Musings on bug trackers

Over the past couple of weeks we migraged jsonrpc-glib, template-glib, libdazzle, and gnome-builder all to gitlab.gnome.org. It’s been a pretty smooth process, thanks to a lot of hard work by a few wonderfully accommodating people.

I love bugzilla, I really do. I’ve used it nearly my entire career in free software. I know it well, I like the command line tool integration. But I’ve never had a day in bugzilla where I managed to resolve/triage/close nearly 100 issues. I managed to do that today with our gitlab instance and I didn’t even mean to.

So I guess that’s something. Sometimes modern tooling can have a drastic effect rather immediately.