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KDE Switches To Bugzilla

Posted by Daniel Naber on Tuesday 17/Sep/2002, @20:32
from the meesa-do-not-know dept.
We have recently switched our entire Bug Tracking System to Bugzilla. Unlike the old system, Bugzilla is based on MySQL and thus enables advanced search functions and offers many other features such as email notification and voting. However, for access to the more advanced features and for bug and comment submission, users will need an account. Fortunately, the bug wizard will automatically create an account when used for the first time. All existing bugs from the old system have been migrated to the new system thanks to the efforts of Stephan Kulow.

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Nice
by Chakie on Tuesday 17/Sep/2002, @23:29

I read somewhere a mail about how GNOME switched to Bugzilla, but it seemed like they had some more problems with getting it to work. Seems KDE had an easier time migrating to Bugzilla.

I can't really comment on the merits of Bugzilla vs. "the old system", but it has to be A Good Thing(tm) as so many high profile projects use it?

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Re: Nice by Anonymous on Tuesday 17/Sep/2002, @23:59

Re: Nice by TunaBomber on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @17:02

Re: Nice by Otter on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @11:09

KBugBuster
by Peter on Tuesday 17/Sep/2002, @23:44

Is KBugBuster working with the new system again?

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Re: KBugBuster by Anonymous on Tuesday 17/Sep/2002, @23:54

KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla reports
by Wayne Schuller on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @00:15

hi,

The Gnome bugzilla has a number of useful bugzilla reports, some of which I am the author of.

The KDE team might find it helpful using these on their bugzilla.

The reports are at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports.cgi

The source code of the cgi is at:
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/bugzilla/

thanks,
Wayne Schuller

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Re: KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla repo by me on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @05:55
Re: KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla repo by Datschge on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @05:57

Re: KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla repo by Datschge on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @18:48

Re: KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla reports by Daniel Naber on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @06:01

Re: KDE should use some of the Gnome bugzilla reports by Anonymous on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @06:56

Great work
by germain on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @02:12

At last fast and accurate bug queries !
Excellent duplicates handling !
CC on bugs !!

I love it :)
Thanks to Stephan and all other people who made it possible...

Two questions I have :
- Isn't the three letters limit a bit high ? How would one check for "CSS" in khtml for instance ? Wouldn't it be possible to use stop words instead, in order to allow acronym searches ?

- Is the infamous whineatnews.pl daemon running ? :-D

G.

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Re: Great work by Daniel Naber on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @03:53

KDE switches to GNOME ??!?
by KingOfDesKtop on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @06:37

Bugzilla is the GNOME bug reporting tool ! It's been created by Mozilla, these GTK servants ! Why can't our coders come with something of their own ?
I don't want to report bugs with this GNOME tool !

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Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Daniel Naber on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @06:50

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Dawit A. on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @20:12

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Ricardo Cruz on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @08:26

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Julian Rockey on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @08:41

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by GF on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @08:57
Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by fault on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @09:59

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by fault on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:02

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Jeff on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:53

I hope so.... by Maarten Rommerts on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @11:47

Re: I hope so.... by NetPig on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @07:21
Re: I hope so.... by Christian Parpart on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @08:43

Re: I hope so.... by fault on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @09:30

Re: I hope so.... by Christian Parpart on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @11:14

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Pete on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:53

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Klaus Mertelz on Monday 30/Sep/2002, @01:26

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Stof on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @08:35

Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by fault on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @09:33
Re: KDE switches to GNOME ??!? by Sta on Thursday 09/Jan/2003, @17:05

will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ?
by frederic on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @09:35

I wonder if all reported bugs will be fixed BEFORE the 3.1 release

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Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by Anonymous on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:20

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by frederic on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:34

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by Anonymous on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @10:45

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by Christian Parpart on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @08:48

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by Scott Manson on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @17:37

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by frederic on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @06:39

Re: will all bugs be fixed for the 3.1 release ? by Scott Wheeler on Saturday 21/Sep/2002, @07:44

neato
by not me on Wednesday 18/Sep/2002, @14:26

Wow, the way KDE has Bugzilla configured is much better than the way Mozilla has it configured. Mozilla's Bugzilla is far too cluttered and clunky to use. KDE's is much cleaner and nicer. The inclusion of QuickSearch on the front page is especially nice, Bugzilla's query form needs some major usability work. I would only suggest making the choices "Search Bugzilla" and "A much more complex search" instead of the other way around :-)

The KDE bugs team has been doing a great job. The original bug reporting system was quite good, it just didn't have the feature set that bugzilla has. Now it seems we have the best of both worlds!

