Red Hat Bugzilla is probably the most popular Bugzilla variant, aside from Mozilla Bugzilla, - on the planet. - One of the major benefits of Red Hat Bugzilla is the ability to work with Oracle as a - database, as well as MySQL. - Here's what Dave Lawrence had to say about the status of Red Hat Bugzilla, -
-Hello. I apologize that I am getting back to you so late. It has been difficult to keep
-up with email this past week. I have checked out your updated documentation and I will
-have to say very good work. A few notes and additions as follows.
-
-(ed: from the FAQ)
->For the record, we are not using any template type implementation for the cosmetic changes
->maded to Bugzilla. It is just alot of html changes in the code itself. I admit I may have
->gotten a little carried away with it but the corporate types asked for a more standardized
->interface to match up with other projects relating to Red Hat web sites. A lot of other web
->based internal tools I am working on also look like Bugzilla.
-
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-This should probably be changed since we are now in fact using Text::Template for most
-of the html rendering. You actually state this later in your numbered list.
-
-Also number 6 contradicts number 8 where number 6 would be the most up to date status
-on the Oracle port.
-
-Additional Information:
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-1. Comments are now stored in varchar fields of 4k in size each. If the comment is more
-than 4k it is broken up into chunks and given a sort number so each comment can be re
-assembled in the correct order. This was done because originally I was storing the comments
-in a long datatype which unfortunately cannot be indexed or joined with another table. This
-cause the search of text within the long description to be disabled for a long time. That
-is now working and is nto showing any noticeble performance hit that I can tell.
-
-2. Work is being started on internationalizing the Bugzilla source we have to allow our
-Japanese customers to enter bug reports into a single bugzilla system. This will probably
-be done by using the nvarchar data types supported by Oracle which allows storage of
-double byte characters and also the use of the Accept-Language in the http header for
-detection by Bugilla of which language to render.
-
-3. Of course even more cosmetic changes. It is difficult to keep up with the ever
-changing faces of www.redhat.com.
-
-4. Some convenience enhancements in the administration utilities. And more integration
-with other internal/external Red Hat web sites.
-
-I hope this information may prove helpful for your documentation. Please contact
-me if you have any more question or I can do anything else.
-
-Regards
-