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author | gerv%gerv.net <> | 2002-07-28 07:00:17 +0200 |
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committer | gerv%gerv.net <> | 2002-07-28 07:00:17 +0200 |
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diff --git a/docs/xml/variants.xml b/docs/xml/variants.xml index 5fbea801f..73f6822fb 100644 --- a/docs/xml/variants.xml +++ b/docs/xml/variants.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN">--> -<chapter id="variants" xreflabel="Bugzilla Variants and Competitors"> +<appendix id="variants" xreflabel="Bugzilla Variants and Competitors"> <title>Bugzilla Variants and Competitors</title> <para>I created this section to answer questions about Bugzilla competitors @@ -13,13 +13,12 @@ <section id="rhbugzilla" xreflabel="Red Hat Bugzilla"> <title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title> - <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is probably the most popular Bugzilla variant on - the planet. One of the major benefits of Red Hat Bugzilla is the ability + <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is a fork of Bugzilla 2.8. + One of its major benefits is the ability to work with Oracle, MySQL, and PostGreSQL databases serving as the - back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence has worked very hard to - keep Red Hat Bugzilla up-to-date, and many people prefer the - snappier-looking page layout of Red Hat Bugzilla to the default - Mozilla-standard formatting.</para> + back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat is + active in the Bugzilla community, and we hope to see a reunification + of the fork before too long.</para> <para>URL: <ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/"> @@ -30,38 +29,26 @@ <section id="variant-fenris" xreflabel="Loki Bugzilla, a.k.a. Fenris"> <title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title> - <para>Fenris can be found at - <ulink url="http://fenris.lokigames.com/"> - http://fenris.lokigames.com</ulink> - - . It is a fork from Bugzilla.</para> + <para>Fenris was a fork from Bugzilla made by Loki Games; when + Loki went into receivership, it died. While Loki's other code lives on, + its custodians recommend Bugzilla for future bug-tracker deployments. + </para> </section> <section id="variant-issuezilla" xreflabel="Issuezilla"> <title>Issuezilla</title> - <para>Issuezilla is another fork from Bugzilla, and seems nearly as - popular as the Red Hat Bugzilla fork. Some Issuezilla team members are - regular contributors to the Bugzilla mailing list/newsgroup. Issuezilla - is not the primary focus of bug-tracking at tigris.org, however. Their - Java-based bug-tracker, - <xref linkend="variant-scarab" /> - - , is under heavy development and looks promising!</para> - - <para>URL: - <ulink url="http://issuezilla.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectHome"> - http://issuezilla.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectHome</ulink> - </para> + <para>Issuezilla was another fork from Bugzilla, made by collab.net and + hosted at tigris.org. It is also dead; the primary focus of bug-tracking + at tigris.org is their Java-based bug-tracker, + <xref linkend="variant-scarab"/>.</para> </section> - <section id="variant-scarab" - xreflabel="Scarab, a newfangled Java-based issue tracker"> + <section id="variant-scarab" xreflabel="Scarab"> <title>Scarab</title> - <para>Scarab is a promising new bug-tracking system built using Java - Serlet technology. As of this writing, no source code has been released - as a package, but you can obtain the code from CVS.</para> + <para>Scarab is a new open source bug-tracking system built using Java + Serlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 8.</para> <para>URL: <ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink> @@ -72,32 +59,29 @@ <title>Perforce SCM</title> <para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as - such through the - <quote>jobs</quote> - + such through the <quote>jobs</quote> functionality.</para> - <para> + <para>URL: <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html"> + http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html </ulink> - - http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html</para> + </para> </section> <section id="variant-sourceforge" xreflabel="SourceForge"> <title>SourceForge</title> - <para>SourceForge is more of a way of coordinating geographically - distributed free software and open source projects over the Internet than - strictly a bug tracker, but if you're hunting for bug-tracking for your - open project, it may be just what the software engineer ordered!</para> + <para>SourceForge is a way of coordinating geographically + distributed free software and open source projects over the Internet. + It has a built-in bug tracker, but it's not highly thought of.</para> <para>URL: <ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net"> http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink> </para> </section> -</chapter> +</appendix> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file Local variables: |