[plt-dev] Re: launchpad instead of gnats?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Dec 10, Sam TH wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > On Dec 10, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>> >> Questions to consider:
>> >> [...]
>> >
>> > And more:
>> >
>> > * Is it possible to submit a bug in other ways than the web
>> >  interface.  (An email interface will do.)
>>
>> Yes.  See here:
>> https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/EmailInterface
>
> I don't have time to read all of these in detail now, but this:
>
>  Launchpad only accepts email that is GPG signed.
>
> doesn't look good.

Why not?  It's not that hard to have a key that DrScheme uses to sign
generated bug reports.  Did you expect them to allow arbitrary people
to email them without any authentication?

They also have a (beta) web interface described here:
https://help.launchpad.net/API
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu