Why not use Bugzilla exclusively and get rid of Bugtraq?
A. Our bug reports might contain confidential data (e.g. customer information, crash dumps that contain proprietary information, etc.), and thus can’t be in the open. The second reason is that many of Sun’s customer support systems are based on Bugtraq, and would have to be reimplemented just for our organization. Q. For Sun developers, how does this affect Sun’s internal bug tracking? Does this mean I’ll have to watch two bug tracking databases? Why not one? And what about Sun’s internal tools for tracking escalations, customer calls, etc.? How are they going to be tied into this system? All good questions, and the simple answer is, “We’re working on it. We don’t know…yet.” We are still gaining experience with Bugzilla and how well it will play with our existing tracking systems. These questions will be addressed as latter parts of the system are added. It is anticipated that there will be a one-way data bridge between the Bugzilla and Bugtraq systems. When a bug report is created i
