Re: Does the bug tracker actually work?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com> writes:
> Last week I posted a patch on this list for gnome-terminal, and I was
> told to submit it to the bug tracker.  Since then I have come up with a
> second patch, fixing a minor bug in zvt.
> 
> I sent both of these patches to the submit@bugs.gnome.org, but I've had no
> response and they have not appeared in the tracker.  Is it broken?  I
> also emailed one of the patches to gnome-core-maint@gnome.org - again,
> no response.
> 
> I have now submitted the patches to the Helixcode tracker, which at
> least responds to the submissions.
> 
> So, does bugs.gnome.org actually work, or am I failing some initiation
> ritual that makes submitting patches extra difficult.
> 

The tracker is kind of fucked. It works "sometimes".

We need a volunteer to write a script to shovel all the debbugs into
bugzilla. :-) Anyone?

Havoc