Repost: bug report: the other side

[John Summerfield]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:09:36 -0700 (PDT), Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote:
> 
>>> To file bugs, I use the XMLRPC Python interface to bugzilla. Once I
>>>  have a direct link to a ticket, I can open it with a browser if I need to, but
>>> that could be much faster, too.
>>>
>> Guess it is the XMLRPC part that I have missed out.  Used all day working
>> on bugs reports, and answered questions ,  so  I  would  just  read  some
>> of my bug reports.
> 
> That means I use a tiny Python script (less than two dozen lines which
> mainly initialise parameters) in which I paste my bug report and then call
> the bugzilla server's createBug() method via its remote procedure call
> interface. This is not suitable for Joe User. I only mentioned it to
> emphasise that nowadays I find the normal web interface of bugzilla too
> inconvenient. The fact alone that bug reporters need to choose from over
> 5000 "Components" is madness. As the package namespace will get even more
> crowded, more bugs will be misfiled.
> 
or not reported. I really do not like bugzilla. I don't think I've ever 
actually found one of my problems reported. It's so slow and clumsy to 
be almost unusable for dialup users as I was until recently.