[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126818] Migration to GitLab or a similar service

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126818

--- Comment #7 from Claudius Ellsel <claudius.ellsel at live.de> ---
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #6)
> Over here at LibreOffice-land, we do not want to reduce the number of users
> contributing to bug analysis. We can only wish they would choose the right
> platform from the start (ask.libreoffice.org for questions etc), but there
> is certainly not a desire to sweep issues under the rug.

Good to hear. Just one thing I noticed about the wording: Bugzilla is mostly
calling the actual issues "bugs" and also you are referring to it mostly for
bug analysis in your comment. This might have an impact on what users think
this is for. I remember that I wanted to propose a feature some years ago in a
different project using Bugzilla. At first I was a bit puzzled, whether that
was really the correct place for feature requests, since everything seemed to
be focused on bug reports. Even in this feature request here, I had to fill in
the fields for steps to reproduce and so on. This is probably also mostly on
Mozillas side, but I wanted to point that out.

> When freedesktop announced GitLab, I contacted Daniel Stone, who maintains
> the infra and pointed him to Bugzilla 6. He was not aware of the
> developments and it is possible that the infrastructural decisions would
> have been different if he had known about them.

That would have been indeed interesting. I am fine with the way they went and
it was also not only because of the issue tracker, but also because they could
have all their services in one place (which is also a thing to consider for
LibreOffice as I mentioned some posts earlier). That is in my opinion a really
big benefit of GitLab. So I hope the decision to stay with the current setup
having Jenkins, Gerrit etc. will be overthought. This is a barrier for
Newcomers and small contributions. It can also be linked to Bugzilla, if you
don't like their issue tracker right now.

For now I hope, the development of Bugzilla speeds up a bit to keep up with the
other issue trackers from GitHub and GitLab (whose success probably also
accelerated the change in some ways of thinking at Bugzilla like comment
editing).

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