Bugzilla as a task management tool

[Yannick Koehler]

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> Yannick Koehler wrote:
> > And if you do hack it all, release as patch and submit to all, people
> > will use it and then bugzilla developer will understand that this is what
> > Bugzilla user need and at some point in time will be force to integrate
> > or support this concept.
>
> There is flawed logic in this statement. Bugzilla users (that is,
> organisations) probably also need an email server, but that doesn't mean
> Bugzilla should contain one.

That guy wasn't asking for third party integration but for the notion of 
changing bugs into tasks.  Which seems very interesting.  This could be 
implemented as another field that say if an entry is a bug, task, ticket 
etc...  You then use the dependency system to sort them properly and you can 
then have a display of a bug with all its dependency task (because you can 
differentiate between a bug and a task at the data layer now due to the new 
field).

Have Bugzilla becomes more generic than a bug database and maybe become a 
Tracking System instead of a Bug Tracking System.  This would only reflect 
its reality as most people use it for enhancement tracking which are not Bug 
and for ticket which again are not bug.

Also having that field could allow for bugzilla to offer a plugin type that 
would make it possible for developer that wants to offer different template/
view based on the type of the entry to be able to do so.  Same with which 
fields are requested by bug, by task, etc..  

The logic is also not flawed because that is how open source works, make it 
yourself, distribute it and market (see users) will force main branches to 
follow on the feature that actually are used most often.

As you have read, I didn't ask bugzilla developer to do it, but to that person 
to do it and then give it to bugzilla developers for them to integrate/reject 
when they have time.

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Yannick Koehler
Software Designer - Colubris Networks Inc.

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