[RFC] Using bugspray for updating glibc bugs in bugzilla?

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 9/28/26 8:01 PM, Andrea Pinski wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Situation:
>>
>> We currently run AdaCore git hooks to send updates to bugzilla when a commit
>> is pushed that references the bugzilla bug.
> 
> Why aren't git-mailbomb and bugspray the same code base?  Why have 2
> different things handling almost exactly the same thing, except the
> output?
Are you asking out of curiosity?

Or do you feel the answer to the question is relevant to a decision to use
bugspray instead of the AdaCore Hooks?

Having two distinct tools has the benefit that one can be updated and
deployed without affecting the other.

While you write "handling almost exactly the same thing" the git-mailbomb
is much simpler because it is a one-way script that takes commits and
emails them to a list.

The bugspray code has to handle all of the interaction with bugzilla.

While you could put these things together conceptually as a form of
transforming a git commit to something else e.g. email, bug update, it
is probably easier to just split out the two use cases as is done here.

To put it another way, I agree with two distinct tools that each does
one distinct thing, either vcs to email, or a vcs to bugzilla bridge.

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Cheers,
Carlos.