Some Questions From The Bugzilla Project

[Zachary Goldberg]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:18 PM, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Max Kanat-Alexander
> <mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:
>>        Hey there Wine Bugzilla folks. I've been funded by the Mozilla
>> Foundation to do a survey of the major Bugzilla-using organizations in
>> the world, to find out what people like and don't like about Bugzilla,
>> what we could improve, what changes you'd like to see in Bugzilla,
>> etc., and you guys are one of the organizations picked for the
>> survey. :-)
>>
>>        The Bugzilla Project is going to use this information to
>> prioritize its work on future releases, and we may even be able to get
>> a grant from the Mozilla Foundation to work on some of the most popular
>> or pressing issues. In other words, what you say here will really
>> matter.
>>
>>        I was wondering--who's the best contact there who I could ask
>> a few questions to about how you guys use Bugzilla? It'd just be over
>> email, unless you want to do it over IRC or on the phone.
>>
>
> Can we do this in an open forum like wine-devel instead of having one
> point of contact?  I think we all have particular issues with bugzilla
> that we don't necessarily communicate to the project.  Having said
> that, I think it's great that the Bugzilla Project is getting feedback
> from the open source community, and I'm glad we're one of the projects
> you would like input from.
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>
>
>

When still working out how to do bugzilla stats (in the WWN, Wine's
newsletter.  Last article of every issue) I originally attempted to
get information from the report/graph/chart generating feature.   It
took a while but I finally figured out how to use it and got numbers
that I thought seemed reasonable.  However after a bit I noticed that
indeed, the numbers did not make sense.  To this day I cannot figure
out what the report was saying.  I think the entire report generator
needs a huge interface overhall.

That said, I'm with james in that its great that you guys are putting
forth this effort!

--Zach