Reporting GCC bugs

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> skribis:
>
>> Requiring an account with a valid e-mail address is
>> an unfortunate necessity on the current Internet,
>
> Several GNU projects have been using Debbugs at <http://bugs.gnu.org/>
> for some time.  It doesn’t require subscription.
>
> I’ve never seen any spam there, perhaps thanks to Savannah’s shared spam
> filters.  More importantly, it’s very convenient for most
> hackers–there’s even a pleasant Emacs mode to browse bugs.

At first glance, it looks to be a fairly different kind of system: it
looks like you can only report bugs by e-mail.  GCC used to use a
system like that: GNATS.  Bugzilla is working quite a bit better for
GCC.

Not that I'm opposed to changing if people really think it would be better.

Ian