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Re: We shouldn't tell people to send e-mail to gcc-bugs
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:02:39 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: We shouldn't tell people to send e-mail to gcc-bugs
- References: <m34ot37249.fsf@google.com>
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> It seems to me that e-mail to gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org is basically lost
> in the noise. It seems to me that we should not recommend that people
> send bug reports there; the chances that anything will happen are much
> smaller than the already small chance that anybody will fix their
> bugzilla bug report. I propose the following patch to
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html.
This looks like a reasonable idea.
Gerald
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<p>Please submit your bug report directly to the
<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/";>GCC bug database</a>.
Alternatively, you can use the <code>gccbug</code> script that mails your bug
-report to the bug database.
-<br />
-Only if all this is absolutely impossible, mail all information to
-<a href="mailto:gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org";>gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org</a>.</p>
+report to the bug database.</p>
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