MaloneEmailInterfaceUserDoc v2 (was: Re: Malone email interface)

[Bjorn Tillenius]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:07:15PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Brad Bollenbach writes ("MaloneEmailInterfaceUserDoc v2 (was: Re: Malone email interface)"):
> > I've significantly reformatted, updated, and humanized this document:
> > <https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/MaloneEmailInterfaceUserDoc>
> The document should say what I should expect in response to one of
> these mails.  (At the moment LP seems to be ignoring my messages and
> I'm not sure why.  Surely it should send me a nak or something?)

The email interface is currently down due to a bug. A fixed is ready,
but it's waiting to be rolled out. It should be back up again tomorrow.
Sorry about that.

> And, the document it should say how I can send messages with mixed
> commands and text (or textual data) and be sure that only the commands
> are interpreted.  Is there a ` done' I can use to stop processing ?
> 
> The `indent your commands' thing is a bit silly really because it's
> predicated on the idea that I might want the system to pluck my
> commands out of running text.  That's a bit like the way Internet
> Exploder will look inside your text emails to see if they contain
> uuencode start marks - it's just a bad idea.  The message format
> should make it unambiguous which parts are commands and which parts
> are comment text.

Yeah, I think that we will change it so that commands have to be in the
beginning of the email, and that they don't have to be indented. I will
try to find time to write up a mini-spec how to do it exactly, and to
get the idea approved be a few people.

Regards,

Bjorn