Ken, if you want to retire BFAV then that is of course your right. It is certainly a pain to have two not-very-well integrated systems in use for users and maintainers.
HOwever, I think you could do us all a very big favour by trying to make a new BFAV tool that talks to the Mantis DB. Personally I find that stupid, cumbersome, irritating web UI to be stupid, cumbersome and irritating. Even if it is only possible to make the original reporting of a bug as easy _from within Squeak_ as BFAV made it then life would be much nicer.
Just my 10c worth ( hey, I'm important so I get more than 2c ;-) )
tim -- Tim Rowledge, tim@sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Don't document the program; program the document.