On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > GNATS (bugs.apache.org), in short, sucks (that's an understatement). > All I want is a usable web interface to manage our bugs. I have > spent way too much time over the last few weeks fighting this > horrible bug system and trying to clean up the entries. > > So, who among those who would go through the bugs would veto the use > of bugzilla? It may be crap, but I believe less so than GNATS. Pier > already has bugzilla setup on nagoya, so it should be fairly trivial > to add an httpd-2.0 project.
We went through this whole exercise before, but it was dropped for two main reasons: security nightmare and lack of effort giving to replicating gnats features that many people have become used to and really like, in the bugzilla environment. One major problem is that how it is (was?) setup, it is impossible to get automated email notifications of changes to all bugs, ie. like the apache-bugdb mailing list. I'm not saying the issues can't be addressed with bugzilla, but simply saying "ok, looks good, lets use it" without carefully considering how it is setup and used, and how to duplicate the necessary set of gnats functionality that bugzilla doesn't supply by default, is not going to work.
