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We shouldn't tell people to send e-mail to gcc-bugs
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:14:46 -0700
- Subject: We shouldn't tell people to send e-mail to gcc-bugs
It seems to me that e-mail to gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org is basically lost in
the noise. It seems to me that we should not recommend that people send
bug reports there; the chances that anything will happen are much
smaller than the already small chance that anybody will fix their
bugzilla bug report. I propose the following patch to
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html.
Does anybody think this would be unwise?
Ian
Index: bugs.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs.html,v
retrieving revision 1.97
diff -u -r1.97 bugs.html
--- bugs.html 2 Nov 2007 20:07:35 -0000 1.97
+++ bugs.html 23 Jul 2009 17:11:29 -0000
@@ -135,10 +135,7 @@
<p>Please submit your bug report directly to the
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/";>GCC bug database</a>.
Alternatively, you can use the <code>gccbug</code> script that mails your bug
-report to the bug database.
-<br />
-Only if all this is absolutely impossible, mail all information to
-<a href="mailto:gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org";>gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org</a>.</p>
+report to the bug database.</p>
<h2><a name="detailed">Detailed bug reporting instructions</a></h2>