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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by pointlessone on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:02AM (#38160636)
Bugzilla is fine. It looks OK. You can subscribe to individual tickets. It doesn’t support emoji reactions or Markdown but it does the job just fine. One thing it does better than GH issues is ticket dependencies even with tree/graph visualization. GH just has no blockers/blocked issues in any form or shape. New ticket form has a few more fields than the default GH issue form but it’s much better than it used to be back in the days and comparable to custom form on GH. You also can log it with your GH account so not much of a barrier there, too. Seriously, try Mozilla’s bugzilla now and see for yourself. It’s probably not as bad as you remember it.

Also consider that Mozilla’s bugzilla contains quarter of a century worth of tickets. There’s no way it can be moved to GitHub (or wherever) without loss of data.

Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by pascalchevrel on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:30AM (#38160822)
FYI, Bugzilla supports markdown just fine :)
Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by ChrisSD on Monday November 06, 2023 @05:29AM (#38160814)
IIRC, Python managed to move to github issues.
Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by sScTE9qEMCxEk34 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:23PM (#38185991)
Kinda... they completely lost any kind of user-lookup or CCs or versions or any other data... but yeah sure they moved comments I guess that's everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by cpeterso on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:09PM (#38167272)
And AFAIU, GitHub doesn't have a way to limit the visibility of individual tickets, so even Mozilla teams that use GitHub's issue tracker still use Bugzilla for their security bugs.