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Date:      Sat, 18 Feb 1995 07:01:11 -0600
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: query-pr. please! 
Message-ID:  <199502181301.HAA17273@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Feb 95 01:23:09 PST." <199502180923.BAA10380@freefall.cdrom.com> 

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> Naturally, security related bug reports might be screened (we could switch
> off a keyword) to all but those in a certain permission group, but we can
> add filters like that when and if they become necessary.

It's already in there (>Confidential:), and the email interface already
filters them out.

> 1. It doesn't lend itself well to being both a problem reporting mechanism
>    and a feature submission mechanism.  send-pr should be completely 
decoupled
>    from the concept of "problem" and become instead a general
>    bug/enhancement/feature request submission mechanism.

There's already some support in Class for that.

> 2. It doesn't accept file attachments, making it useless for submitting
>    new work (or information helpful to a bug report) in a structured way.

You're supposed to put them in one of the unstructured text fields.

> 3. It's unnecessarily cryptic, and provides the novice bug-reporter little
>    or no help along the way.

TkGNATS!
 
> 4. It provides no easy windows into what's in the database, both locally
>    and remotely.

TkGNATS!

> [fade to dream sequence]

... TkGNATS! ...

> P.S. Even though the tone of this is joking, I'm dead serious about the
> need for all the features described herein.  If this isn't send-pr/query-pr,
> then we need to write our own system or modify the GNATS tools appropriately!

TEE KAY GEE ENN AYE TEE ESS



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