On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > If you want to help, I suggest waiting until we can do more than talk; > wait until we can run a real prototype alongside the BTS for a while. > Then all the abstract discussion will be a lot more real, and ideas > about policy and defaults and such will be much more valuable. > > (Is anybody else on -debbugs already working on prototyping something > like this?) > A prototype would require a web site, a domain name, access to a MTA...
Lynx? Should/could curl or wget be used instead/alternatively? Alioth projects are provided with some of this. HP's testdrive doesn't allow incoming on anything but telnet&ftp. Sourceforge and Savannah doesn't seem any more suitable than Alioth. I don't have an always connected computer anymore. So it looks like either another volunteer or one of Debian's project machines (http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi) needs to be used. http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/source/README?rev=1.6&cvsroot=debbugs SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ============================================================================= - GNU date - GNU gzip - Perl 5 (5.005 is known to work) - Mailtools and MIME-tools perl modules to manipulate email - Lynx 2.7 or later - The bug system requires its own mail domain. It comes with code which understands how exim, qmail and sendmail deliver mail for such a domain to a script. - A webserver (this is easiest if the bug system can write directly to the webspace). - Somewhere to run CGI scripts (unless you don't need the web forms for searching for bugs by number, package, maintainer or submitter). Drew Daniels
