David Boswell wrote:
I think not being able to query bugs across projects is a big limitation. I'm not sure how often this happens though.
I can't remember myself ever doing this. Usually all one is interested in is a particular project. I can imagine that server admins use global queries more often though...
Having hundreds of projects in bugzilla is a mess, but there are other ways to deal with this. We could talk with the bugzilla developers about interface improvements that would be able to handle this many projects.
Installations with hundreds of projects are not and simply can't be the major focus of the Bugzilla project. However, the interface changes required are rather significant. Note also that those interface changes shouldn't degrade the usability of Bugzilla installations with low project numbers which _are_ the major focus of the Bugzilla project. Given this it is hard for me to believe that I'll see any real improvement in the next few years.
We could also clear out the abandoned projects that are in bz. I had looked into removing abandoned projects at one point and opened a bug to track this. If people are interested in pursuing this, the bug is at http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2713
Even getting the number of projects down to 200 doesn't solve the problem. And given the increasing popularity of Firefox I wouldn't bet on low project numbers.
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