Backwards development

[Gervase Markham]

Hi Denis,

On 20/11/15 15:48, Denis Roy wrote:
> 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.

I think there has perhaps been some misunderstanding here. The BMO team
has made its own decision about how to run BMO; those in the Bugzilla
community who are not BMO devs may or may not agree with it, but we have
no say in it. So it seems odd to characterise us as "cheering from the
sidelines", as if we both endorse what they are doing and are equally
happy to do nothing while they do it. Both impressions are partially or
wholly wrong.

The Bugzilla community would love you at Eclipse to get involved and
help update the UI. One thing you could seriously consider would be
porting the updated API-using show_bug view deployed on BMO to trunk
Bugzilla, if you agree that this sort of thing is the future. The BMO
team have said they don't have time to do that port, but the upstream
Bugzilla team very much want the feature.

Gerv