Getting rid of Landfill?

[Gervase Markham]

For a long time, the Bugzilla project has run Landfill
<http://landfill.bugzilla.org/>, a testing and development server. It's
had various roles over the years, but right now it just runs some
installs of Bugzilla that people can use to try it out. It doesn't run
tip installs because "Tip requires Perl 5.14 that's not readily
available for CentOS 5." This has been the case for some time now, and
doesn't look like getting easily fixed. There's been a sort of plan to
upgrade it but no-one has found the time for months.

In 2017, do we need this? Developers don't need it - if they need a
Bugzilla, they just install one locally, in a VM of some sort if
necessary, or use Docker, or whatever. Is it valuable enough to
potential users of Bugzilla?

The 5.0 install on Landfill seems to have quite a lot of use, but it
seems to be mostly by people using it for their own bug tracking, or who
are very confused.

The reason to get rid of it is that it's barely maintained, and so a
possible security risk, and worrying about it takes up developer and
volunteer time that could better be spent elsewhere. If we did want a
test server, perhaps a simple one running the latest stable version, why
don't we just fire up a VM and install one on a modern OS, rather than
trying to rebuild the current landfill box?

Input on what we should do here is welcome :-)

Gerv

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