Re: Getting Bugzilla support into Bug-buddy

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:29:20PM +0100, Martin Baulig wrote:
> > 
> > Rejecting such bug reports (and even silently dropping them if the sender's
> > system is misconfigured (no valid email address)) is the only way to do it.
> > 
> > Look at the current situation in bugs.gnome.org; such bugs are currently
> > accepted by the system but nobody ever looks at them. They're just slowing
> > the whole system down and eating up resources.
> 
> I don't agree.  Some bug reports with invalid emails are useful some
> are not.  Part of the responsibility of being 'maintainer' is
> diligently handing incoming reports.  Going through vast majority
> of ancient fixed problems as they arrive is part of the job.

But what do you want to do with them ?

Having them go somewhere where nobody ever looks at them isn't good either
and we also can't find out whether an email address is good or not until
it bounces. Of course we can change the Errors-To: of the auto-reply from
/dev/null to some mailing list or something like this, but I doubt that anyone
will ever look at them.

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Martin Baulig
martin gnome org (private)
baulig suse de (work)