Re: Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available.

Pete Zaitcev
2002-11-15T16:42:02Z

>> 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?

Requestors and anyone with an account can add a list to 'cc' field,
so updates will get to the list. As for gatewaying from lists to
Bugzilla, I _strongly_ oppose it, and I hope DaveM would support me.
It's a door for spam and nothing else. If you have no IP connectivity
and read your linux-kernel with FIDO gateway and GoldED, use normal
ways of cooperating with maintainers. Bugzilla is complimentary,
not mandatory.

-- Pete