decentralization

[Gervase Markham]

> Scoping the bug numbers to the individual project/products makes each
> project/product seem a bit more homey.  It's not quite so dauntng if you
> think of your particular project having only 40 bugs 

You can - just search for bugs in your project. Measuring things about a 
project by counting bugs is bogus anyway.

> rather than the
> hundreds of millions for all of the projects all over the internet that
> use bugzilla.

A centralised number allocation would also be bad, because it implies a 
central authority to hand out numbers.

> Here's the question right back at you:  What's the benefit of having a
> global counter for the number of bugs for all projects hosted at BMO? 

Ease of implementation. Lack of confusion when referring to bugs in 
newsgroups. Simple URLs, with just one thing to remember.

> If there's a benefit, wouldn't that benefit increase if it were expanded
> globally, and not just at BMO?  

No. See above. :-)

Gerv