Over the next few months, I will be working on improving
bugzilla.mozilla.org to better meet the needs of the Mozilla development
community.[0] I am therefore gathering 'requirements' - that is to say,
asking people's opinion about which possible improvements would be most
useful. This newsgroup post and an associated blogpost pointing here are
a start; please let me know if there are other forums I could usefully
ask in.

(I apologise if the reasonably wide crossposting irritates anyone. It
seems that mozilla.announce has morphed into something which
non-community-members subscribe to for notification about updates to
Firefox and Thunderbird, so I suspect it's no longer appropriate for
this sort of message. Perhaps we need a mozilla.dev.announce.)

Please say what the change you are requesting is, and why making it
would improve your life. References to previous discussions and bug
numbers would help.

Feel free to suggest configuration changes as well as code changes, of
sizes both big and small. I anticipate working on maybe 1 or 2 larger
things, but I hope to also be able to fix some small-but-annoying things
along the way. I can't promise that any particular change will be worked
on, even if supported very vocally. There are a number of factors which
will affect the decision, including our desire to help the Bugzilla
development community achieve its goals - both technical and social.

I can't promise a timeframe by which the changes will be available. My
aim is, for non-b.m.o.-specific changes, to get them into the Bugzilla
trunk and have them flow down to b.m.o. from there. And so it is
dependent on Bugzilla release schedules and b.m.o. upgrades, which are
themselves dependent on our release cycles and on IT time.

Gerv

[0] See my full SOW here:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2009/06/new_sow.html