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Re: BHS: Bug help system



On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:50:15PM +0000, Mark Howard wrote:
> The system would work in a similar way to the bts:
> When maintainers find a bug report which they don't know how to deal
> with / don't have time to deal with / think somebody else could do much
> better *and* they think somebody else might (such as bug #182330 -
> creating a pts icon for galeon bookmark), they would write a control
> email telling the bug help system which bug they want somebody else to
> look at, possibly with their own short description of the problem. This
> request would be sent to one of a number of groups, e.g. graphics, man
> pages, gconf, powerpc, bugzilla_search_masters, c++, make, gtk,
> usability...

This sounds exactly like what bugzilla does, in concept. Bugzilla has 
wonderful support for people writing patches in, obsoleting them, etc...
It would not be hard to customize it for Debian use.

Regards
Josh
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