Backwards development

[Dave Miller]

Denis Roy wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 05:08 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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.

Part of the problem is there are currently about two active bugzilla
devs that aren't also part of the BMO team right now, and both of those
two are doing Bugzilla on their own time and not as part of their day
jobs (which mostly don't involve Bugzilla at all these days).  These
people have been begging the BMO folks to keep porting their stuff. But
that's all they can do.

It's kind of ironic... Bugzilla used to do pretty well independently,
but was always complaining to Mozilla because they were the primary user
of the product and didn't contribute any developers.  Three or four
years ago that changed when they finally hired a few developers to
actually work on Bugzilla (specifically for BMO, but initially they were
pretty religious about porting everything that was appropriate).  It
feels to me like after Mozilla finally got developers, everyone else was
suddenly "oh, Mozilla has developers for it now, we don't need to help
them anymore" and everyone from outside Mozilla that had been active
disappeared.  And this happened as a result.

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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/