I think this is an excellent idea. I wrote an automated trouble
ticketing system years ago for the mainframe and it's an excellent way
to get quality information into the system. The one drawback was that
we ended up having a lot more bugs entered into the system. Once you
have the shell it wouldn't be hard to hook it into batch processes and
have emerge automatically send bug reports when it fails. When this
happens you end up with multiple, identical bug reports because users
tend to re-create the error a few times before they head to the forums
or bugzilla for help. On the plus side it would be much easier to find
duplicate bugs since the titles would be uniform.
Glide
If people are automating I'd prefer they not post bugs directly on
bugzilla. When we do tinderboxing and whatnot we generally generate a
standalone set of data to act on, as a human eye and processing can spot
invalid problems as well as duplicates.
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