On 04.03.2012, 6:21 Rob wrote: > Hi John,
> I'm happy that you're looking at this, because I can't say that I'm > thrilled with Bugzilla, and I'd be happy to see a better alternative > to it. However, I also kinda agree with Chad: it's not that I love > Bugzilla, but rather we haven't yet found a system that's better > enough to invest in a migration. That's been the state of things for > so long that it's very easy to get cynical about it. That said, I'm > keeping an open mind, and I'm intrigued by one of your suggestions > (Bug Genie). More on that in a bit. Yes, (un)?fortunately, current status quo looks extremely hard to change. However, there's one big reason for a change: although Bugzilla is tolerable for us developers, it's EXTREMELY unfriendly to non-technical mortal humans who are supposed to submit bugs for us to work on. > One requirement I would like to place on a new system, should we go > there, is that it support Wikimedia SUL in some form. I realize that > Bugzilla doesn't support this, but the point behind this requirement > would be that if we're going to go through a painful migration, > integration with our existing login system needs to be one of the > benefits. It might mean that this project come behind some form of > OpenID provider support on the Wikimedia cluster. Actually, OpenID is closer than one might anticipate, as it's on my RfP. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
