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It has been proposed to move the Bugzilla source from bzr.mozilla.org to git.mozilla.org. | It has been proposed to move the Bugzilla source from bzr.mozilla.org to git.mozilla.org with a read-only mirror on GitHub. | ||
== Rationale == | |||
There's no single killer reason to move to git; however, there are a handful of benefits: | |||
* git is pretty much the de facto standard for VCSs these days. This means many people are familiar with it and like its flexibility. | |||
* On the other side, Bazaar is almost dead. There are maybe 2-3 commits to trunk every month. The time to fix bugs in Bazaar also seems to be quite long, generally. | |||
* GitHub is extremely popular, and for good reason, since it's a very powerful system. Exposure via GitHub could mean increased contributions (whether we can keep up with them or not is, of course, another question). | |||
* Mozilla would very much like to retire Tinderbox, since Bugzilla is the only system still using it. Moving to GitHub means we could use travis-ci, which is really nice. | |||
* Mozilla would also very much like to retire the Bazaar server, which is used only for Bugzilla. | |||