Mailing List Archive: Bugzilla?

Bugzilla?

Mar 5, 2002, 11:08 PM

Post #1 of 5 (1126 views)

Jimbo:
Would you consider installing bugzilla (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/) on wikipedia to help us manage bugs/feature requests? The Wiki
interface is pretty wretched for bug management.

I'd certainly be happiest if everything was integrated (so that you
wouldn't have to separately log into bugzilla...hm, maybe that could
be done...that would be neat, if when you first create an account at
Wikipedia, you could choose to join the wikipedia-l and/or wikitech-l
lists...) but that certainly doesn't need to be a high priority.

The installation looks pretty simple, especially since you already
have perl and mysql all running. It would be of great help. If you
do so, I promise to file the bugs on the current bug reports page.

-tc

Re: Bugzilla? [ In reply to ]

jwales at bomis

Mar 6, 2002, 9:11 AM

Post #2 of 5 (1109 views)

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Sure, I'd consider it. But let's get a consensus of developers that we all actually
want to use this. It sure seems like a reasonable idea to me.

kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:

> Jimbo:
> Would you consider installing bugzilla (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/) on wikipedia to help us manage bugs/feature requests? The Wiki
> interface is pretty wretched for bug management.
>
> I'd certainly be happiest if everything was integrated (so that you
> wouldn't have to separately log into bugzilla...hm, maybe that could
> be done...that would be neat, if when you first create an account at
> Wikipedia, you could choose to join the wikipedia-l and/or wikitech-l
> lists...) but that certainly doesn't need to be a high priority.
>
> The installation looks pretty simple, especially since you already
> have perl and mysql all running. It would be of great help. If you
> do so, I promise to file the bugs on the current bug reports page.
>
> -tc
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l@ross.bomis.com
> http://ross.bomis.com/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

RE: Bugzilla? [ In reply to ]

mchristensen at HTEC

Mar 6, 2002, 10:00 AM

Post #3 of 5 (1111 views)

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One issue to consider how easy it will be for end users to report a bug.

Bugzilla is far better than the wiki interface for tracking bugs, but
wikipedians will already know how to use the wiki, and form that perspective
Bugzilla will be more complex to use.

Clearly bugzilla is not --that-- complex, so this is not a serious problem,
but I think it is still worth mentioning.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Wales [mailto:jwales@bomis.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: wikitech-l@nupedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Bugzilla?
>
>
> Sure, I'd consider it. But let's get a consensus of
> developers that we all actually
> want to use this. It sure seems like a reasonable idea to me.

Re: Bugzilla? [ In reply to ]

axel at uni-paderborn

Mar 6, 2002, 4:11 PM

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I don't know Bugzilla, so I have no opinion about adopting it, but I
just wanted to point out that our sourceforge account
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia
appears to come with a fairly sophisticated bug tracking system; maybe we
should start importing bugs from the wiki page. (I also think
that we shouldn't force Wikipedians to use a different interface to
report bugs, quickly editing a Bug_Reports page seems to be the most
natural for them).

Axel

Re: Re: Bugzilla? [ In reply to ]

hidders at uia

Mar 7, 2002, 10:46 AM

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From: "Axel Boldt" <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
>
> I don't know Bugzilla, so I have no opinion about adopting it, but I
> just wanted to point out that our sourceforge account
> at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia
> appears to come with a fairly sophisticated bug tracking system; maybe we
> should start importing bugs from the wiki page. (I also think
> that we shouldn't force Wikipedians to use a different interface to
> report bugs, quickly editing a Bug_Reports page seems to be the most
> natural for them).

I agree with Axel (but also do not know Bugzilla). The problem is more that
somebody should be responsible for doing the bug-bookkeeping.

-- Jan Hidders