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With the release of Bug-Buddy 2.16 I am going to deprecate the email interface used by older Bug-Buddy versions. It will still be supported for at least a year after bug-buddy has been released. After that the official support will be over. In practice this means that I will not add the email interface Bug-Buddy support to the first bugzilla.gnome.org after around Sep 2007. So it could be that the support goes on until 2010. Or that it ends on 10 Sep 2007. Of course, if there is a person really wanting to have the interface stay alive, then I'll gladly make them maintainer of the existing interface when 2.16.0 is out. Note that it has lots of issues (readability of the code being just one of them) and it is only reliable when bug-buddy mails to it. Plus it requires a Bugzilla part that needs changing every time Bugzilla is upgraded. I have gotten an ok from the release team that I am not totally crazy. Note that older bug-buddy already have code in them to tell the user to upgrade 6 months (or so) after compilation. Some stats on the number of Bug-Buddy bugs filed per day for the past week or so: * Bug-Buddy < 2.15.0: ~50 bugs/day * Bug-Buddy >= 2.15.0: ~40 bugs/day I believe we should be getting as high as 1000 bugreports/day from Bug-Buddy versions < 2.15.0, but because of the email interface sucking (requiring sendmail, outgoing port, etc) most of that is lost. Obviously I will be working on avoiding 1000 bugreports a day (would make Bugzilla unusable), by giving developers the ability to reject certain (known) stacktraces for a specific version and product. I will send another mail to explain what needs to be done to make your app work with Bug-Buddy 2.16.0 because it is *much* stricter than before. Most problematic products should already have gotten a bugreport though. Please wait until that email if you want to discuss the new Bug-Buddy. -- Regards, Olav -- devel-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list
