Re: abusing the list for bug-buddy

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 9/9/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds great to me.  Do it!  Do it!

Cheers,
Elijah