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Re: neato by Daniel Stone on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @00:39

Re: neato by not me on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @03:32
Re: neato by David Faure on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @04:10

Vote!
by Anton on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @01:44

It's your duty to vote to help identify the most annoying bugs for KDE 3.1 and most requested features which then may be implemented first for KDE 3.2 or higher. See http://makeashorterlink.com/?A574317D1 for the current highest voted bugs and wishes.

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AC, where are you?
by Foo on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @08:33

[sarcasm]
AC, it's time to cut & paste your "Bugzilla is not userfriendly" and "you suck"-posts again!

AC? AC! Where are you?
[/sarcasm]

But really... who cares wether KDE uses Bugzilla or not? Just because it's created by the Mozilla project and is used by GNOME doesn't make it The Ultimate Evil(tm).

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I leave KDE.
by Martin Behrens on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @18:40

Amen, KDE is doomed. In the past I've seen to much GNOME shit moving to KDE. It's time for me switching over to GNOME completely then. Goodbye people it was really nice with you but seems that GNOME is starting to dominating everywhere. I can't belive this, it started 1 year after KDE and now KDE people is using their code all overwhere.

- Xfree CVS has a shitload of GNOME stuff now (libxml2, pkgconfig, xcoursors, fontconfig, xft2) all done by GNOME people such as Daniel Vaillant, Keith Packard, Havoc Pennington.
- KDE is using GNOME libraries now, like libxml2, libxslt, libart_lgpl and librsvg
- Now KDE uses that shitty Bugzilla which is a nightmare to use. Which requires me to create another fucking account only to post some fucking bugs. As if I don't have enough accounts already.

I don't understand why KDE is starting to suck so much. I'm totally disapointed.

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Funny. by Datschge on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @19:19
Re: I leave KDE. by fault on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @21:24
Re: I leave KDE. by Maarten Rommerts on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @12:44
Re: I leave KDE. by Klaus Mertelz on Monday 30/Sep/2002, @01:33

Neat Bugzilla features
by Gervase Markham on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @02:58

I'm one of the Bugzilla developers. Here are some neat Bugzilla features that you might want to use:

http://bugs.kde.org/duplicates.cgi
- list of the most frequently reported bugs (those with the most duplicates). Good for potential bug-filers to look at.

You can change multiple bugs at once, when logged in with sufficient privileges - see the option at the bottom of the buglist page. Great for mass-reassignments if a coder leaves.

If you change the columns on your buglist (colchange.cgi), Bugzilla remembers which ones you last chose.

If you use Mozilla (perhaps quite unlikely round here), there's a Bugzilla sidebar with a load of neat features. However, it needs a small bit of JS to fire off the installer, which has been removed from the front page. If you want it, ask for it back.

You can save regularly-run queries (see the bottom of query.cgi) and have them appear in your page footer, for one-click access to "Bugs Assigned To Me" or something like that.

http://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi
You can control exactly when Bugzilla sends you email, about what events - head over to the user preferences.

You can get bugs as XML:
http://bugs.kde.org/xml.cgi
or buglists as RDF (add &format=rdf to your query string.)

Individual comments are hyperlinked using anchors, so you can refer to them in emails etc. Bugzilla also autolinkifies comments in several neat ways, so text such as "bug 123, comment 4" or "http://www.google.com" will become a link without you needing to type any <a href> nonsense.

Hope those are useful :-)

Gerv

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Re: Neat Bugzilla features by Daniel Naber on Friday 20/Sep/2002, @05:46
Re: Neat Bugzilla features by Aaron J. Seigo on Saturday 21/Sep/2002, @11:25
Re: Neat Bugzilla features by Bijumon V Gopalan on Sunday 29/Feb/2004, @22:11

Finally
by MrFoo on Saturday 21/Sep/2002, @06:09

Great move. That old bug tracking system was _really_ bad.

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Re: Finally by . on Saturday 21/Sep/2002, @06:21

Re: Finally by MrFoo on Saturday 21/Sep/2002, @06:49

Offline editing bugs
by Hakenuk on Sunday 29/Sep/2002, @12:14

- no offline posting of bugreports

- not easy for beginners

- overloaded for small project modules

- no annonymous posting

- gui is crap

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Re: Offline editing bugs by Stof on Wednesday 02/Oct/2002, @08:40

Re: Offline editing bugs by Peter on Monday 14/Oct/2002, @02:30

Re: Offline editing bugs by Amanuel Zaid on Saturday 30/Aug/2003, @07:55

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