Status of Bugzilla?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Phil Edwards wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:58:26PM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> >     I don't recall you ever filing, closing or replying to a GNATS report.
> > 
> > Right.  And the fact that it's a web interface is one of the reasons for that!
> > Which is my point.
> 
> Huh?  I use email to do everything except the 'closing' part, and for that

And a nice feature to have (not a blocker) would be if the system where
CVS log messages can specify PRs and get the log message appended to them
(only one PR per log message, at present) were extended so that multiple
bugs could be specified, and a subset of them closed (the rest just
getting the log message appended).  Since when you're fixing a bug by
committing a patch to fix it, it should suffice to commit the patch
without needing separate closing by either web or mail.  I suppose this
could be done by making log_accum talk the Bugzilla XML email interface?

(Note that patches can be committed that only partially address a bug, so
there would need to be clearly documented syntax for both closing a bug
and just appending a CVS log message to a bug.)

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk