> How about integrating it into BugzillaJS? I don't think we should require a Firefox add-on to use our bug tracker effectively.
We're a web company. We make a web browser. Let's write a webpage. If a browser extension is the only way we can provide a good user experience in our bug tracker and review tool, we have surely failed. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Mike de Boer <mdeb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > How about integrating it into BugzillaJS? > > I'm working on it quite a lot now > (https://github.com/gkoberger/BugzillaJS/pull/77 and > https://github.com/gkoberger/omnium/pull/3) to make some improvements to > Bugzilla 'core'. > > I think an add-on that eventually is good enough to use for Mozillians would > be very beneficial. I think it might even go as far as the add-on being the > frontend and Bugzilla itself being regarded as the backend/ datastore. > > Regardless, doing Github integration in BugzillaJS should be trivial. > > Mike. > > On May 24, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Justin Lebar <justin.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > * I think we should experiment (again) with real pull-request integration > into bugzilla. > > > I'm totally in favor of better tools and real pull requests, and of > course the PRs need to be linked to bugzilla /somehow/. > > But I want to qualify "integration into bugzilla": I explicitly do not > want a tool that is tightly coupled to bugzilla. In fact, I want a > tool that has as little to do with bugzilla as feasible. > > I mean no disrespect to our bugzilla maintainers, who have an > impossible and largely thankless job, but bugzilla has so much baggage > from the '90s, my experience is that it ruins everything it touches. > Consider for example how much better harthur's fileit and dashboard > tools [1] [2] are than bugzilla's built-in equivalents. > > We shouldn't conflate owning the PR data with integrating the PR tool > into bugzilla. If we do, we risk ending up with yet another crappy > non-solution to a real problem (see bugzilla interdiff, splinter > integration, and so on). > > -Justin > > [1] http://harthur.github.com/fileit/ > [2] http://harthur.github.io/bugzilla-todos/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
