On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 at 21:07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Martin Ågren <martin.agren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > In the "Reporting Bugs" section of git(1), we refer to the mailing list, > > but we do not give any hint about where the archives might be found. > > And why is it a good idea to give that information in Reporting Bugs > section? Are we asking the bug reporters to look for similar issues > in the archive before they send their message? If so, I think that Your guess is correct, sorry for forcing you to make one. > we should be explicit about it, too. Otherwise, the list archive > location would look like an irrelevant noise to those who wanted to > find the address to report bugs to. > > For example, we can say something like this: > > > Report bugs to the Git mailing list <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> where the > > development and maintenance is primarily done. You do not have to be > > subscribed to the list to send a message there. > +If you want to check to see if the issue has > +been reported already, the list archive can be found at > +<https://public-inbox.org/git/> and other places. I think that one reason I avoided spelling out why giving the archive location was a good thing to do, was that I didn't want to begin a huge list of "please do this and that", scaring away potential bug reporters. I think your "If you want to" solves that problem very nicely. I'll wrap this up later today. Martin
