Shutting down old ClamAV Bugzilla

ClamAV will shut down the old ClamAV Bugzilla server in July.  

Users who have any outstanding Bugzilla reports should move them to GitHub Issues as soon as possible.

We disabled new tickets in Bugzilla in December 2021 in favor of GitHub Issues for all new ClamAV bug reports and a new process for reporting vulnerabilities as defined by a new security policy. As it has now been 18 months since the switch to GitHub Issues, we have decided to shut down our old Bugzilla.  

We plan to take the Bugzilla server off the internet sometime after July 1 and keep it as an internal reference for our development team. It will no longer be accessible to the public. 

ClamAV Bugzilla new ticket creation will redirect to GitHub Issues

In early 2021, we made a decision to switch to using GitHub directly. Before then, our primary Git repository was sequestered to the Cisco corporate network. The public GitHub repository was just a mirror. That made it tougher for us to connect to and work with contributors from the ClamAV community. Our daily routines drew our attention away from GitHub.

At the same time, we also settled on a plan for how we could test using GitHub Issues for ClamAV bug reports. Initially, this would supplement our aging Bugzilla server. While Bugzilla requires users to make an account on our server, enabling GitHub Issues would open up bug reporting to the wider GitHub community that already has an account.

Since enabling GitHub Issues at the start of June, we have found that using GitHub Issues has been a very positive experience. At this point, most of our reports come in through GitHub Issues. With the aid of issue templates, the quality of bug reports coming through GitHub Issues has also been of a higher caliber than those coming through Bugzilla. With users following guidance in the template, the bug reports are generally easier to triage and respond to intelligently. 

All that being said, we will disable Bugzilla ticket creation so we can focus all new bug reports towards GitHub Issues. Effective immediately, the new ticket creation form on bugzilla.clamav.net will redirect users to the new issue creation page on our primary ClamAV repository on GitHub.com.

Existing open tickets on Bugzilla will remain open for now, and the Bugzilla server is expected to remain available through 2022 as we complete this transition. 

If you have an open ticket on Bugzilla and would like to help migrate it to GitHub Issues, we would appreciate the help. If you choose to migrate any tickets from Bugzilla to GitHub Issues, please add references in each ticket and close the original Bugzilla ticket(s) to assist our team with the ticket queue maintenance.

Thank you!

Micah

Bugzilla Maintenance tomorrow Feb 14th

Notice to all ClamAV users, our bugzilla instance at bugzilla.clamav.net will be experiencing some downtime tomorrow at 9am EST, February 14th, 2019, for about 90 minutes.  We are moving to the data to a new machine at that time.