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On (Mozilla's) bugzilla, feature requests (in local jargon, "RFE", request for enhancement) were filed on the same bug tracker and were indexed as bugs, too, lo
by mook 6y ago
On (Mozilla's) bugzilla, feature requests (in local jargon, "RFE", request for enhancement) were filed on the same bug tracker and were indexed as bugs, too, long before GitHub existed.
Of course, that led to the same problems, and they eventually allowed customizing the term "bug" on your own bugzilla installations.
- skissane 6y agoI remember when I used to work for Oracle, and Oracle's internal home-grown bugtracker (BugDB) had both bugs and enhancement requests logged in it going back to the 1980s. (I actually tried to find the oldest record... the oldest one I could find was from something like 1984 or 1985, if I remember right.) And I know the PMs actually went through the enhancement requests the customers logged (I think it was once per a release cycle), and evaluated whether any of them were worthwhile to implement or not. So, in proprietary software, using a bug tracker to track feature requests is a lot older than Mozilla/Bugzilla.