[R] Re: R-bugs interfacing to R-devel mailing list

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Jim Lindsey <jlindsey at alpha.luc.ac.be> writes:

> > 
> > Please do *not* Cc: bug reports to other lists. This will only cause
> > most people to receive it in two versions, one of which will be
> > lacking the Problem Report identifier (PR# xxx). If someone then
> > replies to "all recipients", this will open up a *new* Problem Report,
> > etc. 
> 
> I don't quite understand. How are members only of R-help to be
> informed of important new bugs without regularly consulting r-bugs?
> (I never think to myself.) Do the two versions you mention include one
> to r-help? Jim

R-help is primarily intended for helping people use R, whereas R-devel
is for people actively engaged in developing it. I wouldn't expect
everyone on r-help to be interested in seeing every little quirk that
gets registered on r-bugs.

Of course, it can be warranted to announce bugs on r-help (or even
r-announce if they are bad enough), but I don't think it's the general
case. 

And - not to put too fine a point on it - I think that one needs to
distinguish between actual bug reports, overall design discussions,
and lack of knowledge about how things really work, rather than just
send everything to r-bugs with a Cc: to r-help.

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