Re: Does the bug tracker actually work?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:41:45AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com> writes:
> > > So, does bugs.gnome.org actually work
> >
> > The tracker is kind of fucked. It works "sometimes".
> 
> Ah.  I guessed as much, given that there are some recent bugs in there.
> 
> > We need a volunteer to write a script to shovel all the debbugs into
> > bugzilla. :-) Anyone?
> 
> I could possibly do this - what is involved?
> 

I would guess: 

 - set up bugzilla (maybe we could do this for you) and start
   sending new bugs there
 - figure out how to extract all the bugs from bugs.gnome.org via
   script
 - figure out how to import bugs to bugzilla via script
 - do the translation there (debbugs->bugzilla) to get our old 
   bugs in bugzilla
 - maybe we need to make submit@bugs.gnome.org accept the old 
   debbugs format emails but put them in bugzilla, or maybe it 
   could just bounce a message back to the sender like "please
   go to http://bugs.gnome.org/ and enter the bug on the web"

We haven't actually made an official decision to switch to bugzilla,
but I'm guessing not too many people will object, given how badly
bugs.gnome.org is sucking...

Havoc