Backwards development

[Denis Roy]

On 11/19/2015 05:08 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> For better or worse, the BMO
> team have decided that working upstream, doing releases and then
> shipping them on bugzilla.mozilla.org is not a model which works given
> their constraints.
> 
> The Bugzilla project is extremely keen to see contributions,
> particularly from outside Mozilla. In fact, Bugzilla's future as an
> independent software project depends on it.


In Open Source, I don't see how these two models can coexist. In fact, I
see this methodology as the biggest possible barrier to external
contributions, and no tool (Git, Github) can fix that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a happy BZ user & admin for many years, but the
biggest gripe my userbase has about BZ is the 1990's UI. At Eclipse
we're willing to roll up our sleeves and help fix it, but we can't do
that when the BZ devs are cheering on the BMO team from the sidelines.

Denis