Aren't people
supposed to be searching Bugzilla first ?
The bugzilla mails to the list are not mainly for people who would otherwise post bugs, it is mainly for people who can help fix bugs. It allows distributed bug resolution. Before the bugzilla list, bugzilla traffic was much lower.
Sorry if I'm being dense (I'm pretty new to the undocumented Cooker social protocols and I'm not about to try searching the ML for "bugzilla"), but if someone is interested in working on bugs in one or several product areas, wouldn't it just be simpler to run a Bugzilla query every day/week/month/whatever for all bugs in those areas since the last time you queried ? That would avoid wading through all of the bug reports for those areas that don't interest you.
Of course, every time I try to run complex bugzilla searches, I get 500 Internal Server Errors....
If they run into something,
searching Bugzilla seems a lot more straightforward than hoping that you
remember some mail that flew by a month or so ago.
For me, it is much quicker to search through my 3-6-month archive of the bugzilla mails, than to even get to the bugzilla search page.
Again, I ask from ignorance, but would it be possible to register with Bugzilla for a product category (rather than a specific bug) so that you would get mails for any activity in that product category ?
Also, one of the problems with Bugzilla is that certain categories (like
Installation) bypass sending mail to anybody at Mandrake *except* the
Cooker ML.
File a bug on Bugzilla (not bugzilla ... IIRC).
I'll be happy to, but since it was only the Installation category where I noticed this (you get told that mail will *not* be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), I sort of figured it was intentional :-)
Thanks, Frank
