Simpler Bugzilla

[Gervase Markham]

I had someone complaining to me recently that Bugzilla's UI was too 
complicated. I said that some people needed all those fields; he replied 
that still, there was no need to show them by default.

Is it worth us considering whether we want to make default Bugzilla use 
fewer fields? Are there some switchable ones turned on by default that 
we could turn off? Or can we put a few more hard-coded ones inside [% IF 
%] blocks to make them switchable?

Also, chatting with Myk over lunch, a couple of things that would make 
installation simpler:

- We could support and ship with SQLite. I suspect it would be all that 
90% of installations needed, and removes the need to set up and 
configure MySQL or PgSQL.

- We could ship with a simple Perl webserver or lighttpd, which removes 
the need to set up and configure Apache. We don't use many advanced 
webserver features; as long as it obeys .htaccess files, we should be fine.

With these two features, installing Bugzilla would be a case of:

- Download and unpack
- Run the module install script
- Do first-run config in the GUI like your SMTP server name
- Done.

Not even any localconfig, as far as I can see.

What do people think?

Gerv


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