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Aaron Bentley (abentley) wrote : Re: [Bug 387683] [NEW] Cover letter for emailed merge proposal silently discarded

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:

> As you can see from the original email, there's a lengthy "cover letter"
> in that email explaining the patch. Yet there is no sign of that text
> on the web page for that proposal, or in the email I received from
> Launchpad informing me that merge proposal was created.

That is indeed a bug. It doesn't happen to everyone, so it's been
unclear what the root cause is. Thanks for attaching the raw mail.
That will help.

> I expected the text of the original email to be visible on the merge
> proposal, perhaps as the first "comment".

That's what usually happens.

> As best I
> can tell the current process is "send request; wait a minute or five for
> email to reach LP and be processed; find web page for new merge proposal
> somehow;

That's a little worrying. When you create a merge proposal, you should
receive email about it, and that should include the URL.

Aaron
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