gnatsweb feature requests

gnatsweb feature requests

[Joseph S. Myers]

It would be useful for the GCC GNATS database for gnatsweb to have some
features that can be used to discourage large attachments to PRs and to
reduce the size of attachments.  (Sometimes people submit multimegabyte
attachments which then go to the gcc-prs mailing list - but could be much
smaller through using compression, or through sending only the necessary
information.)

The sort of features that would be useful are (appropriately
configurable): If someone tries to submit a large tarball, ask them "are
you sure" before accepting the PR. If someone submits a large file which
bzip2 or gzip reduces in size substantially, silently compress it with
bzip2 or gzip (adjusting the name accordingly) before attaching it to the
new PR.

Since some PRs in the GCC GNATS database seem to have empty attachments,
it might also be useful if gnatsweb would refuse to allow users to attach
empty files, and warn them that an empty file rather than the intended
attachment was supplied.

It would also be useful for the readers of gcc-bugs and gcc-prs if
gnatsweb could arrange for the messages sent when people submit new PRs
via gnatsweb to appear properly MIME-formatted with gnatsweb attachments
as MIME attachments, so no special decoding steps are needed to see the
attached files.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk