Re: Fwd: Let's move on our bug tracking system and git repository

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 18:25 +0200, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Abel <akronix5 gmail com> wrote:
> > It's slow and tedious to search for bugs by products. I'd be easy
> > if every
> > product had it's own folder or something like I could go to
> > bugzilla.gnome.org/shotwell/buglist.cgy?quicksearch="something"

That's exactly what the big search field on the product page does:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=shotwell

> > The web site don't support diff between commits and branches.
>
> cgit can show commit diffs and this is integrated in bugzilla (when
> you write a commit hash in bugzilla, it links there directly). Now
> maybe this diff has less features (I don't think you can diff against
> any random branch, only against its own parent).

For the records, it's a custom hack that you automatically get links to
cgit in Bugzilla comments if the Bugzilla product name in the Bugzilla
ticket matches the Git code repository name.

> > Not support for markdown or flavoured text.

IIRC Bugzilla 6 will support markdown. 
Just saying; and not saying we'd migrate to Bugzilla 6 anytime soon.

> > New features and integrations that bugzilla doesn't seem to ever have. For
> > instance: webhooks, mobile clients,... think of all the third party services
> > have integration with github, gitlab and so.

I'd be interested in specific use cases ("I want to achieve X") instead
of technologies. 
In my opinion Bugzilla's problem already *is* feature creep. :)

Cheers,
andre
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