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+<!-- <!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" > -->
+<glossary id="glossary">
+ <glossdiv>
+ <title>0-9, high ascii</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-htaccess">
+ <glossterm>.htaccess</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Apache web server, and other NCSA-compliant web servers,
+ observe the convention of using files in directories called
+ <filename>.htaccess</filename>
+
+ to restrict access to certain files. In Bugzilla, they are used
+ to keep secret files which would otherwise
+ compromise your installation - e.g. the
+ <filename>localconfig</filename>
+ file contains the password to your database.
+ curious.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-a">
+ <title>A</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-apache">
+ <glossterm>Apache</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>In this context, Apache is the web server most commonly used
+ for serving up Bugzilla
+ pages. Contrary to popular belief, the apache web server has nothing
+ to do with the ancient and noble Native American tribe, but instead
+ derived its name from the fact that it was
+ <quote>a patchy</quote>
+ version of the original
+ <acronym>NCSA</acronym>
+ world-wide-web server.</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>Useful Directives when configuring Bugzilla</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#addhandler">AddHandler</ulink></computeroutput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Tell Apache that it's OK to run CGI scripts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</ulink></computeroutput></term>
+ <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#options">Options</ulink></computeroutput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>These directives are used to tell Apache many things about
+ the directory they apply to. For Bugzilla's purposes, we need
+ them to allow script execution and <filename>.htaccess</filename>
+ overrides.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex">DirectoryIndex</ulink></computeroutput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used to tell Apache what files are indexes. If you can
+ not add <filename>index.cgi</filename> to the list of valid files,
+ you'll need to set <computeroutput>$index_html</computeroutput> to
+ 1 in <filename>localconfig</filename> so
+ <command>./checksetup.pl</command> will create an
+ <filename>index.html</filename> that redirects to
+ <filename>index.cgi</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><computeroutput><ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource">ScriptInterpreterSource</ulink></computeroutput></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Used when running Apache on windows so the shebang line
+ doesn't have to be changed in every Bugzilla script.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>For more information about how to configure Apache for Bugzilla,
+ see <xref linkend="http-apache"/>.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-b">
+ <title>B</title>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Bug</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A
+ <quote>bug</quote>
+
+ in Bugzilla refers to an issue entered into the database which has an
+ associated number, assignments, comments, etc. Some also refer to a
+ <quote>tickets</quote>
+ or
+ <quote>issues</quote>;
+ in the context of Bugzilla, they are synonymous.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Bug Number</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Each Bugzilla bug is assigned a number that uniquely identifies
+ that bug. The bug associated with a bug number can be pulled up via a
+ query, or easily from the very front page by typing the number in the
+ "Find" box.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-bugzilla">
+ <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Bugzilla is the world-leading free software bug tracking system.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-c">
+ <title>C</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-cgi">
+ <glossterm>Common Gateway Interface</glossterm>
+ <acronym>CGI</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para><acronym>CGI</acronym> is an acronym for Common Gateway Interface. This is
+ a standard for interfacing an external application with a web server. Bugzilla
+ is an example of a <acronym>CGI</acronym> application.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-component">
+ <glossterm>Component</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A Component is a subsection of a Product. It should be a narrow
+ category, tailored to your organization. All Products must contain at
+ least one Component (and, as a matter of fact, creating a Product
+ with no Components will create an error in Bugzilla).</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-cpan">
+ <glossterm>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</glossterm>
+ <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
+
+ <!-- TODO: Rewrite def for CPAN -->
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>CPAN</acronym>
+
+ stands for the
+ <quote>Comprehensive Perl Archive Network</quote>.
+ CPAN maintains a large number of extremely useful
+ <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
+ modules - encapsulated chunks of code for performing a
+ particular task.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-contrib">
+ <glossterm><filename class="directory">contrib</filename></glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory is
+ a location to put scripts that have been contributed to Bugzilla but
+ are not a part of the official distribution. These scripts are written
+ by third parties and may be in languages other than perl. For those
+ that are in perl, there may be additional modules or other requirements
+ than those of the official distribution.
+ <note>
+ <para>Scripts in the <filename class="directory">contrib</filename>
+ directory are not officially supported by the Bugzilla team and may
+ break in between versions.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-d">
+ <title>D</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-daemon">
+ <glossterm>daemon</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A daemon is a computer program which runs in the background. In
+ general, most daemons are started at boot time via System V init
+ scripts, or through RC scripts on BSD-based systems.
+ <glossterm>mysqld</glossterm>,
+ the MySQL server, and
+ <glossterm>apache</glossterm>,
+ a web server, are generally run as daemons.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-dos">
+ <glossterm>DOS Attack</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A DOS, or Denial of Service attack, is when a user attempts to
+ deny access to a web server by repeatedly accessing a page or sending
+ malformed requests to a webserver. A D-DOS, or
+ Distributed Denial of Service attack, is when these requests come
+ from multiple sources at the same time. Unfortunately, these are much
+ more difficult to defend against.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-g">
+ <title>G</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-groups">
+ <glossterm>Groups</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>The word
+ <quote>Groups</quote>
+
+ has a very special meaning to Bugzilla. Bugzilla's main security
+ mechanism comes by placing users in groups, and assigning those
+ groups certain privileges to view bugs in particular
+ <glossterm>Products</glossterm>
+ in the
+ <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
+ database.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-j">
+ <title>J</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-javascript">
+ <glossterm>JavaScript</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>JavaScript is cool, we should talk about it.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-m">
+ <title>M</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-mta">
+ <glossterm>Message Transport Agent</glossterm>
+ <acronym>MTA</acronym>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A Message Transport Agent is used to control the flow of email on a system.
