> Am 26.11.10 21:04, schrieb Florian La Roche: >> AFAIK one of the reasons for mantis was also not to duplicate >> the reports within bugzilla.redhat.com and make sure all >> reports that also match for the Red Hat Enterprise Release >> get tracked "upstream". > > Well, that is the reason to have our own bug tracker, but that is not > the reason to have two different technical platforms for that. > > As said: Mantis is a much more harmless beast to handle, at least at the > time I last looked at bugzilla (somewhere in the middle of the bugzilla > 2 cycle). > > If that has changed and if the opinion of most people here is that it > would be better to switch to bugzilla: Sure, if somebody (or more than > one person) wants to help with it. > Speaking as the only System Engineer/Build Engineer/SCM maintainer/Bugzilla maintainer at my work, I can say that bugzilla is definitely not a full-time job. If you give me access to a c.o machine I could probably set one up in an afternoon. > We could phase out mantis, but beware: We don't just need a place to > file CentOS 6 bugs against, we'd also need to track CentOS 4 and 5 bugs > in there. And we'd need a few people to look at all still open bugs in > b.c.o and decide if those should be taken over to a new bug reporting > facility or not. > > And I am not sure if we - at the moment - have the time to do that > before 6 comes out. It's not a good idea, period. This is something that centos should do according to our own schedule. Setting up a separate bugzilla instance just to receive abrt submissions is a way of taking back control over the timing of this important decision. > > Helpful hands are always welcome. > > Ralph > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >