The state of the bug tracker

[Mike Frysinger]

On 06 Jul 2015 22:03, Jacob Wahlgren wrote:
> This is the first open source project I've started trying to contribute 
> to. I'm going through the entries in the bug tracker, and submitted my 
> first patch to this list yesterday :). The tracker is quite a mess though.
> 
> My browser could not verify the certificate to start off with. This 
> doesn't make me keen on signing up and posting comments.

now that let's encrypt has gone live, the server has been updated with
real certs

>  From https://bugs.busybox.net/describecomponents.cgi
>  > This is a test product. This ought to be blown away and replaced with 
> real stuff in a finished installation of bugzilla.
> This tells me no one ever finished setting the tracker up, despite the 
> fact that it's been around for at least six years.

it was finished, but that product was left in place for when bugzilla
itself was updated.  this way we had a space to create garbage bugs to
test behavior w/out messing with real ones.

that said, i've polished the description now so it should be less confusing
-mike
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