On Martes 10 Noviembre 2009 12:17:47 Myriam Schweingruber escribió: > Hi Matt, > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 05:07, Matt Rogers wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 November 2009 04:25:27 Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > > Matt, I am more expressing personal impressions I gather from my bug > triaging work and I fall short of proposing real solutions. I guess we'll have to wait for DrKonqi2 improvements done by Andrés. > All I can > state here is that Bugzilla is not exactly what I consider an easy to > use tool, it feels clumsy, the query usability is very nerdy but not > really good, since you end up with holding Ctrl buttons all the time > to select stuff, the number of legal keywords is too small and only > admins can change those, the discoverability of advance searches is > non-existent (I might not be a developer, but I use computers since > 30+ years and still struggle to find stuff in Bugzilla). And it is > slow, some periods of the day you really need patience, it slows down > the workflow, and we too often are faced with messages like 'too many > open accounts, try again later'. That's what I think is a scalability > problem and, with KDE growing bigger and bigger, this is a serious > issue. > > I use Bugzilla all day long, as you can see in the stats, and I dream > of being able to do queries more easily. Currently, triaging is a per > bug work which takes a tremendous amount of time that could be spent > more efficiently elsewhere. > Seriously, I more often use the search > function in my Google mail for keywords and find stuff faster in the > bug reports I am subscribed to than querying Bugzilla. I agree, me too. > Making personal > lists of key bugs for duplicates is still something I haven't found to > be easy. And even if one has a list, you have to keep that list open > to see the titles (where I put crash information to be able to find > those again), so I always end up with 10+ browser tabs. Maybe I am > doing it all wrong and there is an easier way to do that stuff, but I > still haven't found it... This also happens to me, I ended up (I'm a bit lazy lately) with 10+ browser tabs in konqueror, firefox and opera. KBugBuster is still not ready for the task (at least the version in trunk kdesdk). Linux developers still use Bugzilla ? We'll have to wait for Linus not being confortable with bugzilla and create a new and shiny problem manager. > > Regards, Myriam. > Regards. Jaime.