On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
On 04/23/2009 12:26 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
>
> > Actually, I think the Fedora Infrastructure team, from what I've
> > witnessed, is
> > more the capable of doing this. Unless I'm totally clueless (which I may
> > be),
> > if Fedora Infrastructure undertook running an issue tracking system
> > themselves, I do not think it would be the most complex system in the
> > whole
> > project. I think they handle far more challenging tasks on a day-to-day
> > basis.
> >
> >
>
> Nothing personal but you're not in a position to make this judgement.
> We've not even setup a test version populated with data about the size
> that would be required for Fedora so no analysis of what we could or could
> not do has been done.
>
> -Mike
I know that. I'm just a Fedora user. This thread is exploratory, and I'm
trying to get this kind of information out there. I didn't mean to speak for
the team at all, I just wanted to say I think greater problems have been
tackled.
Is Bugzilla so hard to manage, though? Is the data really that enormous?
"I don't know" and "I don't know" which is why I can't
say "yes we can do
that" or "no we can't do that"
Another example that comes to mind, though definitely not
apples-to-apples,
was the migration from MoinMoin to MediaWiki. Yes, I realize Bugzilla does
much more than a wiki does, but I witnessed a lot of the process of that
migration, and yes, it's still ongoing, and there was stumbling along the way.
But the community really came together on that and helped-out. I also realize
that currently, Bugzilla is much more of a core app to both Fedora & Red Hat
than the Wiki is or likely ever will be. But the concept of migrating a
system is not new to Fedora. The key is how can we leverage the community to
help with it.
Lots of pre-work went into that to determine its feasibility. With
bugzilla we're not even at the "could we" stage, we're still at the
"should we try" stage of which I only play a small part of.
-Mike