Bug reporting [Was: Re: [PATCH] change gnats.html to fix web/8168]

[Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ticam dot utexas dot edu>]

Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> (But ideally, for the case of ICEs, the gcc driver should be able to
> package all the information needed - .i file, options, versions, ... -
> ready for submission, and tell you exactly what files to send.)

One of the unfortunate consequences would be that people start sending the 
.i file of their original project, rather than trying to cut it down as 
much as possible, if gcc would just set up everything for mailing upon 
first hitting the ICE. I think, if I have to fill everything into a form 
like on the web interface, including a description of what is going wrong, 
I'm more tempted to isolate the problem. Given the shortage of people 
fixing bugs, this seems like something one should encourage.

Regards
  Wolfgang

PS: Some time ago, Daniel Berlin had this nice copy of the GNATS database 
converted to Bugzilla running. There was a long discussion, and the 
general consensus seemed to be in favor of switching to Bugzilla. What 
happened to that?

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