Re: Bugzilla for GNOME (was Re: GNOME CVS: nautilus mathieu)

[Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>]

> Adding Bugzilla support to bug-buddy is much better than an email interface;
> this'll also allow us to add some ideas from
> http://bugzilla.eazel.com/helper.html.

I disagree. Using a web interface requires that you (a) have an account on
the Bugzilla, (b) log into this account, (c) do HTTP POSTs and other such
things to send it to the server. This means that bug-buddy will have to
depend on some HTTP library, such as libghttp or gnome-vfs. Suck.

An email interface allows you to (a) queue up mail if you are not
connected, since sendmail/exim/whatever will hold it until it can send it
without blocking the GUI and (b) requires no additional software than what
comes with your system. Just fork and exec sendmail, baby. Oh, and it
doesn't require rearchitecturing bug-buddy.

Joe