+ The <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Send/lib/Email/Send.pm">Email::Send</ulink>
+ Perl module, which Bugzilla uses to send email, can be configured to
+ use many different underlying implementations for actually sending the
+ mail using the <option>mail_delivery_method</option> parameter.
+ Implementations other than <literal>sendmail</literal> require that the
+ <option>sendmailnow</option> param be set to <literal>on</literal>.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-mysql">
+ <glossterm>MySQL</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>MySQL is currently the required
+ <glossterm linkend="gloss-rdbms">RDBMS</glossterm> for Bugzilla. MySQL
+ can be downloaded from <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com"/>. While you
+ should familiarize yourself with all of the documentation, some high
+ points are:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Backup.html">Backup</ulink></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Methods for backing up your Bugzilla database.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Option_files.html">Option Files</ulink></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Information about how to configure MySQL using
+ <filename>my.cnf</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privilege_system.html">Privilege System</ulink></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Much more detailed information about the suggestions in
+ <xref linkend="security-mysql"/>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-p">
+ <title>P</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-ppm">
+ <glossterm>Perl Package Manager</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PPM</acronym>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para><ulink url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/"/>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm id="gloss-product">Product</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A Product is a broad category of types of bugs, normally
+ representing a single piece of software or entity. In general,
+ there are several Components to a Product. A Product may define a
+ group (used for security) for all bugs entered into
+ its Components.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>First written by Larry Wall, Perl is a remarkable program
+ language. It has the benefits of the flexibility of an interpreted
+ scripting language (such as shell script), combined with the speed
+ and power of a compiled language, such as C.
+ <glossterm>Bugzilla</glossterm>
+
+ is maintained in Perl.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-q">
+ <title>Q</title>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>QA</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <quote>QA</quote>,
+ <quote>Q/A</quote>, and
+ <quote>Q.A.</quote>
+ are short for
+ <quote>Quality Assurance</quote>.
+ In most large software development organizations, there is a team
+ devoted to ensuring the product meets minimum standards before
+ shipping. This team will also generally want to track the progress of
+ bugs over their life cycle, thus the need for the
+ <quote>QA Contact</quote>
+
+ field in a bug.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-r">
+ <title>R</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-rdbms">
+ <glossterm>Relational DataBase Management System</glossterm>
+ <acronym>RDBMS</acronym>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A relational database management system is a database system
+ that stores information in tables that are related to each other.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-regexp">
+ <glossterm>Regular Expression</glossterm>
+ <acronym>regexp</acronym>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>A regular expression is an expression used for pattern matching.
+ <ulink url="http://perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlre.html#Regular-Expressions">Documentation</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-s">
+ <title>S</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-service">
+ <glossterm>Service</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>In Windows NT environment, a boot-time background application
+ is referred to as a service. These are generally managed through the
+ control panel while logged in as an account with
+ <quote>Administrator</quote> level capabilities. For more
+ information, consult your Windows manual or the MSKB.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>
+ <acronym>SGML</acronym>
+ </glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ <acronym>SGML</acronym>
+
+ stands for
+ <quote>Standard Generalized Markup Language</quote>.
+ Created in the 1980's to provide an extensible means to maintain
+ documentation based upon content instead of presentation,
+ <acronym>SGML</acronym>
+
+ has withstood the test of time as a robust, powerful language.
+ <glossterm>
+ <acronym>XML</acronym>
+ </glossterm>
+
+ is the
+ <quote>baby brother</quote>
+
+ of SGML; any valid
+ <acronym>XML</acronym>
+
+ document it, by definition, a valid
+ <acronym>SGML</acronym>
+
+ document. The document you are reading is written and maintained in
+ <acronym>SGML</acronym>,
+ and is also valid
+ <acronym>XML</acronym>
+
+ if you modify the Document Type Definition.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-t">
+ <title>T</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-target-milestone" xreflabel="Target Milestone">
+ <glossterm>Target Milestone</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>Target Milestones are Product goals. They are configurable on a
+ per-Product basis. Most software development houses have a concept of
+
+ <quote>milestones</quote>
+
+ where the people funding a project expect certain functionality on
+ certain dates. Bugzilla facilitates meeting these milestones by
+ giving you the ability to declare by which milestone a bug will be
+ fixed, or an enhancement will be implemented.</para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-tcl">
+ <glossterm>Tool Command Language</glossterm>
+ <acronym>TCL</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>TCL is an open source scripting language available for Windows,
+ Macintosh, and Unix based systems. Bugzilla 1.0 was written in TCL but
+ never released. The first release of Bugzilla was 2.0, which was when
+ it was ported to perl.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+
+ <glossdiv id="gloss-z">
+ <title>Z</title>
+
+ <glossentry id="gloss-zarro">
+ <glossterm>Zarro Boogs Found</glossterm>
+
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>This is just a goofy way of saying that there were no bugs
+ found matching your query. When asked to explain this message,
+ Terry had the following to say:
+ </para>
+
+ <blockquote>
+ <attribution>Terry Weissman</attribution>
+ <para>I've been asked to explain this ... way back when, when
+ Netscape released version 4.0 of its browser, we had a release
+ party. Naturally, there had been a big push to try and fix every
+ known bug before the release. Naturally, that hadn't actually
+ happened. (This is not unique to Netscape or to 4.0; the same thing
+ has happened with every software project I've ever seen.) Anyway,
+ at the release party, T-shirts were handed out that said something
+ like "Netscape 4.0: Zarro Boogs". Just like the software, the
+ T-shirt had no known bugs. Uh-huh.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>So, when you query for a list of bugs, and it gets no results,
+ you can think of this as a friendly reminder. Of *course* there are
+ bugs matching your query, they just aren't in the bugsystem yet...
+ </para>
+ </blockquote>
+
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ </glossdiv>
+</glossary>
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