Independent Fedora bug tracker

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On 04/23/2009 04:18 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-04-22, 16:07 GMT, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>    
>> Those are some really good points.  In the "FOSS needs
>> a central bugtracker" thread, there's an idea of issue trackers
>> communicating with each other.  Theoretically, this would
>> alleviate some, if not all, of the work load of someone having
>> to check two issue trackers, because if one can be consider
>> upstream to the other, then the data can flow with the work
>> only needing to be done in one place.
>>      
>
> <rant>
> OK, either you are trolling or you are serious and you have some
> brainpower to stand behind your words.
>
> If the former, then read
> http://slashdot.org/features/98/10/13/1423253.shtml very
> carefully and then go and do something useful.
>
> If the latter, then I have a couple of bugs for you to solve:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452962 -- that should
> be easy, just make periodic XML-RPC requests and store it in the
> database.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189813 -- OK, this is
> biggie, and you will need to work closely with people around
> http://www.bugzilla.org . On the other hand, I heard they work on
> this, so any real help you can provide to them would be very
> welcome.
>
> And fixing either of these would actually help somebody (me
> included; yes, I would love to click on the button "Move
> upstream" in RH Bugzilla) to fix bugs better. Your suggestion
> (aside from making a lot of work for somebody else, not talking
> about huge costs in hardware and bandwidth -- and yes, they are
> huge, just believe me) doesn't seem to help to anybody.
>
> </rant>
>
> Matěj
>
>    
While I don't agree with your dichotomy, I have to be honest and say 
that, at the moment, I am no way ready to undertake a task like this 
myself right now.

Having said that, the fact that I am not able to do this myself does not 
automatically exclude me from making the suggestion and participating in 
the brainstorming that follows.  I definitely *use* Fedora/Red Hat's 
Bugzilla, so I am speaking from my own experiences with it, and my 
suggestion is to improve that experience.  I realize Fedora comes with 
no official support, so I hope no one thinks I'm expecting any, either.  ;)