Re: dormant bugs and our perception

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:05:40 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org> wrote:

> Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>>> "RS" == Rahul Sundaram <sundaram 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.

That's not specific to bugzilla and generally will not change unless
Fedora does not use Red Hat IS.

Frankly, I don't see a problem.  It's an enhancement that Fedora can
control, while still reaping the benefits of using the Red Hat bugzilla
instance.

josh