UI module owner

[Gervase Markham]

Daniel Berlin wrote:
> I have maintained many Bugzillae, and I have *never had a single
> Bugzilla where all i had to do was change templates*.

Did you make the same changes each time, or different changes depending
on the circumstances?

Or, to phrase the question another way, do you think it's realistic to
aim to have a bug system which works for a significant percentage of
people without requiring code changes?

Which changes did you most commonly have to make?

> The only people i've met who *ever* use Bugzilla in it's default
> configuration are those who are using it very temporarily, and don't
> want to "fuss with code to get it to work how I want". That's an exact
> quote, btw.  Note the use of the word "code". This is not a mistake.  No
> interesting customization people perform can be performed to Bugzilla
> without modifying the *existing code*.

There are loads of "interesting" customisations you can make without
modifying code. Perhaps you meant "useful"?

If so, I'd be interested to know why bug entry templates, the format
system, the skin system, the custom templates system and the hooks
system are all not useful? Did we solve all the wrong problems? Or did
we start solving the right problems but not go far enough?

Gerv