On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Ed Grimm wrote: > Certainly. Here's how you do it: > > Sign up an email account to Gentoo's bugzilla. Select prefs, select > email settings. Add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the watch list. Now, down > below, uncheck every box in Field/recipient options EXCEPT Assignee > options 'I'm added to or removed from this capacity', 'The bug is > resolved or verified', and 'The bug is in the unconfirmed state'. > > If you want to turn this into a list which other people can join, have > the email address you sign up be such a mailing list. > > If people are interested, I may be doing this sometime during the next > few weeks for myself, and I should be able to set up a list. That being > said, I do occasionally have connectivity issues, and I do anticipate > being down for three weeks in June. As such, there's probably better > candidates to achieve this.
I'm also intermittently connected and I don't know where I could set up an email-list (for that you would need access to a server?). Anyway, thanks for the info/tutorial. > Actually, for a certain class of bugs, there has been automated > bug-hunting. This class is 'garbage in handling'. IIRC, there was a > group that did a certain amount of this a few years ago. Well, I have been toying with the idea for a while. Would it be impossible to create a tool that would go through some source file and look for security-bugs & trojans, much like a anti-virus program does with binaries? I realise that it would probably be quite complex to cover all possible "scenarios" but surely there has to be some common "signature" (sorry if this doesn't make sense, english is not my native lingo) and of course it cannot be one tool but has to be several tools for each type of code (i.e. C - linux-kernel, C++ - KDE, perl - ?, etc.) or at least a tool with different types of backends like gcc. > Of course, bug-fixing would be potentially even better. :) Oh yeah... Best regards Peter K -- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- [email protected] mailing list
