Steering committee request regarding gcc's bugzilla

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:14:36AM -0600, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
> 
> > Please allow gcc's bugzilla to also be used by binutils.  I think it
> > makes sense to share the infrastructure as binutils and gcc are closely
> > related.
> 
> I'm not quite sure whether this is a good idea. It seems to me as if the 
> people presently working on bugzilla are no binutils experts, so what 
> would be the benefit of having the two in the same data base? I've seen 
> maybe 10 bugs (out of 13000) that turned out to be binutils bugs instead 
> of gcc bugs. Why not set up a different bugzilla elsewhere? At least I'd 
> like to see more convincing arguments why the two should reside in the 
> same database.

Well, elsewhere would most probably mean on the same box.  binutils and
glibc CVS is on the same box as gcc CVS.

If we have 3 or 4 different databases (gcc, binutils, glibc, gdb?), then
I think it will mean more maintenance than sharing the same, just using
different components.

	Jakub