Steering committee request regarding gcc's bugzilla

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

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.

Personally, I agree with Wolfgang.  I don't think we'll need to move
back and forth between the DBs very often anyway.

I'm biased - I want one for GDB also, and I don't really want to
renumber all the existing GNATS PRs.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer