Re: How to add a patch to bugzilla?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

John Margaglione <jmargaglione yahoo com> writes:

> Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:41:00PM +0100, egger suse de wrote:
> > >
> > >  It would be nice if patches were automatically exported to the ftp
> > >  site. Bugzilla is the place to add them though. Owen, Manish and I
> > >  discussed this already.
> > >
> > >  Martin, do you see a chance to implement this?
> > >
> > 
> > Even if it were possible to export patches from bugzilla in some
> > meaningful way, it would not have any value at all.  The only important
> > thing where patches are concerned is that they eventually get addressed.
> > The ftp site was never good at this; but I'm going to take a leap and
> > assume that having the info in bugzilla is working much better.
> 
> Sounds like I should upload something to the ftp server as well.  Is
> this the case?

No. We probably will have some mechanism for querying for all
outstanding patches without going through the web to make 
people without good connectivity happy, but that will be built
on top of bugzilla, and extract the patches from bugzilla.

It can only confuse things to have patches in two places.

Thanks,
                                        Owen