Hi,
i would like to add some more to the discussion started at http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2015-April/013163.html
1. On the plot attached to http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8447 one can see that since the CentOS 7 release the number of unresolved issues on bugs.centos.org has increased, and the number is currently more than 50 unresolved issues per month. Many issues do not obtain any attention (nothing in the notes). This continues for several months, and is an unprecedented situation.
For me it shows that the CentOS community has not enough resources to deal with the reported issues. From this point of view it would be better to have CentOS issues integrated into RHEL's bugzilla, but the decision should also take into account Red Hat's long time plans for CentOS, unknown to me.
2. A single example I would like to bring up is the fate of http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=8249 The reporter made a substantial effort to collect usability issues encountered during an installation of CentOS, got asked to report the issues at bugzilla what he did, and there this got (politely) closed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197377 This seems to be his only bug at bugzilla.redhat.com.
Maybe if CentOS was at bugzilla then CentOS developers could focus more on the "open-source" way of dealing with people's reports, which will counteract a bit Red Hat's enforcement of compliance with it's strategies.
3. One more point, and it has to do with the way Fedora/EPEL package updates are handled. When I update an RPM package fixing a bug for Fedora/EPEL the update almost never gets any reviews. The update is sitting for some fixed amount of time (2 weeks for EPEL) and after that I push it to stable (still without any review). I'll bring the famous case here what the result of such releases could potentially be: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054350 (actually I don't know if the offending release was reviewed or not). Or another case which affected me: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063493 Red Hat changed major version of software (mpich2 -> mpich3) which resulted in a couple months of empty running reviews (2 weeks each) at EPEL in order to fix all dependencies. I'm not familiar with the role CentOS could have in the process of preparation of new RHEL updates, but if there is anything that could be done to improve the RPM package update process, it should be considered as an important factor in case of merging CentOS issues to bugzilla.
Best regards,
Marcin