The GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project
Elena Zannoni
ezannoni@gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 18:40:45 GMT 2022
On 9/29/22 11:13 AM, Joseph Myers via Overseers wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Jonathan Corbet via Overseers wrote:
>
>> Just for the record, it is still my feeling that the LF's infrastructure
>> management has been a good thing for the kernel community. Whether it
>> would be suitable for the toolchain community is not something I'm in a
>> position to have an opinion on. If anybody is curious about how
>> interactions with that group work, there is a current discussion on
>> bugzilla that might be interesting:
>>
>> https://lwn.net/ml/ksummit-discuss/05d149a0-e3de-8b09-ecc0-3ea73e080be3@leemhuis.info/
>
> Regarding Bugzilla, also see the GTI TAC meeting (24 Aug 2022) recording
> at 23:37 to 25:44. It's not clear what good solutions are right now for
> free software issue tracking, taking into account considerations such as:
>
> * easy for anyone to submit and comment on bugs;
>
> * protection against spam bug and comment submission (which is in tension
> with easy bug submission; we have restricted account creation, with people
> needing to email overseers to create an account on sourceware Bugzilla at
> all, or to email gcc-bugzilla-account-request to create an account on GCC
> Bugzilla from a large number of common email domains in which spammers can
> easily create accounts);
>
> * configurability of the fields and values of those fields and other logic
> used in the bug tracker;
>
> * ability to get a local copy of the tracker data (this is an area where
> Bugzilla is weak; you can probably do something with the REST API, but
> it's not designed to make it easy for someone to keep a local copy of all
> the data up to date the way git is);
>
> * being an actively maintained project (that also being a concern for
> Bugzilla).
>
BTW, I am just noticing an announcement to revive Bugzilla that came out
in the last month or so:
https://lists.bugzilla.org/pipermail/developers/2022-August/010231.html
elena
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