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Re: GNATS web interface unusable
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "tromey at redhat dot com" <tromey at redhat dot com>, Daniel Berlin <dan at dberlin dot org>, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at attbi dot com>, David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:44:26 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: GNATS web interface unusable
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> This is a change of topic, but I believe that one of the single
> biggest guidelines in our use of bugzilla be that we modify the
> bugzilla source code proper somewhere between "not at all" and
> "almost nowhere". Obviously, hacking up web templates, and using
> the designed interfaces for concocting the right set of states and
> so forth makes sense, but I'd strongly prefer that we not change
> the code itself.
We should follow similar rules to other upstream code; change it if
necessary to do what we want, but make the changes add configurability
rather than hardcoding something different, and get them accepted by the
Bugzilla maintainers before applying them locally.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk