[KPhotoAlbum] Automatically sending Bugzilla mails to the list

[Baptiste MATHUS]

OK for me. This way we won't miss bugs that are submitted out of the list. I
saw that Shawn, Jan and Tuomas crawled the bug reports yesterday to see if
they were still alive. Thanks.

2007/5/11, Jesper K. Pedersen <blackie at blackie.dk>:
>
> Sounds fine by me, let me know when it is back on, and I'll change the
> recipient of new bugs.
>
> On Thursday 10 May 2007, Shawn Willden wrote:
> | I mentioned it wouldn't be too hard to arrange for bug e-mails to be
> | delivered to the mailing list.  As an experiment, I went ahead and set
> it
> | up.  I have disabled it pending discussing about whether or not it's a
> good
> | idea, but I can turn it on at any time.
> |
> | How it works:
> |
> | I created an e-mail account "kpabugs at willden.org".  I then used that
> | account to create a KDE bugzilla account and a KPA mailing list
> | subscription.  In the KDE bugzilla account preferences, I set it to
> watch
> | Jesper's messages.
> |
> | Whenever e-mail arrives for kpabugs, a maildrop filter is executed.  If
> the
> | message is from the mailing list, the message is discarded (to prevent
> | looping).  If the message is from bugzilla (as identified by a
> | X-Bugzilla-URL header), then the message is modified and sent to the
> | mailing list.  The modifications are:
> |
> | 1.  The X-Bugzilla-URL header is removed as a further precaution against
> | looping.
> | 2.  The From: header is rewritten to be kpabugs at willden.org, so the
> mailing
> | list will accept the message.
> | 3.  The To: header is rewritten to be kphotoalbum at kdab.net, so the
> mailing
> | list will accept the message.
> |
> | If the message is neither from the mailing list, nor from bugzilla, it's
> | forwarded to my personal account for me to deal with.
> |
> | It seems safe enough, and functional.  If there's a consensus that
> having
> | all bug e-mails forwarded to the mailing list is a good idea, I'll turn
> it
> | back on, and perhaps Jesper will want to set kpabugs at willden.org as the
> | default recipient for KPA bugs, so he won't get duplicates.
> |
> |       Shawn.
>
>

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Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS
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