Comment 6 for bug 30225

On 7-Feb-06, at 2:51 AM, Björn Tillenius wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/30225
>
> Comment:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:37:10AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> ... So while I don't normally like blacklists, I think a better
>> approach
>> here is to have a blacklist of attachments that are hardly ever
>> useful
>> for bug reports (e.g. signature.asc).
>
> It was discussed before, that we should automatically add attachments
> to bugs, but it was decided it was better to make it more explicit.
> I'll bring it up for discussion again, though, before I'll implement
> this. I see a value of making it easy adding attachments via email,
> but
> I don't really like having a blacklist.

Making it explicit means another command for users to learn and
remember, and another potential surprise during the initial learning
curve.

Ideally, we should be able to apply some simple heuristics to make
this Just Work.

Cheers,

--
Brad Bollenbach