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Re: New bug reporting address
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: New bug reporting address
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:54:38 +0100 (CET)
- cc: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:
> Hmm, this reminded me of an idea I (or someone else? I don't remember) had
> earlier, what about generating an URL like
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html#2.95.2.reload.c.4388
> [...]
> As long as this label doesn't exist in the html file, one will end up at
> the top, but as soon the label exists, you'll immediately see if this bug
> has already been reported and maybe a recommended fix/workaround.
> Especially for the releases this should be quite useful.
This might soon become a maintainance nightmare. I strongly feel that
we should invest and implement a full problem report database (GNATS),
similiar to what the FreeBSD project has.
This has many advantages over the "URL approach" and, as far as I
understood, we plan to implement that anyway.
Gerald
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