Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> OK. This unfortunately came a bit too late for today's integration >> cycle, so I'll leave this in my inbox and replace what is queued >> with it later. >> >> Unless there is another one to supersede this proposal comes before >> that happens,

Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: > OK. This unfortunately came a bit too late for today's integration > cycle, so I'll leave this in my inbox and replace what is queued > with it later. > > Unless there is another one to supersede this proposal comes before > that happens, that is. > > Thanks. Sounds

Re: [PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > My experience is that bug reporters are very sensitive to hints the > project gives about what kind of bugs they want to receive. I'd > rather make use of that lesson now instead of waiting to relearn it in > the wild. Here goes. OK. This unfortunately came a bit

[PATCH] git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive (Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Subject: git doc: direct bug reporters to mailing list archive The mailing list archive can help a user encountering a bug to tell whether a recent regression has already been reported and whether a longstanding bug has already had some discussion to start their thinking. Based-on-patch-by:

Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive

2018-09-28 Thread Junio C Hamano
Martin Ågren writes: >> Hm. I think this encourages a behavior that I want to discourage: >> assuming that if a bug has already been reported then there's nothing >> more for the new user to add. > > It was my hope that all of these could be inferred from the above text: > > "I'll just drop a

Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive

2018-09-27 Thread Martin Ågren
Hey On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 08:37, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Martin Ågren wrote: > > > --- a/Documentation/git.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/git.txt > > @@ -859,6 +859,9 @@ Reporting Bugs > > Report bugs to the Git mailing list where the > > development and maintenance is primarily done. You do

Re: [PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive

2018-09-27 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Martin Ågren wrote: > --- a/Documentation/git.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git.txt > @@ -859,6 +859,9 @@ Reporting Bugs > Report bugs to the Git mailing list where the > development and maintenance is primarily done. You do not have to be > subscribed to the list to send a message there. >

[PATCH v2] git.txt: mention mailing list archive

2018-09-26 Thread Martin Ågren
In the "Reporting Bugs" section of git(1), we refer to the mailing list, but we do not give any hint about where the archives might be found. Of course, any web search engine can be used to try to hunt down whether an issue is already known. But we can do better by mentioning the archive at