On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:06:49PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
There is one thing I worry about here - and maybe we need to take
this
up internally within Red Hat, but whatever - I strongly believe that
*at a minimum*, going to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=NNN should show you the
report, comments, and attachments for bug NNN. *Forever*. RH Bugzilla
is effectively a huge, 20-year long knowledge base at this point.
Probably hundreds of thousands of places on the internet link to RH
bugs. Taking that offline would be effectively an act of vandalism.
It may not need to keep actually working as a dynamic web app if we do
retire BZ - we could reduce it to a server that just serves up static
snapshots of the content - but I'd really hate to see the content lost.
Yeah, agreed. There's a lot of useful history!
For what it's worth, Wayback Machine links like
https://web.archive.org/web/20120719062752/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sh...
seem to generally work. I wonder if we could officially "donate" it all to
them.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader