Re: bugs.php.net website

From:	Rowan Collins	Date:	Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:02:22 +0000
Subject:	Re: bugs.php.net website
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On 20/07/2017 13:22, Sara Golemon wrote:

FWIW, I started toying with the idea to rewrite it earlier this year

I realise a total rewrite isn't for the most part what people are gunning for on this thread, but some may be thinking it, so I thought I'd repeat my response on Twitter at the time:

Does PHP / the world really need Yet Another Bug Tracker? Are there unique requirements, or is it just NIH Syndrome? If it's just a case of "all the current ones suck", that's a slightly different project: "new open source bug tracker that doesn't suck"?

That's not to say other bug trackers *don't* suck, and maybe "mutate the codebase into something awesome" could also be a cool project, but it's worth weighing that effort against hacking on bugzilla (to pick a semi-random example) in a sustainable way, and getting two-way flow from other projects using the same codebase. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]