Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fd leak

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:00:43PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> 
>     > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> 
>     > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:50:24PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>     > > During the brief death of savannah, someone had brought up a bugzilla
>     > > system.  Would it be desirable to use that instead?  This thing seems 
> a
>     > > little lacking.
> 
>     > I agree the savannah bug system sucks, but there's a pretty big 
> advantage to
>     > using a system that's maintained in central, reliable (well, on `GNU 
> time' as
>     > Tom puts it, but you can generally assume that the FSF isn't going to 
> go away
>     > tomorrow) place that's pretty easy for people to find.
> 
>     > Morever, while bugzilla seems a bit better than the savannah bug 
> tracker, it
>     > has the same fundamentall problem: it's extremely web centric, which 
> makes it
>     > a address@hidden pain to deal with for many common uses.  If arch (or 
> savannah;
>     > ideally, all of savannah could move to something better) was to go to 
> the
>     > trouble of adopting another bug tracker, it would be very nice if it was
>     > something that had a sane email interface, as submitting/dealing with 
> bug via
>     > email is generally much, much, much easier. 
> 
> 
> Jeeze, yes.   I don't know about lucratively -- but
> ...uh.... spiritually at least, a little email-driven database
> suitable for mapping issue onto would be a _hugely_ killer app.   It
> keeps coming to the top of my agenda but then getting blown back but
> "nah, let's start Pika instead" and the like.

Obligatory mention: debbugs does pretty much everything you
want. Unfortunately, it's debbugs. Bloody thing.

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