Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:05:22 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD bug tracking moves from GNATS to Bugzilla Message-ID: <92E4FB10-DDC8-4B3E-9242-4E8494491630@FreeBSD.org>
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We are pleased to announce that the FreeBSD project has begin the transition from the GNATS bug-tracking system to Bugzilla. The Bugzilla installation can be found here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ This process is expected to cause some disruption, but comes with several benefits. Bugzilla, unlike GNATS, is actively maintained and is used by a number of other projects of similar size and scope to FreeBSD. We hope that users will be familiar with it from other projects and so not have to learn yet another bug-tracking system to file bugs with FreeBSD. Bugzilla supports finer granularity for categories and keywords and over time we will adopt more of these, making it easier to filter bugs into specific target areas. It is now easy for multiple people to track a single bug, without having to have them assigned to custom mailing lists, add attachments to bugs, and so on. Many features that people expect from a modern bug tracker are simply not present in GNATS. The Bugzilla migration comes with several changes to the workflow, illustrated in this state transition diagram: http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/bugrelocation/workflow.html All of the interaction with the bug tracker can now happen via the web interface. The send-pr script will continue functioning as a compatibility interface, but it is not guaranteed to run in a timely fashion (currently, importing bugs submitted via send-pr involves a manual step). In addition, there are command line tools available in the devel/pybugz package. Going forward, Bugzilla is a more modern platform for integrating with other tools, for example code review systems. This should allow us to improve the workflow for both regular FreeBSD committers and other contributors. Please be warned that there is likely to be some disruption during this process. If you find any specific problems, please file a bug in Bugzilla (now that the search function works well, you can also easily check for duplicates before you file a new issue). If the issue that you encounter is that you can't file bugs, then please send an email to bugmeister@FreeBSD.org. On behalf of Core any myself, many thanks to the people who made this possible. Please be nice to them, they haven't had much sleep recently... David
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