How to report bugs?

[David Kastrup]

A copy of a letter just sent to the "ding" mailing list.  However,
looking at the gnus.ding group on news.gnus.org, it would appear that
ding has turned into a complete spamtrap and is unlikely to be read,
either.

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Gnus bugfixing is broken.
To: ding@gnus.org
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:11:47 +0100 (22 minutes, 57 seconds ago)


I've used M-x gnus-bug RET to report a bug to bugs@gnus.org, and while
it appears on the local group gnus-bugs (?) on the NNTP server at
news.gnus.org along with several other threads, it would appear that
those other threads have been injected automatically by other channels
(apparently a bug reporting system, since the subject lines contain bug
numbers).

It does not appear like the bug channel fed directly by the gnus-bug
command is actually being read by anybody.

It has now been about two weeks that message-yank-original has stopped
being functional for installations that don't have cl loaded permanently
(namely standard Emacs installations).

Could you please make gnus-bug report somewhere else than what amounts
to /dev/null?  There is nothing to be gained by sabotaging bug reports.

Thanks.

-- 
David Kastrup