Bugzilla and Bazaar-NG
I was talking to Luis Villa at LCA and had an idea of an interesting application for the kind of distributed version control enabled by bzr.
Essentially every Bugzilla installation is a fork of the project: people install it once, tend to customize it to fit their own use, and only intermittently install updates from the maintainers. In a previous job, I was assigned the task of removing all references to "bugs" from the installation, on the grounds that our product only had "issues", not "bugs". I understand Bugzilla is now getting to be more parameterized but there is still some customization and in any case the customization needs to be merged with the new upstream defaults.
If bugzilla was distributed with a small amount of bzr metadata it might be much easier for people to either integrate their changes into new releases, or to submit improvements for upstream integration.
I stepped in to do a talk on bzr when another speaker dropped out. It was received pretty well, and sparked a lot of interesting conversations.
posted Fri 22 Apr 2005 in /software/vc/bzr | link
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