Have a separate Bugzilla installation for the Bugzilla project?

[mva at sysfault.org]

Quoting Frédéric Buclin <lpsolit at gmail.com>:

> 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?
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A long overdue task; go for it.

Cheers
Marcus