Simpler Bugzilla

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:16:11 +0200 "Andrés G. Aragoneses"
<knocte at NO-SPAM-PLEASE-gmail.com> wrote:
> By generating cross-distro RPMs, installing Bugzilla would be a case
> of:

	Fedora already has an RPM for Bugzilla, meaning that EPEL (for
RHEL) also has one. They're very good about keeping it up-to-date. I
think that other distros also have an RPM.

	An RPM wouldn't cover Debian or Ubuntu (though they have a
package...but it's out-of-date, as I recall).

	An RPM also wouldn't cover Mac or Windows.

	So the only big distros who would benefit would be SuSE and
Mandriva.

> web-based UI for initial configuration, like other products already
> have (drupal, mediawiki...).

	No, I tried developing it and it wasn't worth the effort and
complexity it would add to installation. See these two bugs for
details:

	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270066
	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389845

Probably a better solution is just to ask people for info during
checksetup (like their MySQL root password) and just set up everything
else automatically.

	-Max
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