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Comment Bugzilla will be adding inter-tracker support (Score 1) 174

by Avatraxiom on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @06:12PM (#26645595) Attached to: How To Track the Bug-Trackers?

Bugzilla 3.4 will have rudimentary support for saying that a bug is related to a bug in another bug-tracker. Currently the development version allows you to input Bugzilla and Launchpad bugs, and we'll probably allow Trac and Jira in some future version, too.

Future versions will also automatically update the other bug tracker, if possible, to let them know that you've set a relationship to their bug.

The relevant bug for tracking development on this feature is here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=bz-seealso

-Max

Comment Re:The 2.5 I've used (Score 1) 174

by Avatraxiom on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @06:09PM (#26645557) Attached to: How To Track the Bug-Trackers?

Bugzilla does have time-tracking, you just have to set the timetrackinggroup parameter. Products can be hidden by setting them as Mandatory/Mandatory for a group that nobody is in. You can also close them to entry and they won't appear on the New Bug page. -Max

Comment Re:What were they using before... (Score 1) 83

by Avatraxiom on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @03:10AM (#25798541) Attached to: NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking

To clarify, this comment was more me attempting to be amusing than an actual factual statement. I suspect there were actually many advanced systems in use and I really actually have no idea what systems were being used. -Max

Comment Re:It could have saved a lot of lives, actually (Score 1) 83

by Avatraxiom on Monday November 17, 2008 @03:33PM (#25790201) Attached to: NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking

I just wanted to say that the above comment is actually my opinion and not a representation of any government organization or employee, and I am not an government employee. There were existing PRACA systems before the one we made. One of the other responders is correct that there are many other mitigating forces in mishaps, and that my statement may not be correct. -Max

Comment Re:What were they using before... (Score 3, Interesting) 83

by Avatraxiom on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:09PM (#25778639) Attached to: NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking

They were using something like 40 different systems--a different one for practically each department and contractor at NASA. Some of them were pretty much using the technological equivalent of post-it notes next to their screens, and I've been told that some were keeping track of defects using paper files. -Max

Comment It could have saved a lot of lives, actually (Score 5, Interesting) 83

by Avatraxiom on Sunday November 16, 2008 @02:09PM (#25778629) Attached to: NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking

My company (Everything Solved), made PRACA along with NASA, and in one of the first meetings, a researcher at Ames told me that if a system like PRACA had always existed at NASA, then every major mishap in NASA's history could have been avoided. -Max

Comment Jerks... (Score 3, Funny) 186

by stendec on Monday April 14, 2008 @02:35AM (#23060162) Attached to: Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables

The cable was damaged because of jerks and force of the ship, the official said.

JERKS!!!!

'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium 139

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @09:40AM from the absolutely-nothing-about-this-sounds-james-bondian dept.

Wowsers writes us with a story from The Guardian about FBI interest in connectivity between its own database resources and those abroad. It's spearheading a program labeled 'Server in the Sky', meant to coordinate the police forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to better fight international crime/terrorist groups. The group is calling itself the International Information Consortium. "Britain's National Policing Improvement Agency has been the lead body for the FBI project because it is responsible for IDENT1, the UK database holding 7m sets of fingerprints and other biometric details used by police forces to search for matches from scenes of crimes. Many of the prints are either from a person with no criminal record, or have yet to be matched to a named individual. IDENT1 was built by the computer technology arm of the US defence company Northrop Grumman. In future it is expected to hold palm prints, facial images and video sequences."

Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures 739

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 14, 2008 @02:47PM from the like-a-child-shouting-MINE dept.

Mike Rogers writes "In a move that can only be described as 'Copyright Insanity', Ford Motor Company now claims that they hold the rights to any image of a Ford vehicle, even if it's a picture you took of your own car. The Black Mustang Club wanted to put together a calendar featuring member's cars and print it through CafePress, but an attorney from Ford nixed the project, stating that the calendar pics and 'anything with one of (member's) cars in it infringes on Ford's trademarks which include the use of images of their vehicles.' Does Ford have the right to prevent you from printing images of a car you own?"

Net Neutrality Summit 79

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 14, 2008 @01:21PM from the climb-the-mountain dept.

Castar writes "BoingBoing has a post about an upcoming summit in San Francisco about the issue of Net Neutrality. The EFF and speakers on both sides of the issue are gathering to debate and spread awareness of Network Neutrality, which is an increasingly important topic. The FCC, of course, might have the final word."

10 Strange Computer Keyboards 181

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 14, 2008 @10:30AM from the well-not-that-strange dept.

DirectedImpact noted an amusing little compilation of 10 strange keyboards. Some of them you've probably seen before (the laser keyboard, the optimus OLED keyboard) and others are quite real (I actually had one of those split keyboards for awhile) and others are pretty out there: like the keyboard built into the lacy doily placemat thingee.

Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge 515

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 13, 2008 @04:56PM from the stepping-away-from-total-surveillance dept.

mmuch writes "In the wake of the recent copyright debate in Swedish mainstream media, the P2P Consortium has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. He comments on the mainstream politicians starting to understand the issues, the interplay between strict copyright enforcement and mass surveillance, and the chances for global copyright reform." Some choice Falkvinge quotes: "What was remarkable was that this was the point where the enemy — forces that want to lock down culture and knowledge at the cost of total surveillance — realized they were under a serious attack... for the first time, we saw everything they could bring to the battle. And it was... nothing. Not even a fizzle. All they can say is 'thief, we have our rights, we want our rights, nothing must change, we want more money, thief, thief, thief'... Whereas we are talking about scarcity vs. abundance, monopolies, the nature of property, 500-year historical perspectives on culture and knowledge, incentive structures, economic theory, disruptive technologies, etc. The difference in intellectual levels between the sides is astounding... When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around."

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