Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:09:15PM CET, I got a letter,
where Robert Love <[e-mail]> told me, that...
> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:42, Paul Larson wrote:
> 
> > That being said, I guess this should have been the first question:
> > Should bugs reported to bugme still be posted here (or elsewhere when
> > appropriate)?  I would assume so, at least for a while.
> 
> Yes!
> 
> The bugzilla database is a great idea but it should remain a database
> i.e. a list.  Discussion and the initial reporting of bugs should remain
> on the relevant lists _please_.

What about using the bugzilla email gateway? While it would be feasible that
bugs should be added through the web interface, why not to automagically
forward changes (new comments, attachments, maybe also status?) to appropriate
mailing lists and absorb the replies to the thread back to bugzilla as the new
comments? Ok, this would require people to cut the Cc soon enough not to stack
100-messages thread slowly evolving to completely different topic into bugzilla
;-).

If there is an interest in this and noone else is overly keen to do it, I would
be willing to investigate this and check the functionality of the email gateway
in bugzilla's contrib/ and possibly extend/fix it for our usage.

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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