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Re: Patch: One version number to rule them all
Daniel Berlin writes:
> > There's a conversion script on gcc.gnu.org which massages the mail
> > submissions for use with bugzilla.
>
> Which is a massively ugly hack and is sure to stop working at some
> point, and i won't be able to fix it.
> Just FYI :)
But right now it works well enough, and I don't see a completely unrelated
patch as enough justification to remove what we have now.
> > It works fine (more or less), and
> > gccbug is the only way to submit bugs via email, so please keep it around.
>
>
> I hate to say it, but this just isn't good enough of a reason.
>
> we get 1-2 bugs via email a month.
>
> Except for the ones by long time emailers, of them don't contain
> approriate info for reproducing the bug, and often end up getting closed
> because the person never later attaches preprocessed source.
>
>
> Or they attempt to paste 1 meg of preprocessed source into the email,
> whch is just as bad.
So you suggest that gccbug invites bad bug reports? I don't buy this; it's
just as easy to create useless reports via a web front end. On the other
hand, why seriously inconvenience those long time emailers (which, I might
add, usually produce complete and useful reports) for no particular reason?
This might well loose some of them completely, which would be a shame.
Besides, I think the GNU Coding Standards still call for a way to submit
bug reports via email, and gccbug provides a useful framework for this.
Rainer