Re: gnats -> bugzilla

Christopher Faylor
2008-06-09T21:31:02Z

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 12:28:19PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>Hi everyone.
>
>I'd like gdb to switch from gnats to bugzilla. Gnats is showing its
>age and is annoying to use. I think this is a contributing factor to
>the under-reporting of gdb bugs and general under-use of the gdb bug
>tracker.
>
>My general plan is:
>
>* Write a patch for the documentation and the web site.
>
>* Disable Gnats.
>
>* Get gnats2bz and convert the current database.
> This will renumber all the bugs; I don't consider this a major
> problem.
>
>* Get DannyB to upload this into the current sourceware bugzilla
> instance and check in all the changes.
>
>* Archive the Gnats database.
>
>If you have any objections, speak up.

No objections here. Does this mean we can turn off GNATS on sourceware
for good or does it have to live forever to handle the old URLs that
point into it?

cgf