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

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Alan is right IMO, we need to support the old submit bugs gnome org
> address and format. The format is totally trivial; so if you can write
> a script that gets these mails (procmail will do that) and has some
> way to talk to Bugzilla, it's not rocket science.
> 
> We can start using Bugzilla before that though, just leave
> submit bugs gnome org working and going into the old tracker, and when
> someone does the migration script we move all those bugs.
> 

We'd need to make sure we start at a bug number higher than anything
in the old tracker, for reasons stated by Owen, so we can preserve bug
numbers when carrying the bugs over.

 - Maciej