Inconsistent commands for multi-word statuses in email

[John A Meinel]

The code review email commands are similar to, but diverge slightly from the ones for bug reports.

Specifically, I believe the request is:

  vote needs_fixing
  (although 'needsfixing' and 'needs-fixing' also work -- jml)

but for bugs it is

  status fixreleased

Since email is sort of "fire-off-and-hope-you-got-the-syntax-right" it is probably best to accept more possibilites.

Anyway, I always get screwed over by stuff like vote and status because they are multi-word entries but doing:
  status fix released

gives errors about it only accepting 1 argument.

It would at least be nice if the method of turning 2 words into 1 argument was consistent across the different email interfaces.

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

 vote needs-fixing
 vote needsfixing
 vote needs_fixing

All work, and all do the same thing. Although this doesn't match bugs exactly, I wouldn't have thought that the extra permissiveness caused confusion.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

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Jonathan Lange wrote:
> vote needs-fixing
> vote needsfixing
> vote needs_fixing
>
> All work, and all do the same thing. Although this doesn't match bugs
> exactly, I wouldn't have thought that the extra permissiveness caused
> confusion.
>

I find the email interfaces difficult in general, because it requires me
to internalize a random syntax. Not terrible, but certainly not as
obvious as a drop-down list.

Anyway, somehow I discovered that "needs_fixing" works, and so started
using it. Then I went to update a bug, and found that "fix_released"
does *not* work.

I would probably prefer more flexibility, but the fact that the bug
emails *don't* support it is confusing.

(I originally thought that it was "vote needs_fixing" always and "status
fixreleased" always, which was the original point of this bug.)

Also, email interfaces aren't really something that I want to fire off
several emails to see which thing really works...

John
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[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

In that case, I reckon I'll re-assign the bug to malone and tweak the description a bit.