[Mesa-dev] Switching to Gitlab Issues instead of Bugzilla?

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Thu Aug 29 22:02:23 UTC 2019


Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> writes:

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> Hi all,
>
> As a lot of you have probably noticed, Bugzilla seems to be getting a
> lot of spam these days - several of us have been disabling a bunch of
> accounts per day, sweeping new reports under the rug, hiding comments,
> etc.  This bug spam causes emails to be sent (more spam!) and then us
> to have to look at ancient bugs that suddenly have updates.
>
> I think it's probably time to consider switching away from Bugzilla.
> We are one of the few projects remaining - Mesa, DRM, and a few DDX
> drivers are still there, but almost all other projects are gone:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi
>
> Originally, I was in favor of retaining Bugzilla just to not change too
> many processes all at once.  But we've been using Gitlab a while now,
> and several of us have been using Gitlab issues in our personal repos;
> it's actually pretty nice.

Yes, please.  I haven't been participating in bugzilla, in favor of
personal github and krh's mesa gitlab.
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