abusing the list for bug-buddy

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

So, I'm thinking... bug-buddy does things all wrong. It tries to guess
the product, then asks the user to guess the component (and sometimes
the product), and sends that all up to the server, along with the
(guaranteed correct, right?) binary name. As a result, we pop up
little messages about updating that are confusing, we guess wrong, we
ask people to store all this weird data in .desktop files, etc.

Seems like what we should be doing is *just* sending the information
we have about binary name and version and letting the server parse
that information and pick what product/component to shove it into.
[Most bug filers can't figure out component right anyway, so just
shoving it into 'general' shouldn't be much worse than the current
situation.] [If it is another bugzilla, which AFAIK is a feature that
no one actually uses anymore, then we could just have the server pump
it into an email and send it on from there.]

So... anyway, does anyone disagree that in principle this is the right
thing to do? I'd like to create a bug for implementing this and close
out several 'bug-buddy doesn't update right' bugs as dups of this.

Luis