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Re: bug-glibc usage...
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams at kemisten dot nu>
- Cc: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:33:44 -0800
- Subject: Re: bug-glibc usage...
> > At the time that people all gave up on bug-glibc, the biggest
> > problem was that it was almost entirely spam, and its archives
> > were so full of spam you couldn't find something if you looked.
>
> Hm. Then I think it should be closed when bugzilla is operational
> with a bounce telling people to use bugzilla instead, and the
> mailing list archives should be filtered using spamassasin to
> extract the valid bug reports.
>
> I don't think this is a good idea, I personally prefer to reports bugs
> via email. And I am quite sure that many prefer the same means. Also
> reacall that most (if not all) GNU projects have a bug-* list; making
> glibc standout seems like a bad idea to me...
It has long been the specified procedure to use the `glibcbug' script. It
does in fact send email, but it is reasonable that you be required to use a
fixed format. The GCC bugzilla system is drivable by email, though I'm not
positive off hand how you make an initial report that way. Getting this
clear and making the `glibcbug' script work that way is something we will
be figuring out ASAP.