On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 17:00 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > The GNOME Bugzilla is still using 2.20. Current stable upstream is at > 3.2. The stable version has several benefits, but overall: > * no crappy table locking, while still allowing full text indexing > (table locking causes many performance problems) > * Upstream supported XMLRPC (not perfect, but various things can be > done, see WebService stuff at > http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.2/en/html/api/) > * Supported by upstream (security bugs) > * bla bla see > http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.2/new-features.html > http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.0/new-features.html > http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/2.22/new-features.html > > There is a proposal to upgrade the GNOME Bugzilla by: > * having an external party do it (not me) > * deliver the functionality in multiple stages (hard requirement) > --> Means that not all the current functionality will be available!
My take here is that this has to be treated a bit like someone came to a GNOME module maintainer and wanted to do a big code change. We would never say "if you do X, we'll promise to commit it" We'd say: - X sounds like a good idea - What help do you need from us to accomplish X? - Here are the basic requirements to get X committed - When you've done X, if it looks good, we'll commit it That's a risk that you just have to take as a contributor. In the end, a decision as to whether something is ready to go live has to be made as a judgment of the bugmaster team looking at where the port is at. To me as a developer, I'd say that the added features you've listed aren't very important ... I don't use most of them, I didn't even know many existed. I'd put more weight on a) preserving important look-and-feel customizations b) making sure that all the field customizations transfer smoothly and no data is lost. - Owen (As git-bz author ... xmlrpc - woo!) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list