Where does the Bugzilla Project go from here?

[Dave Miller]

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To Frédéric: Thanks again for all your hard work over the years. As
stretched as I’ve been for time myself it’s been a true godsend to have
you picking up my slack the last few years.  I'll have to be picking it
up on my own now for a bit it seems. ;)

To everyone else: For the time being, I'll be handling approval
requests, so if you have something up for approval and it's not getting
attention, I'm the one to pester.

This is sort of the end of an era for the Bugzilla project...  Both Max
and Frédéric have been with the project for much longer than most people
every stick with a single employer in IT-related jobs (of which an open
source project of this magnitude has a lot of similarities).  For an
open source project, that's outright amazing, as people tend to come and
go a lot in most projects.  It's kind of surprising that I've been
around longer than them, but I'm kind of a "lifer" in some ways, and in
reality I've had a good break from the project for the last few years
because Max and Frédéric have been mostly taking care of everything
while I've been busy with other things.

So it's time to begin a new era.  Since I've had a good break to clear
the monotony I'm going to be trying to get more involved myself again
(which I've been saying every since Max left, but I have a lot more
incentive now).  I'd also like to kickstart a new team to lead the
project. We have a number of positions within the project for various
functions, which we've never really paid attention to as people moved
on.  I'd like to hold a project meeting (either on IRC or Google
Hangouts or somesuch) in the very near future (a time and date will be
announced soon) to discuss what of those positions in the project we
still need, and who should be filling them.  We also have some other
"reinventing the project" type topics while we're at it.  There's a
number of things we've been talking about doing for a long time that we
never really moved on, and when we're in the middle of big changes like
this, I think it's a good time to attempt to tackle those again.

The preliminary agenda has been posted at
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Meetings and I'll be nailing down a
time and place and advertising it within the next couple days.

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Dave Miller http://www.justdave.net/
IT Infrastructure Engineer, Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/
Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System http://www.bugzilla.org/

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