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diff --git a/docs/html/whatis.html b/docs/html/whatis.html index 9eaea4b69..9b7791a9d 100644 --- a/docs/html/whatis.html +++ b/docs/html/whatis.html @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Tracking Systems", or, more commonly, "Bug-Tracking Systems". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Bugzilla was originally written by Terry Weissman in a programming language called -"TCL", to replace a crappy bug-tracking database used internally for +"TCL", to replace a crappy bug-tracking database used internally by Netscape Communications. Terry later ported Bugzilla to Perl from TCL, and in Perl it remains to this day. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors at the time charged enormous @@ -96,83 +96,54 @@ system against which all others are measured. ><UL ><LI ><P -> integrated, product-based granular security schema - </P +>Powerful searching</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> inter-bug dependencies and dependency graphing - </P +>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> advanced reporting capabilities - </P +>Full change history</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> a robust, stable RDBMS back-end - </P +>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> extensive configurability - </P +>Excellent attachment management</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> a very well-understood and well-thought-out natural bug resolution protocol - </P +>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> email, XML, console, and HTTP APIs - </P +>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> available integration with automated software - configuration management systems, including Perforce and - CVS (through the Bugzilla email interface and - checkin/checkout scripts) - </P +>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</P ></LI ><LI ><P -> too many more features to list - </P +>Web, XML, email and console interfaces</P ></LI -></UL -> - </P +><LI ><P -> Despite its current robustness and popularity, Bugzilla faces - some near-term challenges, such as reliance on a single - database, a lack of abstraction of the user interface and - program logic, verbose email bug notifications, a powerful but - daunting query interface, little reporting configurability, - problems with extremely large queries, some unsupportable bug - resolution options, little internationalization (although non-US - character sets are accepted for comments), and dependence on - some nonstandard libraries. - </P +>Completely customisable and/or localisable web user interface</P +></LI +><LI ><P -> Some recent headway has been made on the query front, however. - If you are using the latest version of Bugzilla, you should see - a <SPAN -CLASS="QUOTE" ->"simple search"</SPAN -> form on the default front page of - your Bugzilla install. Type in two or three search terms and - you should pull up some relevant information. This is also - available as "queryhelp.cgi". - </P +>Extensive configurability</P +></LI +><LI ><P -> Despite these small problems, Bugzilla is very hard to beat. It - is under <EM ->very</EM -> active development to address - the current issues, and continually gains new features. +>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</P +></LI +></UL +> </P ></DIV ><DIV |