The Darwin component in Bugzilla

Finlay Dobbie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(Apologies for cross-posting, but I feel this is a non-trivial change
which deserves the widest audience possible.)

There is a "Darwin" component in Bugzilla. At first, it seemed that
this was intended to be a replacement for that crufty old web
front-end to some Radars which disappeared back when the whole
kerfuffle happened.

However, for it to have fulfilled that purpose it would have had to
have had interactions both from outsiders and Apple employees.
Unfortunately, due to Apple politics and the closed nature of Darwin
development that has not been possible.

I find it unclear what useful purpose this serves, as nobody seems to
read it on a regular basis, undoubtedly a fair few of those bugs are
stale, very few external parties are interested in fixing bugs in
Darwin at all, and there's absolutely no interaction from Apple
Engineering whatsoever as far as I can tell.

The downside is that it adds to the impression (correct or not) that
OpenDarwin is somewhat dead, leads to fragmentation of the bug
databases, developers that file the bugs are not aware of their
upstream status at Apple (if there even is one)...

I hereby propose that it be culled.

(<http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/> still refers to it, FWIW.)

 -- Finlay
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