Cleaning up Bugzilla

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri May 29 21:52:46 CEST 2009


Stephan Arts wrote:
> 
> I'd like to propose restructuring the bugtracker used for xfce.
[...]
> As a possible solution I would like to propose to configure every git
> repository as a bugzilla project.

Yes, I've been planning on this for a while, but haven't gotten to it.

What we really want to do is make a product per module, and set up 
bugzilla's classifications system to group each product into 
apps/xfce/panel plugins/etc., similar to the git repo layout.

The annoying part of this is every time you move a bug, you get bug 
email, so we'd probably want to disable email for the time it takes to 
do that.

It's just annoying because it's a lot of manual work and will probably 
take a while to get right.

A downside is that version numbers and milestones are per-product.  Need 
to check, but I don't think you can do that at a higher level 
(classifications).  With the new release process, that isn't such a big 
deal, since all modules (even in core xfce) can have different release 
schedules, but it's still annoying (say for xfce-x.y.0) to have to 
update 10 different products to add a version number.

Otherwise, this seems like the right way to go.

	-b



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