Have a separate Bugzilla installation for the Bugzilla project?

[Frédéric Buclin]

Hi all,

Seeing how things are going in the Mozilla world, I would suggest that
the Bugzilla project has its own Bugzilla installation, managed by the
upstream Bugzilla team itself. More and more users do not understand
that BMO != upstream Bugzilla, and having their own installation running
unmodified current tip code (currently 5.1) would help 1) users to
discover newly implemented features, and 2) developers to find regressions.

BMO UI and backend code differ more and more from upstream Bugzilla;
some features which exist upstream are being removed from BMO, such as
personal tags, see bug 1227316; many bugs reported by Mozilla users are
specific to BMO and do not affect upstream. So IMO it makes sense to
close the Bugzilla product in BMO and manage upstream bugs in their own
Bugzilla installation instead.

What do you think? Ignore import/export of existing bugs for now. This
is not the most critical part.

Myk filed a bug about this migration a long time ago, see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127876.


LpSolit