Is Bugzilla dying?

Max made those comments a long time ago (it's been several months), and there's been a lot of additional discussion in many places other than his blog post since then. Bugzilla is by no means dying, and in fact has seen a lot more active development since he made that post, whether it's Perl or not. No rewrite is planned, as it would be too much work and not worth the effort in lost development time.