Subject: Re: Bugzilla
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 09:45:28 CST
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:11:17PM +0100, Jesper Skov wrote:
> >>>>> "Sam" == Sam TH <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:
>
> Sam> At about midnight CDT on Wednesday, I backed up the bugzilla
> Sam> database, and installed a more recent version of bugzilla. This
> Sam> didn't work, due to some low-quality bugzilla code, and the
> Sam> significant modifications made to our version of bugzilla. =20
>
> I'm very sorry to hear this. I was just about to work up some courage
> to ask you about your bugzilla update plans.
>
> Want to share what the specific problems are?
Well, as you can see I worked around the problems (or at least most of
them). But the low-quality code was the fact that the options for a
bug STATUS were hardcoded in dozens of places throughout the code. So
some shell-scripting, and some manual hacking were neccessary to get
it to play nice with our system.
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