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Re: Future of gccbug
- From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:27:57 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Future of gccbug
- Reply-to: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
On 7 Nov, Rainer Orth wrote:
> Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> apart from PR 12900 we haven't had any submissions of PRs via gccbug in
>> the last couple of months (according to Daniel's statistics).
>
> I doubt that: I've submitted a couple in September, October and just
> November 4th (with more to come).
Hmmm. Seems like the statistics are incorrect.
>> This raises the question: Should the 3.4 release really contain this
>> script? Or should we rather rip it out now to simplify maintenance?
>
> Where's the maintenance burden for that script? It just works, the
> infrastructure for conversion to bugzilla is in place, and it's used by at
> least a couple of users.
>
> Why break this when there's no gain but a unsubstantiated claim of
> `simplified maintenance'? This has been discussed before, and I can only
> point out the importance of offline bug submission and proper bug report
> formatting/editing.
Well, the bugzilla interface slowly diverges from gccbug, since nobody
does the maintenance. A quick glace at the code of gccbug gives:
SEND-PR: doc-bug The documentation is incorrect.
SEND-PR: accepts-illegal GCC fails to reject erroneous code.
SEND-PR: rejects-legal GCC gives an error message for correct code.
SEND-PR: wrong-code The machine code generated by gcc is incorrect.
SEND-PR: ice-on-legal-code GCC gives an Internal Compiler Error (ICE)
SEND-PR: for correct code
SEND-PR: ice-on-illegal-code GCC gives an ICE instead of reporting an error
SEND-PR: pessimizes-code GCC misses an important optimization opportunity
SEND-PR: sw-bug Software bug of some other class than above
SEND-PR: change-request A feature in GCC is missing.
SEND-PR: support I need help with gcc.
This is quite different from the set of keywords we do have in bugzilla.
So I doubt "proper bug report formatting/editing" with gccbug.
We're close to extracting the relavant information out of
gccbug-submissions by hand, because the automatic conversion
cannot do this job. And at that point I don't see much difference
between gccbug and plain mail.
Regards,
Volker