Bugzilla - New Front End

[Deepak Patil]

Since the technology is different , i am going to write everything from
scratch. By doing this it will be ensured that no code will be copied from
bugzilla project.

Regarding motivation for doing this, Bugzilla is most popular open source
bug tracking system. But it is implemented in  old technology which
involves many postbacks and makes browsing little(more?) slow. At least i
can say not as friendly as today's web 2.0 applications.

I want to keep it very simple and very similar to bugzilla so that
migration will be very easy. i.e. Just install Web application and give
access to existing bugzilla database.

I understand bugzilla is pretty big project  so i am going step by step.
First create basic bug browser/editor and some part of reporting. Not
considering testopia and other plugins right now.

Regarding license, since this will be open source project. We can release
it with any license which will be beneficial to the community and keep it
free.

So can i go ahead with this ?

Regards,
Deepak Patil






On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv at mozilla.org> wrote:

> On 08/02/12 09:21, Deepak Patil wrote:
>
>> So is there any  licensing or legal issue by doing this ?
>>
>
> It depends.
>
> Here is a rough rule of thumb: if you have copied and pasted any code or
> information from Bugzilla files, then the files you have copied them into
> (even if you subsequently went through "converting" to JSP and deleting the
> old stuff) need to be licensed under the MPL.
>
> If you just read the documentation and wrote the code from scratch, you
> can license it how you like.
>
> Can I ask, though: what motivated you to do this project? It seems like a
> great deal of work. Are you planning to reimplement the entirety of
> Bugzilla in Java? Bugzilla is a lot more than a database and a display
> system.
>
> Gerv
>
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