On 5/9/05, JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ? > > Yes. The ideal way might be to use bugzilla for patches and see if we > could get automated mails to e-p containing the bug number, product, > component and summary (and a link) if a patch is attachment is set on a > bug.
Sounds somewhat similar to the automated patch-nagging we were planning on doing (though that was more aimed at patches that had been in bugzilla for a long time without being reviewed, but I'm sure the same code could be used to do something like this). I think this sounds reasonable. Elijah _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
