On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:55:01PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Bugzilla is a prime example of a feature-rich yet easy to use BTS. Bugzilla is a prime example of a feature-rich yet fiendishly difficult to use BTS. Despite much time spent examining both the documentation and the code, I have never managed to construct a reliable and accurate query with it that returned what I wanted, and that's only the start. Everything about it is overcomplicated, and it consumes far too much developer time. The tool should serve the users, and not the other way around. > Bugzilla doesn't support all the functionality we need, but I suspect > it should be enough for the WNPP and sponsor systems. See above for why it would be wholly inappropriate. > I'd rather keep > using the BTS for this, though. People already know how to interact > with the BTS, the interface is simple and offline-friendly. Square peg, round hole. The BTS does not store the same sort of thing, and the requirements are different. It is not difficult to implement a system to handle WNPP from scratch; it is rather more difficult to modify the BTS to support all of the extra stuff, and not particularly useful for storing bugs. > Adam wanted to reimplement some stuff in the BTS. What happend with > that? AFAIK he simply hasn't got around to it yet. It's quite a huge job. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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