dormant bugs and our perception

[John Poelstra]

Stephen John Smoogen said the following on 01/03/2008 12:47 PM Pacific Time:
> On Jan 3, 2008 8:35 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Uhm only if the changes don't break the accounting and other legal
> processes that might be in Bugzilla because of SOX legal requirements
> and such. You cant just hack around with bugzilla.redhat.com as it is
> part of the company that makes money to pay for the rest of the toys.
> 
> 

SOX and Bugzilla???  There are accounting and legal processes in bugzilla?

Please send a link to the SOX reg where this is outlined.

Maybe I should go back to being a CPA :)

John