Is bugzilla worth keeping?

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:56:45PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:45:18 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > It would deprive us of long-term memory.  For instance, I filed the bug
> > report http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404 in January 2003
> > with a nice test case (but one that's hard to translate into a unit
> > test).  Without Bugzilla, we'd have a harder time remembering problems
> > like that.  (Unless cxtest really takes off, I suppose...)
> 
> Well, Wine has lots of problems (relative to the task at hand) - is it
> *worth* keeping track of problems for this long? If it's been >12 months
> and nobody fixed it, it probably won't get fixed until somebody with
> sufficient debugging skills rediscovers it in their own app.
...and finds that the app given in that bug report (which could be downloaded
since the submitter included a URL) is much smaller than the app he has
observed the bug with, so he manages to fix the bug with this app
much more easily than with his own app.

Let's face it, arguing to abolish Bugzilla stands on a very weak position
from the beginning. Having any memory at all (even if it's badly
managed) is still better than not having it, unless we're wasting
a sizeable amount of development resources on an ill-maintained Bugzilla,
which I don't believe we do.

Or am I missing something?

Andreas Mohr