On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, there are such advantages to using bugzilla, but the above listed
> steps are a lot more overhead for submission of trivial patches than
>
> cvs diff foo.c | mail -s "Trivial patch to foo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> For a very short patch like this:
Isn't the number of patches where you don't want:
- An explanation of what is wrong
- A bug number to be ability to refer to the change later
- The ability to add further comments to the bug report
if more information is needed
Really tiny? At least for GTK+, a good fraction
of the "trivial patches that don't need further explanation"
people send in tend to be of the form:
- /* use widget */
+ if (widget)
+ /* use widget */
[...]
> diff -u -r1.13 xf86MiscExt.c
> --- xf86MiscExt.c 3 Apr 2003 16:15:56 -0000 1.13
> +++ xf86MiscExt.c 4 Jun 2003 18:44:04 -0000
> @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@
> {
> ScrnInfoPtr pScr = xf86Screens[scrnIndex];
>
> - DEBUG_P("MiscExtGetFilePaths");
> + DEBUG_P("MiscExtPassMessage");
>
> if (*pScr->HandleMessage == NULL)
> return BadImplementation;
>
> a simpler submission method seems more appropriate.
>
> Anyone know anything more about the mythical email interface to bugzilla?
We have some patches in the bugzilla.gnome.org to allow it, but:
- Patching bugzilla extensively degrades your ability
to upgrade to newer versions, so take the advice of experience,
try to avoid it.
- Bugzilla really doesn't want to send mail to people without
accounts; so, if you get a bug submitted by a non-account-holder
it's sort of "second class"
Something more sophisticated (email creation of accounts, etc)
is certainly theortically possible, but I don't know of an
implementation.
Regards,
Owen
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