The Bugzilla developers pinged me regarding the GNOME Bugzilla version. So I checked a bit into what changes we have. One of the big difference vs upstream that is hard to change into an extension is the way Bug-Buddy interacts with Bugzilla. It was meant to use the standard XML-RPC method, but unfortunately the API changed after we used it. Furthermore, Bug-Buddy actually creates new users in Bugzilla and never really investigates if that email address belong to the user (tradeoff between security and easy of use). That is something that upstream obviously never does.
Since Bug-Buddy was created, there have been other tools to catch crashers. The one I know is ABRT; I know it can interact with Bugzilla, but that requires you to fill in your Bugzilla account information in ABRT. Other than that, I have 0 knowledge regarding ABRT. That all said, I propose killing bug-buddy and recommending the usage of ABRT. As mentioned, I don't know if this makes sense; but really hope it does. I'm guessing we'll need to work with the various distributions to ensure the crashers still get sent to us. Comments / advice? -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
