Independent Fedora bug tracker

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On 04/23/2009 12:14 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Biggest Con is that infrastructure which already has limited resources would
> need to run it. AFAIK  we have no one with experience that could setup and run
> a bugzilla/ other bug tracking system.  this is largely the reason why we have
> not done it.
>
> The other reason its not been done is that we need a way to move bugs to Red
> Hat's bugzilla and move from Red Hat's bugzilla to whatever we run.  people
> misfile bugs.  they effect fedora and rhel and need cloning.  there is alot of
> extra bits needed that you seem to not have considered.
>
> Step 1 find people to do the work,
> Step 2 do an analysis of the needed workflows.
> Step 3 find hardware, bandwidth and all needed resources
> Step 4 setup system, and migration plans
>
> Just trying to point out its not as simple as you seem to think.
>
> Dennis
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.

I think the misfiling of bugs would be far *less* if we had separate 
issue trackers.  What are the odds a Fedora user is going to file 
something on Red Hat's Bugzilla, if they've never heard of it before (I 
can understand, during the transition, a lot of this happening).  
Likewise, who would file a bug for RHEL in Fedora's issue tracker, if 
they're completely separate websites?  Maybe I just didn't understand 
what you meant here.

I definitely didn't think it was simple.  Rather, I feel it is important 
and we should make a goal to achieve.

And everyone keeps talking about bandwidth for Bugzilla.  Am I missing 
something?  Are there huge binary files being transferred that I'm 
missing?  How many GB/day are we talking?

I believe allowing Fedora Infrastructure to run their own issue tracker 
will result in a leaner & meaning instance that will likely run better 
than Red Hat's, if only because it'll be fresher, but also because 
they'll have greater control to suit the community's needs.