[Hamara-devel] did we do a mistake in choosing bugzilla ?

Vikas Tara vik at hamaralinux.org
Fri May 1 09:22:55 BST 2015


On 30/04/15 17:42, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> I think one of the reasons which never entered into the discussion 
> when choosing bug-trackers is how long the support release would be of 
> bugzilla.
>
> I looked at release information and from the history it seems that the 
> official support release is only around 6 months~year at the most.
>
> See https://www.bugzilla.org/releases/
>
> This would mean updates to bugzilla every 6 months to a year.
>
> I do not know what people make of that as whenever a new release
> or two comes, we would need to make a demo machine and see how our 
> production bugs fare on that.
>
The upgrade path is pretty clean though - have not faced major issues. 
If you see the 6 monthly releases they seem to be minor releases against 
4.4 - wouldn't expect massive changes between them.

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