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General updates. I'm working through the entire guide, tidying it up.
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<section id="aboutthisguide">
<title>Purpose and Scope of this Guide</title>
<para>
- This document was started on September 17, 2000 by Matthew P.
- Barnson after a great deal of procrastination updating the
- Bugzilla FAQ, which I left untouched for nearly half a year.
- After numerous complete rewrites and reformatting, it is the
- document you see today.
- </para>
- <para>
Bugzilla is simply the best piece of bug-tracking software the
world has ever seen. This document is intended to be the
comprehensive guide to the installation, administration,
@@ -43,20 +36,12 @@
digit to indicate the update (&bzg-ver;.1, &bzg-ver;.2, etc.).
Got it? Good.
</para>
- <para>
- I wrote this in response to the enormous demand for decent
- Bugzilla documentation. I have incorporated instructions from
- the Bugzilla README, Frequently Asked Questions, Database Schema
- Document, and various mailing lists to create it. Chances are,
- there are glaring errors in this documentation; please contact
- &bzg-auth-email; to correct them.
- </para>
</section>
<section id="copyright">
<title>Copyright Information</title>
<blockquote>
- <attribution>Copyright (c) 2000-2001 &bzg-auth;</attribution>
+ <attribution>Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Matthew P. Barnson and &bzg-auth;</attribution>
<para>
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
@@ -64,7 +49,7 @@
Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
- Documentation LIcense".
+ Documentation License".
</para>
</blockquote>
<para>
@@ -94,7 +79,7 @@
</para>
<para>
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
- endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". I
+ endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". We
wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux in every situation
where it is appropriate. It is an extremely versatile, stable,
and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
@@ -103,8 +88,7 @@
<para>
You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system
before installing Bugzilla and at regular intervals thereafter.
- Heaven knows it's saved my bacon time after time; if you
- implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!
+ If you implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!
</para>
<para>
Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to
@@ -138,12 +122,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://www.trilobyte.net/barnsons/">TriloBYTE</ulink>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/">Mozilla.org</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/">bugzilla.org</ulink>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -157,7 +136,7 @@
<para>
The latest version of this document can be checked out via CVS.
Please follow the instructions available at <ulink
- url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">the Mozilla CVS page</ulink>, and check out the mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/ branch.
+ url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">the Mozilla CVS page</ulink>, and check out the <filename>mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/</filename> branch.
</para>
</section>
@@ -170,6 +149,10 @@
contribution to the Bugzilla community:
</para>
<para>
+ <ulink url="mailto://mbarnson@sisna.com">Matthew P. Barnson</ulink>
+ for pulling together the Bugzilla Guide and shepherding it to 2.14.
+ </para>
+ <para>
<ulink url="mailto://terry@mozilla.org">Terry Weissman</ulink>
for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the
README upon which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
@@ -194,27 +177,13 @@
Last but not least, all the members of the <ulink
url="news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools"> netscape.public.mozilla.webtools</ulink> newsgroup. Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches, this could never have happened.
</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="contributors">
-<title>Contributors</title>
<para>
- Thanks go to these people for significant contributions to this
- documentation (in no particular order):
+ Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions
+ to this documentation (in no particular order):
</para>
<para>
- Andrew Pearson, Spencer Smith, Eric Hanson, Kevin Brannen, Ron
- Teitelbaum, Jacob Steenhagen, Joe Robins
- </para>
- </section>
- <section id="feedback">
- <title>Feedback</title>
- <para>
- I welcome feedback on this document. Without your submissions
- and input, this Guide cannot continue to exist. Please mail
- additions, comments, criticisms, etc. to
- <email>barnboy@trilobyte.net</email>. Please send flames to
- <email>devnull@localhost</email>
+ Zach Liption, Andrew Pearson, Spencer Smith, Eric Hanson, Kevin Brannen,
+ Ron Teitelbaum, Jacob Steenhagen, Joe Robins.
</para>
</section>
@@ -226,7 +195,7 @@
translate this Guide, please notify the members of the
mozilla-webtools mailing list at
<email>mozilla-webtools@mozilla.org</email>, and arrange with
- Matt Barnson to check it into CVS.
+ &bzg-auth; to check it into CVS.
</para>
</section>