Re: dormant bugs and our perception

[John Poelstra <poelstra redhat com>]

Stephen John Smoogen said the following on 01/03/2008 12:47 PM Pacific Time:
> On Jan 3, 2008 8:35 AM, 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.
>
> Uhm only if the changes don't break the accounting and other legal
> processes that might be in Bugzilla because of SOX legal requirements
> and such. You cant just hack around with bugzilla.redhat.com as it is
> part of the company that makes money to pay for the rest of the toys.

SOX and Bugzilla???  There are accounting and legal processes in bugzilla?

Please send a link to the SOX reg where this is outlined.

Maybe I should go back to being a CPA :)

John