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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

The only reason Bugzilla is seen by the masses to be So Much Better than debbugs is because KDE was using an age-old version of Bugzilla (about 3 years old IIRC), and certain people refused offers of help to upgrade it, and implement systems like the PTS, that would completely match (and, IMHO, surpass) Bugzilla. All I can say that the options weren't properly considered; it's like comparing a 1991 Lancer to an SS Commodore, whereas if you used an up-to-date Evo, you'd have a chance against the Commodore ...

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

I think the reason Bugzilla is seen by the masses to be So Much Better than debbugs is that the masses have never heard of debbugs. I certainly hadn't until you mentioned it just now, even though apparently that's what KDE was using for some time. In contrast, now you can't visit a page at bugs.kde.org without reading the word "Bugzilla" at least three times. Maybe you need to look into ways of getting better branding for debbugs :-)

P.S. I assume you meant "KDE was using an age-old version of _debbugs_," not Bugzilla...

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Re: neato
by David Faure on Thursday 19/Sep/2002, @04:10

The biggest problem was that things didn't happen in real time with ddebugs (send mail, wait for answer, pages regenerated the day after...). With bugzilla it's all immediate, thanks to the SQL backend.
Has this changed in ddebugs?

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