Independent Fedora bug tracker

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:

> On 04/23/2009 12:26 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> >
> > > Actually, I think the Fedora Infrastructure team, from what I've
> > > witnessed, is
> > > more the capable of doing this.  Unless I'm totally clueless (which I may
> > > be),
> > > if Fedora Infrastructure undertook running an issue tracking system
> > > themselves, I do not think it would be the most complex system in the
> > > whole
> > > project.  I think they handle far more challenging tasks on a day-to-day
> > > basis.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Nothing personal but you're not in a position to make this judgement.
> > We've not even setup a test version populated with data about the size
> > that would be required for Fedora so no analysis of what we could or could
> > not do has been done.
> >
> > 	-Mike
> I know that.  I'm just a Fedora user.  This thread is exploratory, and I'm
> trying to get this kind of information out there.  I didn't mean to speak for
> the team at all, I just wanted to say I think greater problems have been
> tackled.
>
> Is Bugzilla so hard to manage, though?  Is the data really that enormous?
>

"I don't know" and "I don't know"  which is why I can't say "yes we can do
that" or "no we can't do that"

> Another example that comes to mind, though definitely not apples-to-apples,
> was the migration from MoinMoin to MediaWiki.  Yes, I realize Bugzilla does
> much more than a wiki does, but I witnessed a lot of the process of that
> migration, and yes, it's still ongoing, and there was stumbling along the way.
> But the community really came together on that and helped-out.  I also realize
> that currently, Bugzilla is much more of a core app to both Fedora & Red Hat
> than the Wiki is or likely ever will be.  But the concept of migrating a
> system is not new to Fedora.  The key is how can we leverage the community to
> help with it.
>

Lots of pre-work went into that to determine its feasibility.  With
bugzilla we're not even at the "could we" stage, we're still at the
"should we try" stage of which I only play a small part of.

	-Mike