Re: .desktop -> bugzilla

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Thanks for the additional context, Morten. Don't worry, we won't be
going back to debbugs :) We're still poking at bugzilla-test.gnome.org;
I'm hoping to address the last remaining upgrade hurdle this afternoon.

Luis

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 11:01, Morten Welinder wrote:
> 
> "It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me.
> It is only when I think of Thee."
> 
> ----
> 
> We are not going back to debbugs with one iota of cooperation from
> me.  I'll bite, kick, and scream all the way.
> 
> Debbugs might have improved since whatever version we were using,
> but it was a major task just keeping it running.
> 
> Accidentally sent an unencoded core file?  Bang!  No more bugs.gnome.org
> until Morten had time to find and fix.
> 
> Link 200 duplicates of a bug?  Bang!  40M disk space gone; 40 MB
> email generated.  Bugs.gnome.org down until Morten had time to fix.
> 
> Close all rp3 -- RedHat ppp dialer -- bugs?  How?  One by one, no
> less.  Try not to use 1GB in the process...
> 
> Lots of debbugs activity was O(n^2) or worse in time and disk space.
> Which?  Trial and error.  Did you ever try "ls -l" in a directory
> with 80000 files in it, trying to find a large file?
> 
> I had root access to the bug and several brute-force perl scripts
> to search the database -- only I could do that -- and I still couldn't
> keep us with the junk coming in.  ("junk" == "unhelpful stuff".)
> It was way too easy to file such junk -- some of it possibly well
> intended.
> 
> Then of course the box was in .mx and was too small, flakey, and too
> easy to hack.  The choice came between not running at all and deleting
> old bug reports.  I think Owen took out a contract on me for that,
> but the old ones got deleted.
> 
> ----
> 
> "It's not the leaving of `Liberal' that grieves me.
> It's the joining of the Ess Pee Dee."
> 
> Ahem.
> 
> Morten
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