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From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
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Tony Poppleton <tony.poppleton@gmail.com> writes:

> I wrote to this list a while ago requesting bugzilla permissions.  Ian
> Lance Taylor kindly suggested I get a gnu account, which sounded like
> a great plan.  However from discussions on the IRC chat, it seems that
> you need to get a sponsor, and a sponsor generally requires that you
> have proven yourself first by submitting some good patches to the
> project.
>
> Given that my main contribution was going to be bug triage in
> bugzilla, rather than patches, I am in a kind of catch 22 on getting a
> gnu account.  I also don't need the SVN write access.
>
> Richard Guenther suggested an easier route would just be to get the
> required bugzilla permissions, and that I should contact the bugzilla
> maintainer to do so.
>
> How do I go about contacting the bugzilla maintainer?

Sorry for the confusion which I accidentally instigated.  As I said in a
note I just sent to gcc@gcc.gnu.org, you should get a gcc maintainer to
sponsor you for bugzilla changes.

Thanks for your interest in gcc.

Ian