bug-tracker: How to response/subscribe to a bug-thread

bug-tracker: How to response/subscribe to a bug-thread

[c.buhtz]

Hello,
I still try to become warm with the bug-tracking-system you are using.

There is a known bug that is also tracked on the "dashboard" 
(https://updates.orgmode.org/) as "Inconsistent handling of id: links to 
other file during publish".
https://list.orgmode.org/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto/

I was not subscribed to the list when this thread comes up. So I have no 
mail here I can reply-to. I can I answer to that thread?

Side question: I can I monitor that thread/bug without being subscribed 
to the list? The "dashboard" seems not to have any subscribe, monitor or 
feed mechanism. The "Atom" feed (https://list.orgmode.org/new.atom) is 
only for complete list not for one thread.

Kind
Christian

Re: bug-tracker: How to response/subscribe to a bug-thread

[Russell Adams]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 04:46:25PM +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> Hello,
> I still try to become warm with the bug-tracking-system you are using.
>
> There is a known bug that is also tracked on the "dashboard"
> (https://updates.orgmode.org/) as "Inconsistent handling of id: links to
> other file during publish".
> https://list.orgmode.org/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto/
>
> I was not subscribed to the list when this thread comes up. So I have no
> mail here I can reply-to. I can I answer to that thread?

On that list page, the footer says you can either download an mbox
archive of the messages and reply inside your mail client, and it
provides a link where you can use a in-reply-to and subject header
which CC's the list.

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

mailto:inkbottle007%40gmail.com?In-Reply-To=%3C12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto%3E&Cc=emacs-orgmode%40gnu.org&Subject=Re%3A%20Internal%20link%20broken%20when%20publishing%20%28was%20org-id%20with%20ox-html%29

> Side question: I can I monitor that thread/bug without being subscribed
> to the list? The "dashboard" seems not to have any subscribe, monitor or
> feed mechanism. The "Atom" feed (https://list.orgmode.org/new.atom) is
> only for complete list not for one thread.

The best way is to subscribe to the list.

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Re: bug-tracker: How to response/subscribe to a bug-thread

[Kyle Meyer]

c.buhtz@posteo.jp writes:

> Side question: I can I monitor that thread/bug without being subscribed 
> to the list? The "dashboard" seems not to have any subscribe, monitor or 
> feed mechanism. The "Atom" feed (https://list.orgmode.org/new.atom) is 
> only for complete list not for one thread.

You can get an atom feed for a single thread using the /t.atom endpoint
(documented in <https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/_/text/help/>).

Example:

  https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto/t.atom

Re: bug-tracker: How to response/subscribe to a bug-thread

[Max Nikulin]

On 09/03/2022 23:46, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> 
> There is a known bug that is also tracked on the "dashboard" 
> (https://updates.orgmode.org/) as "Inconsistent handling of id: links to 
> other file during publish".
> https://list.orgmode.org/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto/
> 
> I was not subscribed to the list when this thread comes up. So I have no 
> mail here I can reply-to. I can I answer to that thread?

There is a number of various mail list archives that allow to fetch 
particular message and to compose a reply to it. There are some minor 
bugs (they usually have workarounds), so I can not tell that it works 
really smooth.

Besides already mentioned public inbox instance:

Gmane archive is available though news:// or nntp:// protocols. You may 
setup a news reader, subscribe to the news group and fetch old messages 
or just access particular one by its Message-ID

     w3m -m 'nntp://news.gmane.io/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto'
     w3m -m 
'nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.orgmode/12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto'

"Official" (GNU) mail list archive has a reply button
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=%2Bmessage-id%3A12368452.sVpYeFqCzH@pluto&idxname=emacs-orgmode
but it is necessary to edit "To" field otherwise the response will be 
sent off-list to the author only. Unfortunately the In-Reply-To field of 
mailto: links there violates "RFC 6068 - The 'mailto' URI Scheme" due to 
missed angle brackets around Message-ID, so a mailer may skip it.

For bugs submitted to https://debbugs.gnu.org it is enough to keep 
subject with bug number when the message is sent to 
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org or to send it to the mail address of the bug 
NNN@debbugs.gnu.org. Some efforts are required when you are at the HTML 
page with discussion of the bug and you intention is to respond namely 
with proper In-Reply-To. Unlike upstream https://bugs.debian.org/ , GNU 
version does not have "reply" links. It is possible to fetch particular 
message ("mbox" link), open it, and reply. Obstacles are ".mbox" 
extension instead of ".eml" despite correct MIME type "message/rfc866" 
in HTTP headers and necessity to edit "To" field since the downloaded 
message has only low-level service mail addresses.

So some attention is required to compose a well-formed response, but 
being subscribed to the mail list in advance is not a prerequisite.