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diff --git a/docs/en/xml/using.xml b/docs/en/xml/using.xml index d6c14dbd1..da7dc0363 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/using.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/using.xml @@ -261,28 +261,6 @@ </orderedlist> </section> - <section id="lifecycle"> - <title>Life Cycle of a Bug</title> - - <para> - The life cycle, also known as work flow, of a bug is currently hardcoded - into Bugzilla. <xref linkend="lifecycle-image"/> contains a graphical - repsentation of this life cycle. If you wish to customize this image for - your site, the <ulink url="../images/bzLifecycle.xml">diagram file</ulink> - is available in <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia">Dia's</ulink> - native XML format. - </para> - - <figure id="lifecycle-image"> - <title>Lifecycle of a Bugzilla Bug</title> - <mediaobject> - <imageobject> - <imagedata fileref="../images/bzLifecycle.png" scale="66" /> - </imageobject> - </mediaobject> - </figure> - </section> - <section id="query"> <title>Searching for Bugs</title> @@ -300,144 +278,8 @@ <para>Once you've run a search, you can save it as a Saved Search, which appears in the page footer.</para> - <section id="boolean"> - <title>Boolean Charts</title> - <para> - Highly advanced querying is done using Boolean Charts. - </para> - <para> - The boolean charts further restrict the set of results - returned by a query. It is possible to search for bugs - based on elaborate combinations of critera. - </para> - <para> - The simplest boolean searches have only one term. These searches - permit the selected left <emphasis>field</emphasis> - to be compared using a - selectable <emphasis>operator</emphasis> to a - specified <emphasis>value.</emphasis> - Using the "And," "Or," and "Add Another Boolean Chart" buttons, - additonal terms can be included in the query, further - altering the list of bugs returned by the query. - </para> - <para> - There are three fields in each row of a boolean search. - </para> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem> - <para> - <emphasis>Field:</emphasis> - the items being searched - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <emphasis>Operator:</emphasis> - the comparison operator - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - <emphasis>Value:</emphasis> - the value to which the field is being compared - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - <section id="pronouns"> - <title>Pronoun Substitution</title> - <para> - Sometimes, a query needs to compare a field containing - a user's ID (such as ReportedBy) with - a user's ID (such as the user running the query or the user - to whom each bug is assigned). When the operator is either - "equals" or "notequals", the value can be "%reporter%", - "%assignee%", "%qacontact%", or "%user%." The user pronoun - referes to the user who is executing the query or, in the case - of whining reports, the user who will be the recipient - of the report. The reporter, assignee, and qacontact - pronouns refer to the corresponding fields in the bug. - </para> - </section> - <section id="negation"> - <title>Negation</title> - <para> - At first glance, negation seems redundant. Rather than - searching for - <blockquote> - <para> - NOT("summary" "contains the string" "foo"), - </para> - </blockquote> - one could search for - <blockquote> - <para> - ("summary" "does not contain the string" "foo"). - </para> - </blockquote> - However, the search - <blockquote> - <para> - ("CC" "does not contain the string" "@mozilla.org") - </para> - </blockquote> - would find every bug where anyone on the CC list did not contain - "@mozilla.org" while - <blockquote> - <para> - NOT("CC" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org") - </para> - </blockquote> - would find every bug where there was nobody on the CC list who - did contain the string. Similarly, the use of negation also permits - complex expressions to be built using terms OR'd together and then - negated. Negation permits queries such as - <blockquote> - <para> - NOT(("product" "equals" "update") OR - ("component" "equals" "Documentation")) - </para> - </blockquote> - to find bugs that are neither - in the update product or in the documentation component or - <blockquote> - <para> - NOT(("commenter" "equals" "%assignee%") OR - ("component" "equals" "Documentation")) - </para> - </blockquote> - to find non-documentation - bugs on which the assignee has never commented. - </para> - </section> - <section id="multiplecharts"> - <title>Multiple Charts</title> - <para> - The terms within a single row of a boolean chart are all - constraints on a single piece of data. If you are looking for - a bug that has two different people cc'd on it, then you need - to use two boolean charts. A search for - <blockquote> - <para> - ("cc" "contains the string" "foo@") AND - ("cc" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org") - </para> - </blockquote> - would return only bugs with "foo@mozilla.org" on the cc list. - If you wanted bugs where there is someone on the cc list - containing "foo@" and someone else containing "@mozilla.org", - then you would need two boolean charts. - <blockquote> - <para> - First chart: ("cc" "contains the string" "foo@") - </para> - <para> - Second chart: ("cc" "contains the string" "@mozilla.org") - </para> - </blockquote> - The bugs listed will be only the bugs where ALL the charts are true. - </para> - </section> - </section> + <para>Highly advanced querying is done using Boolean Charts. See the + Boolean Charts help link on the Search page for more information.