I'm opposed to anything that impacts the performance of mozdev.org. Of course, I'm not using bugzilla, so maybe I don't have an opinion...
Adam On 15/12/05, Wladimir Palant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Chee wrote: > > If I want to file a bug for one project I go to that project's bugs.html > > page and click on the "Enter a new bug link". How difficult is that? > > > >> Searching is no better. > > > > <http://flashblock.mozdev.org/bugs.html> > > Problem is that you usually don't go back to the project's homepage all > the time. You look through the existing bugs, then you adjust the search > maybe, then you file a bug. And there are links "New" and "Search" in > Bugzilla but using them is hard. > > > This may be my oracle background showing up, but using views and some clever > > SQL is a much better approach that what you are suggesting. Of course > > somebody may just tell me that MySQL doesn't have views. > > Ok, I tell you this: MySQL doesn't have views :) > Well, there are views as of MySQL 5.0 but I don't this this version is > installed on MozDev. And even if there were views, they wouldn't help much. > > Your points would be very valid if we were to develop a new system here. > But we don't, we have Bugzilla already. To implement even the simplest > of your suggestions you would have to change lots of code. And you would > have to do it all over again every time you install an upgrade. Your > patches from the previous Bugzilla version will most probably not apply > and even if they do they probably miss a few new places that need > changing. That's simply not doable, that's why I suggest a solution that > doesn't require any changes in Bugzilla source code. > > Btw. using symlinks to access the same table from different databases is > an official and supported feature of MySQL 4.0. MySQL is aware of the > fact that is has the same table under different names and treats it > accordingly > (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/symbolic-links-to-tables.html). > > Wladimir > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
