Comments on: Why did it take Bugzilla 9 years to get from version 2.0 to 3.0? http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/9-years-from-bugzilla-2-to-3/ Random Ramblings of a Sysadmin Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Words — Jonathan Cheyer » Blog Archive » Managing Bugzilla Spam http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/9-years-from-bugzilla-2-to-3/comment-page-1/#comment-7377 Words — Jonathan Cheyer » Blog Archive » Managing Bugzilla Spam Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:02:52 +0000 http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/why-did-it-take-bugzilla-9-years-to-get-from-version-20-to-30/#comment-7377 [...] practically no support for handling spam in the 2007 world. (Version 3.0 just came out in May 2007, nine years after version 2.0 came out.) ¶ At Solid, we’ve been using Bugzilla to track bugs for our [...] [...] practically no support for handling spam in the 2007 world. (Version 3.0 just came out in May 2007, nine years after version 2.0 came out.) ¶ At Solid, we’ve been using Bugzilla to track bugs for our [...]

]]> By: justdave http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/9-years-from-bugzilla-2-to-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2902 justdave Tue, 15 May 2007 16:26:11 +0000 http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/why-did-it-take-bugzilla-9-years-to-get-from-version-20-to-30/#comment-2902 The current Bugzilla 3 is the Bugzilla 2 codebase (well, evolved from it) with features added to it. That was the point. The section you quoted was referring to the original attempt at Bugzilla 3 six years ago. The current Bugzilla 3 is the Bugzilla 2 codebase (well, evolved from it) with features added to it. That was the point. The section you quoted was referring to the original attempt at Bugzilla 3 six years ago.

]]> By: meren http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/9-years-from-bugzilla-2-to-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2894 meren Tue, 15 May 2007 11:30:45 +0000 http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/05/10/why-did-it-take-bugzilla-9-years-to-get-from-version-20-to-30/#comment-2894 "(...) and it’s much easier to make changes to existing code than it is to write something completely new from scratch. This little adventure to obtain Bugzilla 3.0 is a good example of that." What? Come on, at the end it's just a _bug_tracking_system_. Why did it take 9 years to switch to 3 if it was so easy to add new features to 2 instead of writing it from scratch? Okey, developers did a great job, thanks to all of them, sincerely. But please, Bugzilla, as an example, is only good at showing how bad desing can create a big pain in developers' and users' ars. 9 years. Even without a basic XMLRPC support.. “(…) and it’s much easier to make changes to existing code than it is to write something completely new from scratch. This little adventure to obtain Bugzilla 3.0 is a good example of that.”

What?

Come on, at the end it’s just a _bug_tracking_system_. Why did it take 9 years to switch to 3 if it was so easy to add new features to 2 instead of writing it from scratch?

Okey, developers did a great job, thanks to all of them, sincerely. But please, Bugzilla, as an example, is only good at showing how bad desing can create a big pain in developers’ and users’ ars. 9 years. Even without a basic XMLRPC support..

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