</para> </section> <section id="list"> @@ -461,22 +303,7 @@ get the buglist as comma-separated values, for import into e.g. a spreadsheet.</member> - - <member> - <emphasis>RSS</emphasis> - - get the buglist as an RSS 1.0 feed. Copy this link into your - favorite feed reader. If you are using Firefox, you can also - save the list as a live bookmark by clicking the live bookmark - icon in the status bar. To limit the number of bugs in the feed, - add a limit=n parameter to the URL.</member> - - <member> - <emphasis>iCalendar</emphasis> - - Get the buglist as an iCalendar file. Each bug is represented as a - to-do item in the imported calendar.</member> - + <member> <emphasis>Change Columns:</emphasis> @@ -487,12 +314,12 @@ If your account is sufficiently empowered, you can make the same change to all the bugs in the list - for example, changing their - assignee.</member> + owner.</member> <member> - <emphasis>Send mail to bug assignees:</emphasis> + <emphasis>Send mail to bug owners:</emphasis> - Sends mail to the assignees of all bugs on the list.</member> + Sends mail to the owners of all bugs on the list.</member> <member> <emphasis>Edit Search:</emphasis> @@ -509,17 +336,6 @@ </member> </simplelist> </para> - - <para> - If you would like to access the bug list from another program - it is often useful to have the list returned in something other - than HTML. By adding the ctype=type parameter into the bug list URL - you can specify several alternate formats. The supported formats - are: Comma Separated Values (ctype=csv), iCalendar (ctype=ics), - RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0 (ctype=rss), ECMAScript, also known - as JavaScript (ctype=js), and finally Resource Description Framework - RDF/XML (ctype=rdf). - </para> </section> <section id="bugreports"> @@ -803,144 +619,30 @@ <section id="emailsettings"> <title>Email Settings</title> - <para> - This tab controls the amount of email Bugzilla sends you. + <para>On this tab you can reduce or increase the amount of email sent + you from Bugzilla, opting in our out depending on your relationship to + the bug and the change that was made to it. </para> - - <para> - The first item on this page is marked <quote>Users to watch</quote>. - When you enter one or more comma-delineated user accounts (usually email - addresses) into the text entry box, you will receive a copy of all the - bugmail those users are sent (security settings permitting). - This powerful functionality enables seamless transitions as developers - change projects or users go on holiday. - </para> - - <note> - <para> - The ability to watch other users may not be available in all - Bugzilla installations. If you don't see this feature, and feel - that you need it, speak to your administrator. - </para> - </note> - - <para> - In general, users have almost complete control over how much (or - how little) email Bugzilla sends them. If you want to receive the - maximum amount of email possible, click the <quote>Enable All - Mail</quote> button. If you don't want to receive any email from - Bugzilla at all, click the <quote>Disable All Mail</quote> button. - </para> - - <note> - <para> - Your Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving - bugmail by adding the user's name to the - <filename>data/nomail</filename> file. This is a drastic step - best taken only for disabled accounts, as it overrides the - the user's individual mail preferences. - </para> - </note> - + <para> - If you'd like to set your bugmail to something besides - 'Completely ON' and 'Completely OFF', the - <quote>Field/recipient specific options</quote> table - allows you to do just that. The rows of the table - define events that can happen to a bug -- things like - attachments being added, new comments being made, the - priority changing, etc. The columns in the table define - your relationship with the bug: - </para> - - <itemizedlist spacing="compact"> - <listitem> - <para> - Reporter - Where you are the person who initially - reported the bug. Your name/account appears in the - <quote>Reporter:</quote> field. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Assignee - Where you are the person who has been - designated as the one responsible for the bug. Your - name/account appears in the <quote>Assigned To:</quote> - field of the bug. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - QA Contact - You are one of the designated - QA Contacts for the bug. Your account appears in the - <quote>QA Contact:</quote> text-box of the bug. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - CC - You are on the list CC List for the bug. - Your account appears in the <quote>CC:</quote> text box - of the bug. - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para> - Voter - You have placed one or more votes for the bug. - Your account appears only if someone clicks on the - <quote>Show votes for this bug</quote> link on the bug. - </para> - </listitem> - </itemizedlist> - - - <note> - <para> - Some columns may not be visible for your installation, depending - on your site's configuration. - </para> - </note> + You can also do further filtering on the client side by + using the X-Bugzilla-Reason mail header which Bugzilla + adds to all bugmail. This tells you what relationship you have to the + bug in question, + and can be any of Owner, Reporter, QAcontact, CClist, Voter and + WatchingComponent.