Re: Switch from gnats to Bugzilla?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:56:44PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 11:20:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>It looks like our gcc counterparts are migrating to Bugzilla.
>>>
>>>I was wondering if it would be a good time to switch gdb to Bugzilla,
>>>too.
>>>
>>>IMO, Bugzilla is superior to GNATS.  The interface is more intuitive
>>>and it can even be linked to CVS (I believe).
>>>
>>>There is a long discussion of this subject here:
>
>Long was an understatement :-)
>
>>>http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg00454.html
>>>
>>>I'm willing to do the work if there is agreement that it is a good
>>>thing.
>>
>>
>>FWIW, I agree completely.
>
>To do the political side step.  I'd suggest waiting until there is a 
>firm decision from the GCC steering committe on a go/no-go.  If GCC 
>decide to change, I can't see any reason for GDB to not follow. 
>However, I've enough other headaches without trying to be the one 
>blazing this particular trail.
>
>Web-wize, yes I agree that bugzilla is better (I've too much experience 
>filing mozilla bugs :-).  I think the comment about web interface 
>performance is bogus.  I should know, I lived behind a 28k modem with 
>>500ms latency and survived :-)
>
>E-mail wize, the GCC thread suggests the people on the list understand 
>the issues - need to be able to submit, reply and see updates via 
>e-mail.  It isn't reasonable to assume that everyone has permenant IP 
>connectivity and <100ms latency.

That's fine with me.  I've volunteered to help with this anyway, so I
figured it wouldn't be that much harder to set this up for both gdb and
gcc if/when the time comes.

If the consensus was that Bugzilla wasn't a good solution for gdb, though,
I'd only have to do one...

cgf