Bugzilla

Hi,

is there any date planned for switching to bugzilla? I think
this would be
very helpful as bugzilla is just much more comfortable than
the current bug
tracker. 

I don't know if it is possible to migrate from gnatsweb to
bugzilla, but I
guess a simple solution would be to mark the gnatsweb as
'old' and setup a
new, fresh bugzilla. Maybe it is possible to send out a
message to all users
who raised a bug and ask them to add their bug to bugzilla
if the bug still
exists. Bugs being addressed for the next release could also
be moved to
bugzilla.

I think it would be an improvement to the GDB project.

Sascha

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:59:47AM +0100, Sascha Radike
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any date planned for switching to bugzilla? I
think this would be
> very helpful as bugzilla is just much more comfortable
than the current bug
> tracker. 
> 
> I don't know if it is possible to migrate from gnatsweb
to bugzilla, but I
> guess a simple solution would be to mark the gnatsweb
as 'old' and setup a
> new, fresh bugzilla. Maybe it is possible to send out a
message to all users
> who raised a bug and ask them to add their bug to
bugzilla if the bug still
> exists. Bugs being addressed for the next release could
also be moved to
> bugzilla.
> 
> I think it would be an improvement to the GDB project.

We meant to do it ages ago.  I was actually thinking about
it again
last night...

We can automatically migrate bugs to bugzilla.  My
understanding is
that the only reasonable way to do it is to add ourselves to
the
sourceware.org bugzilla instance, which will renumber all
the PRs.
But we should be able to keep the old gnats around for read
access
somehow.

Do other people think the time has come to switch over?  If
so I can
make time to get it done, but otherwise I have plenty of
other
projects 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

>If so I can make time to get it done, but otherwise I
have plenty of other
projects 

I don't know much time it takes to setup bugzilla. But I
think a running
bugzilla might reduce time spent for unnecessary work like
identifying bugs
already fixed ;) or searching the mailing lists.

It might also be helpful if all discussions about
enhancements and propasals
would be moved to bugzilla - just like it is handled by the
eclipse
community.

I'd prefer bugzilla being the central platform for bugs,
enhancements and
fixes rather than searching through mailing lists,
changelog, gnatsweb and
problems.

But that's just my 2 cents.

Sascha

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:29:46PM +0100, Sascha Radike
wrote:
> It might also be helpful if all discussions about
enhancements and propasals
> would be moved to bugzilla - just like it is handled by
the eclipse
> community.

No thanks.  I think we have too many people who are used to
working
this way.  Of course, making the bugs mailing list more
helpful might
change that.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery