On 22/05/2025 09:54, Marc Haber wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 09:53:10AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:What would help is a web ui built on top of debbugs, and made available toanyone, possibly by adding another link next to tracker.d.o bugs link.That noone has done this yet is a sign for me that we don't actually need it so urgently. I think the distribution has more pressing things to solve.
I think it means that no one wants to touch it.(Already looked at it last year out of curiosity - not worth investing time in)
It's unmaintained and archaic. Hasn't even kept up with email standards when it's an email interface. Do you not get DMARC reports after every bug interaction?
It requires more work than adopting an existing solution, but it wouldn'tchangethe current workflow, and we'd just get email notifications the same way.Adopting an existing solution would also mean converting the current BTS'es contents. That means hundreds of thousands of reports with millions of messages, without losing information that cost human time to put in.I recently closed a bug in adduser that was filed 22 years ago.How would we do that when we change to an "existing" solution, when our data is in another "existing" solution?
Do you expect the migration to throw away old data? The data would be migrated and you can close it in the new BTS.
Migrating bug data to bugzilla is pretty straightforward. The integrations and automations would be more involved, but they're both written in perl, so there is that at least. Not saying use bugzilla, but that there are options that are decades ahead of debbugs.
Do you really enjoy waiting 30 min for a bug to be created to get a bug number?
-- Regards, Ahmad