</para> - <para> - To fine-tune your bugmail, decide the events for which you want - to receive bugmail; then decide if you want to receive it all - the time (enable the checkbox for every column), or only when - you have a certain relationship with a bug (enable the checkbox - only for those columns). For example: if you didn't want to - receive mail when someone added themselves to the CC list, you - could uncheck all the boxes in the <quote>CC Field Changes</quote> - line. As another example, if you never wanted to receive email - on bugs you reported unless the bug was resolved, you would - un-check all boxes in the <quote>Reporter</quote> column - except for the one on the <quote>The bug is resolved or - verified</quote> row. - </para> + <para>By entering user email names, delineated by commas, into the + "Users to watch" text entry box you can receive a copy of all the + bugmail of other users (security settings permitting.) This powerful + functionality enables seamless transitions as developers change + projects or users go on holiday.</para> <note> - <para> - Bugzilla adds the <quote>X-Bugzilla-Reason</quote> header to - all bugmail it sends, describing the recipient's relationship - (AssignedTo, Reporter, QAContact, CC, or Voter) to the bug. - This header can be used to do further client-side filtering. - </para> + <para>The ability to watch other users may not be available in all + Bugzilla installations. If you can't see it, ask your + administrator.</para> </note> - - <para> - Two items not in the table (<quote>Email me when someone - asks me to set a flag</quote> and <quote>Email me when someone - sets a flag I asked for</quote>) define how you want to - receive bugmail with regards to flags. Their use is quite - straightforward; enable the checkboxes if you want Bugzilla to - send you mail under either of the above conditions. - </para> - - <para> - By default, Bugzilla sends out email regardless of who made the - change... even if you were the one responsible for generating - the email in the first place. If you don't care to receive bugmail - from your own changes, check the box marked <quote>Only email me - reports of changes made by other people</quote>. - </para> - </section> <section id="permissionsettings"> @@ -1110,264 +812,6 @@ </section> - <section id="flags"> - <title>Flags</title> - - <para> - A flag is a kind of status that can be set on bugs or attachments - to indicate that the bugs/attachments are in a certain state. - Each installation can define its own set of flags that can be set - on bugs or attachments. - </para> - - <para> - If your installation has defined a flag, you can set or unset that flag, - and if your administrator has enabled requesting of flags, you can submit - a request for another user to set the flag. - </para> - - <para> - To set a flag, select either "+" or "-" from the drop-down menu next to - the name of the flag in the "Flags" list. The meaning of these values are - flag-specific and thus cannot be described in this documentation, - but by way of example, setting a flag named "review" to "+" may indicate - that the bug/attachment has passed review, while setting it to "-" - may indicate that the bug/attachment has failed review. - </para> - - <para> - To unset a flag, click its drop-down menu and select the blank value. - </para> - - <para> - If your administrator has enabled requests for a flag, request a flag - by selecting "?" from the drop-down menu and then entering the username - of the user you want to set the flag in the text field next to the menu. - </para> - - <para> - A set flag appears in bug reports and on "edit attachment" pages with the - abbreviated username of the user who set the flag prepended to the - flag name. For example, if Jack sets a "review" flag to "+", it appears - as Jack: review [ + ] - </para> - - <para> - A requested flag appears with the user who requested the flag prepended - to the flag name and the user who has been requested to set the flag - appended to the flag name within parentheses. For example, if Jack - asks Jill for review, it appears as Jack: review [ ? ] (Jill). - </para> - </section> - - <section id="whining"> - <title>Whining</title> - - <para> - Whining is a feature in Bugzilla that can regularly annoy users at - specified times. Using this feature, users can execute saved searches - at specific times (i.e. the 15th of the month at midnight) or at - regular intervals (i.e. every 15 minutes on Sundays). The results of the - searches are sent to the user, either as a single email or as one email - per bug, along with some descriptive text. - </para> - - <warning> - <para> - Throughout this section it will be assumed that all users are members - of the bz_canusewhines group, membership in which is required in order - to use the Whining system. You can easily make all users members of - the bz_canusewhines group by setting the User RegExp to ".*" (without - the quotes). - </para> - - <para> - Also worth noting is the bz_canusewhineatothers group. Members of this - group can create whines for any user or group in Bugzilla using a - extended form of the whining interface. Features only available to - members of the bz_canusewhineatothers group will be noted in the - appropriate places. - </para> - </warning> - - <note> - <para> - For whining to work, a special Perl script must be executed at regular - intervals. More information on this is available in - <xref linkend="installation-whining"/>. - </para> - </note> - - <note> - <para> - This section does not cover the whineatnews.pl script. See - <xref linkend="installation-whining-cron"/> for more information on - The Whining Cron. - </para> - </note> - - <section id="whining-overview"> - <title>The Event</title> - - <para> - The whining system defines an "Event" as one or more queries being - executed at regular intervals, with the results of said queries (if - there are any) being emailed to the user. Events are