Re: Backwards development

I am not part of bugzilla / bmo projects, but I dont see how anyone is
being prevented from working on an updated UI for bugzilla.

I am currently working on https://www.bzlite.com (
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/bzlite/) and would very much welcome anyone
who wanted to contribute. Similiarly there is https://www.bzdeck.com which
is also open source.


On 20 November 2015 at 16:10, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Denis,
>
> On 20/11/15 15:48, Denis Roy wrote:
> > In Open Source, I don't see how these two models can coexist. In fact, I
> > see this methodology as the biggest possible barrier to external
> > contributions, and no tool (Git, Github) can fix that.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I'm a happy BZ user & admin for many years, but the
> > biggest gripe my userbase has about BZ is the 1990's UI. At Eclipse
> > we're willing to roll up our sleeves and help fix it, but we can't do
> > that when the BZ devs are cheering on the BMO team from the sidelines.
>
> I think there has perhaps been some misunderstanding here. The BMO team
> has made its own decision about how to run BMO; those in the Bugzilla
> community who are not BMO devs may or may not agree with it, but we have
> no say in it. So it seems odd to characterise us as "cheering from the
> sidelines", as if we both endorse what they are doing and are equally
> happy to do nothing while they do it. Both impressions are partially or
> wholly wrong.
>
> The Bugzilla community would love you at Eclipse to get involved and
> help update the UI. One thing you could seriously consider would be
> porting the updated API-using show_bug view deployed on BMO to trunk
> Bugzilla, if you agree that this sort of thing is the future. The BMO
> team have said they don't have time to do that port, but the upstream
> Bugzilla team very much want the feature.
>
> Gerv
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