Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Open source: How it could serve you better looks at ESR's the catethedral and bazaar a few years later. It addresses Mozilla specifically and questions the nature of open source bugfixing.  The article neglects to mention that the Open Source process is in work on bug tracking systems, bugzilla in particular. There's some major work occuring to separate logic from presentation in Bugzilla happening currently and my hopes are this well break open the gates to improving the way it functions. The key drawback seen in the Mozilla.org process is the huge number of duplicates. A usable search interface and better buglists won't solve this, but it's a help. While further away, I'm confident a top duplicate text match at new bug submission time will make it into the system eventually. It's, as they say, a squeaky wheel. 7:14:04 PM    comment