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After 9 Years, Bugzilla Moves Up to 3.0

Posted by Zonk on from the moving-on-up dept.

BuggyUser writes "Bugzilla, the popular application to track and manage software development bug reports, has moved up to version 3.0. The 2.x series has been in service for the last nine years. From the article: 'According to the Bugzilla 3.0 release announcement, some of the new features in this version include custom fields, support for the Apache mod_perl module, per-product permissions, an XML-RPC interface, and the ability to create and edit bugs via email. A demo site has been set up where users can test the new version before downloading.'" Linux.com and Slashdot.org are both owned by OSTG.

3 of 99 comments (clear)

  1. Don't rewrite from scratch by RedMagic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bugzilla's 9-year-road to 3.0 is a good example of why code should very rarely been rewritten from scratch and even if, then never the whole codebase. The more ambitious the goal one tries to achieve by that the harder the task - especially if one needs to keep updating the old codebase. There is no code which cannot be iteratively improved to achieve whatever the fresh code is suppose to.

  2. Re:Compared to test director.. by moranar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ahem. The normal userbase of a bug tracking program is not composed of coders and engineers?

    --
    "I think it would be a good idea!"
    Gandhi, about Internet Security
  3. Re:Where are the perlheads? by renoX · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well for me, the more I used Perl, the less I liked it so I'm not surprised that Perl's popularity has faded..

    When I was taught Perl, I thought 'cool a better, more powerful, portable shell' and then I had to maintain Perl's code, some written by beginners and some by 'experts'.. And I discovered what a mess Perl is..

    Sure it's portable but the language don't give you the correct defaults so beginners code is usually awful AND experienced Perl coders let them sucked by TWTDI which makes their code hard to maintain by anybody else..

    It takes *a lot* of self-discipline to write maintainable/readable Perl, so not surprisingly lots of Perl code is junk.

    Hating Perl, I looked for another language and found Ruby which unfortunately I don't use that much as my boss won't let me do it (not widespread enough for him), *sigh* such a beautiful language and having to use shell or Perl instead..