Moving Bugzilla to git?

Denis Roy denis.roy at eclipse.org
Thu Oct 24 20:24:51 UTC 2013


On 10/24/2013 04:09 PM, Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> And about attracting more contributors thanks to a migration to git, I 
> absolutely don't believe in this at all. I spent enough time on the 
> Bugzilla project to know that it's irrelevant. What matters is the 
> language used by Bugzilla, i.e. Perl, and developers coding in this 
> language. 
FWIW, when Bugzilla was on CVS I used to submit the occasional patch, 
but the switch to bzr killed me.  Like you, I couldn't get bzr running 
and after trying exactly once, I gave up.  I now upgrade Bugzilla using 
tarballs and patches.

If I can fix small bugs fairly easily, I will, but I didn't feel like 
struggling with bzr.  If Mozilla uses a code review system like Gerrit 
(I highly recommend it), it makes reviewing and accepting contributions 
a breeze.

YMMV

Denis



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