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diff --git a/docs/sgml/about.sgml b/docs/sgml/about.sgml index 04e054bc2..62e486573 100644 --- a/docs/sgml/about.sgml +++ b/docs/sgml/about.sgml @@ -7,13 +7,6 @@ <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> |