created by - clicking on the "Add new event" button. - </para> - - <para> - Once a new event is created, the first thing to set is the "Email - subject line". The contents of this field will be used in the subject - line of every email generated by this event. In addition to setting a - subject, space is provided to enter some descriptive text that will be - included at the top of each message (to help you in understanding why - you received the email in the first place). - </para> - - <para> - The next step is to specify when the Event is to be run (the Schedule) - and what searches are to be performed (the Queries). - </para> - - </section> - - <section id="whining-schedule"> - <title>Whining Schedule</title> - - <para> - Each whining event is associated with zero or more schedules. A - schedule is used to specify when the query (specified below) is to be - run. A new event starts out with no schedules (which means it will - never run, as it is not scheduled to run). To add a schedule, press - the "Add a new schedule" button. - </para> - - <para> - Each schedule includes an interval, which you use to tell Bugzilla - when the event should be run. An event can be run on certain days of - the week, certain days of the month, during weekdays (defined as - Monday through Friday), or every day. - </para> - - <warning> - <para> - Be careful if you set your event to run on the 29th, 30th, or 31st of - the month, as your event may not run exactly when expected. If you - want your event to run on the last day of the month, select "Last day - of the month" as the interval. - </para> - </warning> - - <para> - Once you have specified the day(s) on which the event is to be run, you - should now specify the time at which the event is to be run. You can - have the event run at a certain hour on the specified day(s), or - every hour, half-hour, or quarter-hour on the specified day(s). - </para> - - <para> - If a single schedule does not execute an event as many times as you - would want, you can create another schedule for the same event. For - example, if you want to run an event on days whose numbers are - divisible by seven, you would need to add four schedules to the event, - setting the schedules to run on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th (one day - per schedule) at whatever time (or times) you choose. - </para> - - <note> - <para> - If you are a member of the bz_canusewhineatothers group, then you - will be presented with another option: "Mail to". Using this you - can control who will receive the emails generated by this event. You - can choose to send the emails to a single user (identified by email - address) or a single group (identified by group name). To send to - multiple users or groups, create a new schedule for each additional - user/group. - </para> - </note> - </section> - - <section id="whining-query"> - <title>Whining Queries</title> - - <para> - Each whining event is associated with zero or more queries. A query is - a saved search that is executed on the schedule specified (see above). - You start out with zero queries attached to the event (which means that - the event will not run, as there will never be any results to return). - To add a query, press the "Add a new query" button. - </para> - - <para> - The first field to examine in your new query is the Sort field. Queries - are executed, and results returned, in the order specified by the Sort - field. Queries with lower Sort values will run before queries with - higher Sort values. - </para> - - <para> - The next field to examine is the Search field. This is where you - choose the actual search that is to be run. Instead of defining search - parameters here, you are asked to choose from the list of saved - searches (the same list that appears at the bottom of every Bugzilla - page). You are only allowed to choose from searches that you have - saved yourself (the default saved search, "My Bugs", is not a valid - choice). If you do not have any saved searches, you can take this - opportunity to create one (see <xref linkend="list"/>). - </para> - - <note> - <para> - When running queries, the whining system acts as if you are the user - executing the query. This means that the whining system will ignore - bugs that match your query, but that you can not access. - </para> - </note> - - <para> - Once you have chosen the saved search to be executed, give the query a - descriptive title. This title will appear in the email, above the - results of the query. If you choose "One message per bug", the query - title will appear at the top of each email that contains a bug matching - your query. - </para> - - <para> - Finally, decide if the results of the query should be sent in a single - email, or if each bug should appear in its own email. - </para> - - <warning> - <para> - Think carefully before checking the "One message per bug" box. If - you create a query that matches thousands of bugs, you will receive - thousands of emails! - </para> - </warning> - </section> - - <section> - <title>Saving Your Changes</title> - - <para> - Once you have defined at least one schedule, and created at least one - query, go ahead and "Update/Commit". This will save your Event and make - it available for immediate execution. - </para> - - <note> - <para> - If you ever feel like deleting your event, you may do so using the - "Remove Event" button in the upper-right corner of each Event. You - can also modify an existing event, so long as you "Update/Commit" - after completing your modifications. - </para> - </note> - </section> - - </section> - </chapter> <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file |