Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread Alan Cox
Both. Bugzilla is enormously end-user-hostile, and difficult to manage. It is also primarily written in Perl, making heavy use of arrays in memory, which makes it somewhat of a pig. The user hostility is really down to the UI, some of the bugzillas have very nice front ends. On a PC it runs

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread Phil Smith III
David Boyes wrote: Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? We tried it and abandoned it in favor of RT. Note that RT and Bugzilla are different tools, aimed at different targets; both have their strengths. I, too, find RT preferable for the problems I tend to need it for, but RT is a

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread David Boyes
Both. Bugzilla is enormously end-user-hostile, and difficult to manage. It is also primarily written in Perl, making heavy use of arrays in memory, which makes it somewhat of a pig. The user hostility is really down to the UI, some of the bugzillas have very nice front ends. Someone

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread David Boyes
But when I was messing with trackers on Intel a few years ago, I chose Roundup over both Bugzilla and RT. It was clean, easier to understand, easier to use, and easier to customize. We used it for both development problem tracking and customer problems. The source for Roundup is available

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: But when I was messing with trackers on Intel a few years ago, I chose Roundup over both Bugzilla and RT. It was clean, easier to understand, easier to use, and easier to customize. We used it for both development problem tracking and customer problems. The source for

Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread Lee Stewart
Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? Thanks, Lee -- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Computer Solutions Phone: (303) 798-2954 Fax: (720) 228-2321 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.siriuscom.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread Mark Post
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 3:30 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lee Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? I haven't personally, but it's just a big Perl CGI application, with a few other things thrown in such as bash, or Ruby, or Python. Should run just

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread David Boyes
Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? We tried it and abandoned it in favor of RT. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? We tried it and abandoned it in favor of RT. That deserves some enlargement. Did you just not like it (I could understand that from a user's perspective). Did it perform badly on the Zed? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread David Boyes
We tried it and abandoned it in favor of RT. That deserves some enlargement. Fair enough. Did you just not like it (I could understand that from a user's perspective). Did it perform badly on the Zed? Both. Bugzilla is enormously end-user-hostile, and difficult to manage. It is also

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-17 Thread Mark Post
-snip- Hi... Is anyone running Bugzilla on Z? I just installed it on my SLES10 test system. A few notes... - A number of Perl modules are required that aren't part of SLES10. Those additional modules won't be supported by whomever you have your contract with. - It requires MySQL, or