Red Hat recently announced the translation of the development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Centers Stream to a new error tracking system. This new system, called issues.redhat.com, is built on the proprietary platform Jira developed by Atlassian. Previously, Red Hat used its own edition of the free Bugzilla error tracking platform. Similar separate editions of Bugzilla are also used by projects such as Mozilla and SUSE. Red Hat has already switched to using the new system for receiving new errors in RHEL 6-9, and plans to transfer error messages from Bugzilla to Jira over the next few weeks. However, the Fedora project will continue to use Bugzilla, despite the implementation of Jira in RHEL and Centos Stream.
This migration to Jira follows the previous transfer of the OpenShift project to Jira. The reason for the migration is to consolidate project management in one place and to use Jira as a single platform for managing all aspects of development. The use of Jira will also expand the possibilities for organizing collaborative work and increase flexibility in providing access to partners and the community in different stages of the development process. Some advantages of Jira include expanded visualization capabilities, intuitive hierarchy control, and the presence of REST API.
In other news, the Bugzilla project recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. As part of the celebration, Bugzilla announced the creation of an independent non-profit corporation called Zarro Boogs Corporation. This corporation will oversee the development, administration of intellectual property, and the reception of donations for Bugzilla. Similar to MZLA Technologies Corporation, which oversees the development of the Thunderbird postal client, Zarro Boogs Corporation is completely independent and not tied to Mozilla Foundation. Bugzilla is also set to release Bugzilla 5.9.1 on September 15, which is presented as the first test allowance of the radically redesigned Bugzilla 6 branch.