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 to
anyone,
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?
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Regards,
Ahmad
