RE: is scarab at its end of lifetime ?

I plan to use Scarab in my development projects. I now have a choice of Scarab or Bugzilla. I have OpenSuse 11.1 installed on my computer. I have been trying to install Scarab for nearly a week. Tried every trick on earth. Searched over many sites. Till date I have not been able to build it ...I an really running out of my patience...I am now to take a hard decision to install bugzilla.

Why I chose Scarab?
1. I am using Subversion as my Version management tool.
2. I am a sort of experimenter...I love new products and development.
3. I wanted tighter integration with Subversion.
4. Wanted an open source tool.
5. Wanted something different from Bugzilla which I have been using all these times.

I found Scarab (from its technical details) fit my bill a lot.

Now the truth...Is scarab relevant? It is a relevant software but going into irrelevance. Yes its fading....

If it takes more than a week to install and still the installation is not possible means nobody will use it ....The installation is stuck in a time wrap of about 2 years ago..it is still relaying on Maven 1.11 while the Maven itself has moved. So the software does not build not at all....

Its extremely urgent that some thing be done on the installation. ITS CRITICAL.

PLEASE REWRITE THE INSTALL SCRIPT SO THAT IT INSTALLS ON OPENSUSE 11.1

Then there has to be further development over a period of time..with tighter integration into the following products:

1. Subversion.
2. Continuous build : Cruise Control.
3. WIki...
4. Better Reports required (graphical reports).

Only then it will crawl back to relevance....soon it will become a serious competitor for Bugzilla....

Build glamor around Scarab....

Its a great product...make it better. Its my appeal....

Finally: Please help me build and install Scarab on Opensuse 11.1

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