Fedora Bugzilla Instance (was dormant bugs and our perception)

[John Poelstra]

Rahul Sundaram said the following on 01/03/2008 07:35 AM Pacific Time:
 > Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
 >>>>>>> "RS" == Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:
 >>
 >> RS> The fact that bugz.fp.o is separate instead of being part of
 >> RS> bugzilla to me, indicates that we have a problem.
 >>
 >> I'm having trouble understanding how a quick interface to a few set
 >> queries is a problem.  Surely it's a good thing that bugzilla lets us
 >> do this.
 >
 > Enhancements like this should be part of bugzilla and not a separate
 > interface. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/rpm can be modified to do this.
 > The reason why we don't it is because pretty much nobody in Fedora has
 > access to that bugzilla instance to make improvements that benefit 
Fedora.
 >
 > Rahul

First someone needs to come up with a *compelling* business case for 
*why* a separate bugzilla instance would truly make things better for 
Fedora.  This is way more complicated than creating a new bugzilla 
instance so it can be customized by the community.  While that might be 
one "benefit" I don't think it outweighs all the factors that would go 
into performing the migration and then maintaining it--I think people 
underestimate how time consuming that would be.

And, if you skipped the data migration, would it really be more 
efficient to work in two bugzilla instances for a year or more until all 
of the supported releases were EOL?

Not that this couldn't be done in the future, but I don't think it makes 
sense any time soon.

If creating addons is an area of interest why couldn't they be proposed 
as a patch to Red Hat's bugzilla?  Internally a project team has been 
collecting requirements for the next update of bugzilla to be based on 
bugzilla 3.0.  When I asked Will Woods if there were any special 
requirements needed by Fedora he said there were not.

If there are special changes needed for Fedora someone should start a 
discussion on fedora-devel or get a wiki page going to collect the 
requirements.

John