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Re: Future of gccbug
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:21:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: Future of gccbug
> We can certainly tell people that Bugzilla is preferred, but we can't cut
> off ways other than Bugzilla to file bugs. There are a lot of folks
> (particularly in the 3rd world) who have email access but no or limited
> web access.
Frankly, if people use gccbug, then this might work, but there is no way we
can promise that we read (and remember) messages on a mailing list. RMS might
want to have it this way, but it's just not going to work: things have to be
recorded in a permanent place where you can search for it (including
searching for unconfirmed bugs if I have an hour at the end of the week).
I wrote the section in the manual that sending mail to the mailing is
deprecated and I am not about to change my mind about it -- our volume of new
bugs is just too high to ever think about keeping up with random messages and
putting them into the database.
W.
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