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Re: Future of gccbug
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:11:59PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > gnat-dev@buzco.nyct.net writes:
| >
| > | I find the mail and WWW interfaces +both+ useful, but it would be nicer
| > | if bugzilla mail +visibly+ came from bugzilla.
| >
| > I would add one more whish. Threads managed by bugzilla is painful to
| > follow: The reason is that it does not keep proper references. The end
| > result is a "flat" thread where every reply gets paranted by the first
| > message, instead of the usual thread tree.
|
| Yes, it goes into "Kenner mode" because (the last time I investigated this,
And Dan keeps saying the contrary. :-(
[...]
| One little-known fact that has occasionally proved useful to me is that
| the mailing list software itself can serve up indices and retrieve old
| messages. Before the web archives had a "view in raw mode" link, for
| example, and saving a patch from gcc-patches would change '>' into '>',
| I would get the useful form of patches by sending a retrieval message to
| the list software, and getting a text version that way. You could do the
| same thing with gcc-bugs, although it would be somewhat inconvenient.
I think that works only if one has the thread number. What was
possible with GNATS is querying with the PR number.
-- Gaby