Re: [Gnu-arch-users] fd leak

[Tom Lord]

    > 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.

-t