Foo Widgets Inc.'.
#       * submitter type: Can be contract type, level of expertise, etc.
#       * response time: If configured with `NOTIFY' set to `TRUE', GNATS
#         will use this field to schedule when at_pr should notify the
#         gnats-admin and gnats-manager that the PR wasn't analyzed
#         within the agreed response time.
#       * contact: Principal contact for the submitter.
#       * notify: Others who should be Cc'd on any PRs coming from
#         this submitter.
#
#
#net:Net Users:net:-1:gdb-prs@sources.redhat.com:
net:Net Users:net:-1:nobody:

(ok that's an old copy of the file).  It's a shame that there isn't a 
BCC field.....

Still confused.

Andrew