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Bugzilla will be DOWN Sat 9 April 17.00-20.00 UTC

Submitted by bkor on Tue, 2005-04-05 16:05. Bugs

Bugzilla.mozilla.org announced a contest for when they'd reach bug number 300.000. Such a bug number for a product that just reached 1.0 is not right. As GNOME is at 2.10, GNOME should be using bug numbers in the 300.000 range well before Mozilla. We (bugzilla.gnome.org bugmasters) have concluded this needs to be resolved. This requires bugzilla.gnome.org to be down Saturday 9 April from 17.00 - 20.00 UTC. The downtime is needed to make the bug numbers start from 300.000.

We believe this change proves once more GNOME's dedication to giving users and developers the ultimate level of control over their desktops, their software, and their data.

While increasing of the bug number we will also perform some other
tasks, such as:

Import some 40.000 bugs from bugzilla.Ximian.com
Change to another database server

Ximian bug importing
The bugs of the following products will be moved to bugzilla.gnome.org:
Evolution, Evolution-Data-Server, evolution-sharp, GtkHtml, GAL, Soup, Connector

Because of some free space in the 200.000 range, we will be dedicating that range to Ximian bugs. We will manually assign each Ximian bug a GNOME bug number. This using the formula:

ximian_bug_number + 200.000 = gnome_bug_number

This means that Ximian bug 70014 can be found as bug 270014 on bugzilla.gnome.org. The ximian bug will automatically redirect to the gnome one.

Accounts at Ximian used on a product mentioned above will be re-created on bugzilla.gnome.org (same password). Using means: reported, commented, made a change, or cc'ed. Persons who resolved (fixed, duplicate, ...) a bug at Ximian and were not the reporter will get canconfirm+editbugs permissions. This only for bugs in the products mentioned before. Accounts that already existed at b.g.o will keep their existing settings and permissions.

As a result of the import the following persons will no longer be part of the top 15 bug closers of all time:

Pawel Salek (1948 bugs)
John Fleck (1888 bugs)
Bastien Nocera (1794 bugs)

We suggest these persons spend even less time doing non-Bugzilla work.

Change database server
We will be switching bugzilla.gnome.org's database server. The old one runs MySQL 3.23; the new one 4.1. The new database server also has a nicer hostname.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Isn't artificially increasing the bug number cheating?
A: Yes.

Q: What can I do while Bugzilla is down?
A: Regularly ask for status updates at irc://irc.gnome.org/#bugs

Q: Doesn't bugzilla.mozilla.org hold other products besides Firefox?
A: Yeah right.

Q: I have some other question?
A: Mail me or bugmaster@gnome.org privately.

Very funny announcement. Than by Anonymous George

Hahaha.. way to go guys! I co

Submitted by Twigman on Wed, 2005-04-06 20:15.

Hahaha.. way to go guys! I couldn't believe it when I read this, it sounds too much like something I would do.. You guys have my Geek seal of approval.

Also.. sounds good about merging the ximian bugzilla database ...

weird

Submitted by cg0def on Wed, 2005-04-06 13:28.

Is it just me or has the Gnome team compleately lost their mind? Who cares if the mozilla team is bragging about their bug numbers. After all last I checked good code does not have bugs in it so what is the big deal? Oh yeah and please these are just some damn numbers that mean nothing. Unless you really really have nothing better to devote time to I suggest that next time a dumb idea like a d**k measuring contest comes to your minds just move on. Plus changing the numbers for bugs is hardly the best way to organize the reports.

How about focusing on fixing those bugs instead of playing arround with the numbers guys? It's not even fun!

Time to learn what humor means

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-04-06 14:01.

Please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

The purpose of the downtime is to move bugs in Evolution and related products from bugzilla.ximian.com to bugzilla.gnome.org. Everything else is just a side-effect (and note that bug numbers of existing Gnome bugs are not changing, just the bug numbers in Ximian bugzilla (since they would conflict with the Gnome bug numbers) and the number at which new bug reports will start counting from once the downtime is over). Yes, the announcement pretends that the side-effects are the main purpose; given the fact that it is obvious that those side-effects are unimportant combined with the fact that this is being widely announced, this qualifies as being funny. Laugh.

Hehe.. I agree.. it is funny,

Submitted by Twigman on Wed, 2005-04-06 20:17.

Hehe.. I agree.. it is funny, and I laughed (a very snorty nerdy high pitched laugh).

What the Fu**?

Submitted by foo on Wed, 2005-04-06 10:55.

April 1st was last week guys. The story is beyond strange.

You got it all wrong

Submitted by bkor on Wed, 2005-04-06 12:13.

April 1st is the day everyone tries to make a fool out of me. The rest of the year is when you should watch out.

Misunderstanding

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-04-06 11:25.

Apparently there's something in Olav's wording that those who are unfamiliar with the bugsquad misinterpret (you aren't the first one). I'm not sure what that is, as I've been watching the work on doing the Ximian bug import for quite a while. Anyway, perhaps this email to d-d-l will clear things up for you and show how this was just a simple announcement written in a clever, humorous way.