decentralization

[Jim Walters]

On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:41, C.J. Collier wrote:

> bugzilla would do well to decentralize.  Each bugzilla server should
> communicate with others.  Bug reports should be shared between projects.

This is the some of the motivating push behind web services. Maybe the
thing to do is to take some some time and polish the XML schema,
implement XML-RPC and then publish/register the WSDL in a UDDI as
described here:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsdl3/?dwzone=webservices

Though Bugzilla would have to change a bit to enable a flexible
authorization system the storage requirements (in at least one design)
shouldn't cause an issue since you would just need to store a GUID which
would be used for subsequent display of details. And you obviously would
not want queries to be across referenced reports.

There are a couple of other advantage to doing this...

Last I looked there wasn't a WSDL for quality assurance defect reports.
Bugzilla define and promulgate this standard. By advancing the adoption
of a standard you probably would enhance the adoption of Bugzilla itself
since this level of interoperability doesn't much excist in the
commercial world. And I know from my experience that most complex
commercial undertakings usually require of multiple corporate
development groups. And there is the positive attribute of providing
external components interfaces to the Bugzilla system which are
decoupled from MySQL and perl modules. 

But I guess all that takes time and resources, doesn't it? :-)

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