On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 20:05 +0530, Harish Krishnaswamy wrote: > hi All, > > During the irc meeting last week, we discussed the pros and cons of > deprecating evolution-patches and using bugzilla as the treasure > bag for patches. > > > A quick recap of the main points in favor of Bugzilla - > * we tend to 'lose' patches in e-p. Bugzilla is more sticky. > * easier for downstream packagers to release updates. > * b.g.o can be queried for un/reviewed patches. > > the other side of the coin : > * bgo is much slower than reading mails > * you need to be on-line to pull down the patches. > > Fresh thoughts, any ? > > -Harish
This is an area which I have always wanted to work on (since 4 years). Integrate a mailing lists with a POP/IMAP server and integrate that further with a opensource based development tools (for eg. Bugzilla), this project has never seen the day of light. Harsh might have some ideas for the current problem (marking a cc to him). Idea 1 : How about a small and simple utility that takes mails and puts them in bugzilla? Forcasted problems - Spam Solutions - Authentication required for Till date there has been a lot of development over HTTP. What I propose is a development on top of POP/IMAP/SMTP. This will mean we use evolution as a frontend to bugzilla. With evolution-data-server concept sky is the limit for what can be acheived with this infrastucture. Idea 2: bugbuddy currently is used for only filing bugs, a similar tool can be used for patches. Amish. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
