on Fri Dec 19 2008, Fabio Fracassi
David Abrahams schrieb:
on Wed Dec 17 2008, Fabio Fracassi
wrote: David Abrahams schrieb:
on Mon Dec 15 2008, John Phillips
wrote: [...] I don't know if I was the first to do this, but I have done it. Looking at the current contents of the instructions to review managers, either they have changed since I started managing reviews or I somehow hallucinated extra words to add the user list to the lists that should receive an announcement of the review. An announcement is one thing; instructing people to post their reviews in the same list is a different thing entirely.
You don't have to, it happens almost automatically if you are not careful. Many people write their Review as a reply to the original announcement, and if you are not extra careful to remove the user list from the recipients your review gets send to both lists.
The poster of the announcement should make it clear how to post a review. I never liked the idea of reviews showing up in the list with the subject "Review period for Boost.XXXX begins today" anyway. Also s/he can set the Reply-To: field.
When using thunderbird as a client to the gmane news gateway the Reply to fields don't seem to work though. I don't know if there is a technical solution to this particular problem.
I've never had a problem with Gnus' Reply-to functionality and gmane. It's hard to imagine that TBird is broken in this way.
Beside this I agree with you, if the original anouncement clearly states that reviews and followups should go to .devel. Still I think that sometimes some messages might go astray and maybe we should suggest that the review manager and/or the submitter should have an eye on the users list, so that nothing is lost. (and maybe forward those strays to .devel)
Not a bad suggestion. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com