Bugzilla bug tracking database for 2.5 now available
This is much of what I hoped to do with the Linux Quality Database:
http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/
alas, the dot-com crash happened, and I've been struggling so hard to keep my little business afloat that I never had enough time to devote to it. It's good to see that someone has set up a bug tracking system that will be a little more accessible to the public than a high-traffic mailing list.
I have some suggestions about how you could improve upon bugzilla to make the database more useful for kernel developers. I mention them on the page above and in my comment in the slashdot discussion about the new bugbase:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=45108&cid=4675035
I didn't consider using bugzilla at first because it didn't have the capabilities of storing configuration info the way I wanted. No bugbase I have ever used has done that, although I would consider it to be a very basic feature for a bug database for kernel bug tracking. I'd meant to write a database app from scratch to do that, which was really more than I could handle. More recently I'd been contemplating modifying bugzilla to do what I want, but these last few months have been really hectic.
Some have pointed out their desire for a vendor-neutral location for the bug database. When I asked around about who could host it, some commercial companies offerred to, but I went with http://sunsite.dk/ in large part because they were not part of any company.
The one thing I _have_ been able to do is write some articles on kernel quality in particular and software quality in general. You'll find them here:
http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/
The OSDL has been kind enough to mirror the kernel testing articles as well as translate them into Japanese. I encourage others to mirror or translate my articles - they are all published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Regards,
Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
[email protected]
Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.