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Re: Future of gccbug
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:39:39PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Andrew Pinski <apinski@apple.com> writes:
>
> | On Nov 7, 2003, at 8:28 AM, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> |
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > 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).
> |
> | One more today, PR12943, funny how things happen right after sending
> | that email.
>
> I'm not sure we should rip it out.
The SC has received complaints from RMS on our practice of deprecating
ways other than bugzilla to send bug reports. He points out that the
GNU standard says that, for any GNU tool named TOOL, one can send bugs to
gnu-TOOL@gnu.org
(in our case this forwards to gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org).
We can certainly tell people that Bugzilla is preferred, but we can't cut
off ways other than Bugzilla to file bugs. There are a lot of folks
(particularly in the 3rd world) who have email access but no or limited
web access.
So, I'd like to see gccbug modernized and supported. I'd also like us to
change language that we have used in various places saying that email
reports might be ignored. We can tell people that we prefer that they
use Bugzilla if at all possible. If gccbug is modernized, then we can
tell people with email-only access that gccbug is recommended as second
choice. Then there will be very few bugs that get reported directly to
the bug list without a script, and it shouldn't be too hard to catch
those.