Links between bugzilla and gccwiki

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Thu Jan 20 23:44:00 GMT 2005



On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Joe Buck wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>> gccwiki has always had a syntax to link to bug reports, but the reverse
>> has not been true.
>>
>> I have modified Bugzilla to allow links to gccwiki pages simply by putting
>> them in [[]]
>>
>> IE writing [[Improved alias analysis]] in a bugzilla comment will be
>> turned into a link to the Improved alias analysis page on the gccwiki.
>>
>> Hopefully, when people are writing bug reports that include future plans,
>> etc, they can simply reference the approriate page on the Wiki.
>
> Nice feature, but ...
>
> Up to now, the "GCC Wiki" was something that you were running on your
> site; it was basically your project to run as you wish.

Uh, okay.
>  Tying it in to
> Bugzilla this way makes it much more official.

I can remove it if you guys, it was just a requested feature by a 
couple developers, so i implemented it.
I never bothered to think of the political implications of adding urls to 
bugzilla :)

> If we do this, shouldn't
> we put the GCC Wiki on gcc.gnu.org, instead of having it on your personal
> site?

I'm happy to do this if people want.

So would you like me to remove the linking pending the outcome of that 
discussion?



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