Bugzilla in Python? Yes, Please.

May 30th, 2007 § 4 comments

Via var­i­ous places, I’ve noted that there has been dis­cus­sion about the pos­si­bil­ity of imple­ment­ing Bugzilla in alter­na­tive lan­guages (:cough:python:cough:). I doubt that the core bugzilla team would pull up their roots and really switch but a python-version of bugzilla (trac doesn’t count) in Django would be really, really hot.

I linked to the main wiki page up top — but here’s a link to the dis­cus­sion page.

The pri­mary page lists come com­mon (albeit silly for the most part) “cons” that python is viewed as hav­ing. I think the dis­cus­sion page is more inter­est­ing per­son­ally, but in either case — who is up for doing an imple­men­ta­tion anyway?

I would shave every hair off my body and paint myself blue for a Bugzilla/Testopia imple­men­ta­tion in Django it’s been on my “list of things to do one day” ever since I started pok­ing at Django a year or so ago.

  • Cowmix

    No kid­ding..

    I did an imple­men­ta­tion of Bugzilla a few years ago and I had to make a few modifications..

    Cripe.. I almost shot myself.

    Hav­ing a ver­sion in Python would be sim­ply great.

  • Ryan

    http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=222

    A “code review” facil­ity writ­ten in Python on Django.

  • http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/ Richard Jones

    Just imple­ment a Bugzilla schema for Roundup :)

  • http://www.jessenoller.com jesse

    @Cowmix: I’ve used bugzilla for some time now — hack­ing the code is a night­mare, but I still love it. The interface/etc is fantastic.

    @Ryan: Holy crap! It even sup­ports per­force! Let me get back to you.

    @Richard: Oh that’s just mean :)

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