[ESS] Bug report submission failure

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Anush V via ESS-help 
>>>>>     on Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:58:10 -0400 writes:

    > Hello ESS maintainers,


    > I encountered an issue while attempting to submit a bug
    > report via M-x ess-submit-bug-report (as documented in
    > info:ess#Reporting Bugs).  The email was returned
    > undelivered with the error below. I’m forwarding it for
    > your reference.

    > Thank you for your time.

    > Regards, Anush V

Thank you, Anush (for *both* your e-mails).

Indeed, after my fellow ESS core members have urged ourselves to
become modern and move our code/etc to github,
they later also urged me to close down the
ess-bugs using r-project.org address (which formally was a mailing
list like this one, ess-help).

Unfortunately, we have not adapted the
   (defun ess-submit-bug-report ... )
emacs lisp code.
I don't think that one can send an e-mail to something
@github.com to automatically open an issue (well, hopefully not,
you'd at least need a github account and some authentication .. !).

I have now changed this:  M-x ess-submit-bug-report   now 
- would send the report to ess-help using .. (i.e., _this_ list),
- but at the same time recommend that the bug reporter *instead* opens a GH issue.

It shows like this, now (after my push to the github ess master
branch):

  -------------------------------------------------------------
  This bug report will be sent to the ESS _help_ email list
  >>> _INSTEAD_ we strongly recommend you open an issue for this
      at  https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/issues .

  If you still prefer to use the ESS help email, press C-c C-c to send your message.
  -------------------------------------------------------------


Thank you for your reports -- helping to make ESS better!

Best regards,
Martin


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Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich   and  R core  and  ESS core team