> > ...and if only bugzilla could be avoided for the submission process, and > replaced by a more comprehensive system, it would help a lot. Or maybe > just customize it enough to make it unrecognizable? ;-) > Is there any sort of system out there that's already written and comes even close to doing what is needed? The fact is that learning bugzilla was daunting for me as a new user, but given the alternatives I must say it works quite well. I do know that writing a complete custom app to handle the workflow would be a pretty significant project to do correctly. Theres no point in doing it half-ass, as bugzilla at least allows a lot of flexibility. I think a few automation tools connecting to bugzilla is probably the ticket to success. Fedora-startqa for instance queries bugzilla, and automatically finds the most recent SRPMS and MD5Sums and downloads them. It wouldn't be much harder to write an automated submitter, in fact I think it's already been done (ESR's tool?). I would say an automated submitter needs to be coupled with a pretty strong automated build checking and rpmlint type tool though, in order to prevent people from just running fedora-submit "my_lame_non_compliant.src.rpm" and making extra work for QA. Fedora-startqa has a lot of these automated checks in it, but is dependant on mach currently. --erik
