Status of Bugzilla?

[Daniel Berlin]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> 
> >>gccbug email isn't actually as important as you'd think.
> >>It only accounts for 20% of bug reports.
> >>By percentage, in fact, it's been going down steadily.
> >>
> >
> >Then too many people are failing to read or follow the documentation about
> >bug reporting (unless the use of pre-3.0 versions without gccbug is going
> >*up*, which would be very odd).
> >
> 
> I think most people are much more comfortable with entering bug reports 
> via a web interface than with something like gccbug (not that I doubt 
> gccbug is useful for some).
> 
> Anyway, my vote is for the "Oh man, please" category. I would love to 
> see bugzilla up and running as soon as possible. I'm a sporadic user of 
> GNATS but I could see myself making far better use of the database with 
> bugzilla.
> 
> If it is going to be run in parallel to GNATS for a trial period, it 
> might be best to not import the old database into the new system while 
> the old one is still "live". I can see headaches occuring if we end up 
> having updates to the same bugs in two systems.

I've had the system running parallel for a while, though i haven't pushed 
an update out in a few days, i'm working on it.

> 
> regards
> 
> Bryce.
> 
>