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by blikdak 1829 days ago
Is this for an Open Source or other project? Not that I think there's any distinction at Alphabet anymore of course.
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This application is the internal tool called 'Buganizer' that everyone at Alphabet use to file bugs. It's exposed externally in a limited way that allows people to file bugs for Google products (such as Android), but generally, not much else.
Here's an interesting article that has more details about it: How I hacked Google’s bug tracking system itself for $15,600 in bounties by Alex Birsan https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/messing-with-the-google-bu...
I know this is at least true for AOSP. I tried looking for/filing a bug with AOSP, and I wasn't even allowed to look for similar bugs unless I was signed in.

I get requiring to sign in to file a bug, but I was a lot less interested in even trying to when the entire thing was walled off.

The listed link goes to a Android bug on the "Android Public Tracker".