Bug#1029265: www.debian.org: "Bugs/server-control" missing information about "Control:"

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 14:06 +, Christian Buhtz wrote:

> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
> 
> It lacks the information that all on that site described commands need to have
> a "Control: " string in front of them.

FTR, the Control pseudo-header is documented here:

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting#control

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Bug#1029265: www.debian.org: "Bugs/server-control" missing information about "Control:"

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Christian,

While improving the current doc can always happen, I'm not sure I agree
with your assessment that critical information is missing…

Christian Buhtz  (2023-01-20):
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control […]

The very first line mentions writing those mails to cont...@bugs.debian.org.

(That's the historical way of manipulating bug reports; support for
Control: when mailing n...@bugs.debian.org came much later.)

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-refcard is also very clear about
which commands can be sent to request@ and to control@.


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Bug#1029265: www.debian.org: "Bugs/server-control" missing information about "Control:"

[Christian Buhtz]

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

it is about this part of your website.

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control

It lacks the information that all on that site described commands need to have
a "Control: " string in front of them. Otherwise they are useless. For new
users it seems impossible to know. My maintainers did told me how to do it. And
I still can not find that very important key information on your website.

Depending on my experience with the Debian community the info must be somewhere
there. But I couldn't find it.

Even the that linked sub-pages didn't mention the "Control: " string.

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-request
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-refcard

I assume improving this would draw less new contributors away.

Kind
Christian