Migrating to our own bugzilla instance.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 09/18/2013 05:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> EPEL is a valid subproject/SIG of Fedora, and any changes we propose
> need to take it into account, just like any other part of Fedora we are
> currently supporting.

Well can we then make them clean up their spec file changes and keep 
them in separated branch?

>
> To get back to the actual subject of this thread, the current status of
> running our own bugzilla is that we decided that we don't currently
> have resources or desire to do so, and wanted to try and work with
> existing bugzilla maintainers to try and address our concerns.
>
> If there's things that change, we can change our plan.
>
> So, constructive things to do moving forward:
>
> * Clearly enumerate the issues with the current bugzilla and we can ask
>    the bugzilla team to see if they can address them. If they do, then
>    things will be better for us all. If they don't, we will know what
>    items are causing problems and we need to specifically address in any
>    solution we run ourselves. The wiki page is a good place to add/note
>    those.
>
> * Convince us that something has changed that would make running our
>    own more attractive. For me at least, those would include: More
>    people committed to helping, people with lots of bugzilla, perl or db
>    knowledge committed to helping, some vastly better option than
>    bugzilla appears, bugzilla itself becomes easier/better for our needs
>    upstream, promise of more hardware to run our own on, serious
>    issues unaddressed by current bugzilla admins, etc etc.
>
> Just my 2 cents.

So the freedom for us to administrate and hack on our own instance is 
not good enough and you play the resource card?

JBG