Hello all-

[David Miller]

On 11/7/02 4:24 PM -0800, Douglas Smith wrote:

> 2. Can I get the user authentication to use the Apache server
> authentication, instead of the interal bugzilla login?
> And if I do get this to work, and people interested in my
> changes for a later version (I might be a little rough on
> this to get it working quickly).

This has been attempted once or twice...  there's advantages and drawbacks
to it.  See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166794, which I'm
pretty sure is a dupe, because I know there's another bug with a ton more
discussion on it, but I can't find it right now.  The above bug will get
duped to it when I find it.

> 3. We have ~1200 software packages to manage, I am assuming
> that I can't (or shouldn't) create 1200 products in BugZilla,
> any suggestions on how I should split these up, or is there
> a limit (suggested or managable) on the number of components
> in each product?

You can have as many products as you want up to the limits of the
database's key size, and ditto for components.  I think you can have a
total of 32767 products, and the same number of components (total
components, not per product).

You may want a better way of breaking them up on the "choose a product"
page though when you go into Enter Bug.  I have one I'm working on right
now that has a list-box with the products instead of just listing them all
on the page, and the description on the right changes via javascript based
on which one you have selected.  (Look at the Bugzilla Helper on
bugzilla.mozilla.org for an example of this - their Choose-component
section within the guided bug form uses the same code)

> 4. Support for Oracle in the works?  Perhaps I can help with
> this?

It's been done in the past, a LONG time ago.  I wouldn't argue against it
happening again, and I'll likely help with it if it does.  I'm in the
process of making it work with Sybase right now, and Dave Lawrence is
working on support for Postgres.  Both of those will likely be done in the
next month or two.  (Postgres is almost done now, but Dave Lawrence is out
travelling the country in an RV promoting Red Hat right now :)
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