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Re: Reporting GCC bugs
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> skribis:
>
>> Requiring an account with a valid e-mail address is
>> an unfortunate necessity on the current Internet,
>
> Several GNU projects have been using Debbugs at <http://bugs.gnu.org/>
> for some time. It doesn’t require subscription.
>
> I’ve never seen any spam there, perhaps thanks to Savannah’s shared spam
> filters. More importantly, it’s very convenient for most
> hackers–there’s even a pleasant Emacs mode to browse bugs.
At first glance, it looks to be a fairly different kind of system: it
looks like you can only report bugs by e-mail. GCC used to use a
system like that: GNATS. Bugzilla is working quite a bit better for
GCC.
Not that I'm opposed to changing if people really think it would be better.
Ian