Merge from trunk.

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/admin/notes/bugtracker b/admin/notes/bugtracker
index dd1ea46ceb2..ee385f4dd75 100644
--- 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:
 
@@ -270,32 +270,35 @@ to a bug.  There are two differences between normal tags and user tags:
 1) Anyone can define any valid usertag they like.  In contrast, only a
 limited, predefined set of normal tags are available (see above).
 
-2) A usertag is associated with a specific email address.
+2) A usertag is associated with a specific user.  This is normally
+an email address (with an "@" sign and least 4 characters after the "@"),
+but on debbugs.gnu.org, the definition is less strict - anything with
+5 or more alphanumeric characters will work.  For personal tags,
+using an email address is still recommended.  Please only use the
+"emacs" user, or other short users, for "official" tags.
 
-You set usertags in the same way as tags, by talking to the control
-server.  One difference is that you can also specify the associated
-email address.  If you don't explicitly specify an address, then it
-will use the one from which you send the control message. The address
-must have the form of an email address (with an "@" sign and least 4
-characters after the "@").
+You set usertags in the same way as tags, by talking to the control server.
+One difference is that you can also specify the associated user.
+If you don't explicitly specify a user, then it will use the email
+address from which you send the control message.
 
 *** Setting usertags
 
 a) In a control message:
 
-user bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+user emacs      # or email@example.com
 usertags 1234 any-tag-you-like
 
 This will add a usertag "any-tag-you-like" to bug 1234.  The tag will
-be associated with the address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org".  If you omit
-the first line, the tag will be associated with your email address.
+be associated with the user "emacs".  If you omit the first line,
+the tag will be associated with your email address.
 
 The syntax of the usertags command is the same as that of tags (eg wrt
 the optional [=+-] argument).
 
 b) In an initial submission, in the pseudo-header:
 
-User: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+User: emacs
 Usertags: a-new-tag
 
 Again, the "User" is optional.
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=users
 
 **** To find all bugs usertagged by a given email address:
 
-http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=emacs
 
 (Supposedly, the "users" field can be a comma-separated list of more
 than one email address, but it does not seem to work for me.)
@@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ than one email address, but it does not seem to work for me.)
 This works just like a normal tags search, but with the addition of a
 "users" field.  Eg:
 
-http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org;tag=calendar
+http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?users=emacs;tag=calendar
 
 *** To merge bugs:
 Eg when bad replies create a bunch of new bugs for the same report.
@@ -610,7 +613,7 @@ An /etc/aliases entry redirects it to the real emacs-bug-tracker address.
 All discarded messages are stored in /var/lib/mailman/spam.
 If a non-spam message accidentally gets discarded, just do:
 
-cat /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg | /usr/lib/debbugs/receive
+/usr/lib/debbugs/receive < /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg
 chown Debian-debbugs:Debian-debbugs /var/lib/debbugs/spool/incoming/*
 ... check it works ...
 mv /var/lib/mailman/spam/not-really-spam.msg /var/lib/mailman/not-spam/
@@ -618,6 +621,16 @@ 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,
@@ -640,3 +653,14 @@ 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.