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[bpt/emacs.git] / admin / notes / bugtracker

diff --git a/admin/notes/bugtracker b/admin/notes/bugtracker
index 04721e4..eed67f1 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/notes/bugtracker
+++ b/admin/notes/bugtracker
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Resent-CC:   maintainer email address, plus any X-Debbugs-CC: entries
 
 The "maintainer email address" is "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" in most cases.
 
-** To not get acknowledgement mail from the tracker,
+** To not get acknowledgment mail from the tracker,
 add an "X-Debbugs-No-Ack:" header (with any value).  If you use Gnus,
 you can add an element to gnus-posting-styles to do this automatically, eg:
 
@@ -618,6 +618,16 @@ mv /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg /var/lib/mailman/not-spam/
 Also check that the sender was not added to the auto-discard/reject list
 in the debbugs-submit Mailman interface.
 
+If you don't have the actual mail, just the mailman moderation mail
+version of it, you need to extract the original mail, and add the
+following headers:
+
+1) The leading envelope From line.
+2) Message-ID (get it from /var/log/mailman/vette).
+3) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit
+
+Then pipe it to receive as above.
+
 ** Administrivia
 
 The debbugs-submit list should have the administrivia option off,
@@ -632,3 +642,22 @@ mytest       my.email.address
 
 Then if you do all your testing with 'Package: mytest', the resulting
 mails should only go to your email address.
+
+** Adding new tags
+
+Add them to @gTags in /etc/debbugs/config.
+I think you also have to add them to 'tags' and 'tags_single_letter'
+in /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/Config.pm.
+And update /var/www/Developer.html with a description of what the tag means.
+And the "valid tags" list in /var/www/index.html.
+
+** Backups
+
+The FSF sysadmins handle multi-generational backups of the filesystem
+on debbugs.gnu.org.  But if you really want to have your own backup of
+the bug database, you can use rsync (this requires login access to
+debbugs.gnu.org):
+
+ rsync -azvv -e ssh USER@debbugs.gnu.org:/var/lib/debbugs/ DEST
+
+Note that this occupies well over 1G of disk space.