On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Stephan Kulow wrote:

Hi,

> On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:38, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > On Sunday 18 August 2002 13:05, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > >   the bug system isn't really maintained as it is.
> > > from my look at bugzilla, it seems to solve all this.
> >
> > This means you volunteer to maintain it?
> Well, I volunteer to set it up and do the migration. For problems that
> come up with bugzilla itself, I hope, the bugzilla developers will help m=
e :)
>
Well, I will volunteer to help where I can with problems with bugzilla. I t=
hink
it is a very good idea to switch to bugzilla. Bugprocessing is a very compl=
ex
thing and IMHO Bugzilla is quite feature rich and in production on many sit=
es.

The code of bugzilla is not in very nice perl, indeed. That means that puta=
tive
small changes to the bugzilla functionality turn out to be quite lot of (ug=
ly)
work. That was also true for changes to the gui, but a few weeks ago, Bugzi=
lla
2.16 was released which brought code cleanups and, and that is most importa=
nt,
the gui fully customizable using templates.

IMHO it is a good approach to strip the query page to have  a subset of the
offered search options. I never realised who should and _wants_ to use the
'boolean chart' stuff.

There are some things which must be decided before the migration to bugzill=
a
starts. Bugzilla is organised in Products, Products have components. Versio=
ns
are the attribute of the Product while components have people who have to c=
are
for them, the 'initial owner' which has to be defined. The initial owner ta=
kes
care of the bug if the poster of the bug does not provide an assignee.

Furthermore Bugzilla has a quite powerfull permission system. There are Gro=
ups
for products and more general bugs. For example, there could be a permissio=
n
Group 'can read and security bugs'. For Products, groups can also be define=
d,
like 'khtml product group' as long as kthml is a product. All defined group=
s can
be assigned to people, even automatically using regexps. That restricts the=
 bug
visibility.

The product, component and permission system must be decided before we star=
t
to migrate.

Regards,

Klaas

>

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