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diff --git a/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml b/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml index e639ae75f..bd0b3a4a1 100644 --- a/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml +++ b/docs/sgml/Bugzilla-Guide.sgml @@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ <!ENTITY revhistory SYSTEM "revhistory.sgml"> <!ENTITY bz "http://www.bugzilla.org/"> -<!ENTITY bz-ver "2.14"> -<!ENTITY bz-cvs-ver "2.15"> -<!ENTITY bzg-date "August 10, 2001"> -<!ENTITY bzg-ver "2.14"> -<!ENTITY bzg-cvs-ver "2.15.0"> -<!ENTITY bzg-auth "Matthew P. Barnson"> -<!ENTITY bzg-auth-email "<email>barnboy@trilobyte.net</email>"> +<!ENTITY bz-ver "2.16"> +<!ENTITY bz-cvs-ver "2.17"> +<!ENTITY bzg-date "April 2nd, 2002"> +<!ENTITY bzg-ver "2.16"> +<!ENTITY bzg-cvs-ver "2.17.0"> +<!ENTITY bzg-auth "The Bugzilla Team"> +<!ENTITY bzg-bugs "<ulink url='http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&component=Documentation'>Bugzilla</ulink>"> <!ENTITY mysql "http://www.mysql.com/"> <!ENTITY perl-ver "5.6.1"> 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> diff --git a/docs/sgml/using.sgml b/docs/sgml/using.sgml index 80ecb5c0b..6cb301d61 100644 --- a/docs/sgml/using.sgml +++ b/docs/sgml/using.sgml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ 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 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ system against which all others are measured. </listitem> <listitem> <para> - email, XML, console, and HTTP APIs + email, XML, console, and web interfaces </para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -105,30 +105,6 @@ system against which all others are measured. </listitem> </itemizedlist> </para> - <para> - 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. - </para> - <para> - Some recent headway has been made on the query front, however. - If you are using the latest version of Bugzilla, you should see - a <quote>simple search</quote> 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". - </para> - <para> - Despite these small problems, Bugzilla is very hard to beat. It - is under <emphasis>very</emphasis> active development to address - the current issues, and continually gains new features. - </para> </section> <section id="why"> @@ -215,16 +191,8 @@ system against which all others are measured. Throughout this portion of the Guide, we will refer to user account options available at the Bugzilla test installation, <ulink url="http://landfill.tequilarista.org/"> - landfill.tequilarista.org</ulink>. - <note> - <para> - Some people have run into difficulties completing this - tutorial. If you run into problems, please check the - updated online documentation available at <ulink - url="http://www.trilobyte.net/barnsons/">http://www.trilobyte.net/barnsons</ulink>. If you're still stumped, please subscribe to the newsgroup and provide details of exactly what's stumping you! If enough people complain, I'll have to fix it in the next version of this Guide. You can subscribe to the newsgroup at <ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.webtools"> news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.webtools</ulink> - </para> - - </note> Although Landfill serves as a great introduction to + landfill.tequilarista.org</ulink>. + Although Landfill serves as a great introduction to Bugzilla, it does not offer all the options you would have as a user on your own installation of Bugzilla, nor can it do more than serve as a general introduction to Bugzilla. Additionally, @@ -236,7 +204,7 @@ system against which all others are measured. <section id="myaccount"> <title>Create a Bugzilla Account</title> <para> - First things first! If you want to use Bugzilla, first you + If you want to use Bugzilla, first you need to create an account. Consult with the administrator responsible for your installation of Bugzilla for the URL you should use to access it. If you're test-driving the end-user @@ -282,19 +250,6 @@ system against which all others are measured. that you can login. </para> </note> - <caution> - <para> - Many modern browsers include an - <quote>Auto-Complete</quote> or <quote>Form - Fill</quote> feature to remember the user names and - passwords you type in at many sites. Unfortunately, - sometimes they attempt to guess what you will put in - as your password, and guess wrong. If you notice a - text box is already filled out, please overwrite the - contents of the text box so you can be sure to input - the correct information. - </para> - </caution> </para> </listitem> </orderedlist> @@ -318,16 +273,6 @@ system against which all others are measured. report later on. </para> <para> - There are efforts underway to simplify query usage. If you - have a local installation of Bugzilla 2.12 or higher, you - should have <filename>quicksearch.html</filename> available to - use and simplify your searches. There is also a helper for - the query interface, called - <filename>queryhelp.cgi</filename>. Landfill tends to run the - latest code, so these two utilities should be available there - for your perusal. - </para> - <para> At this point, let's visit the query page. <ulink url="http://landfill.tequilarista.org/bugzilla-tip/query.cgi"> landfill.tequilarista.org/bugzilla-tip/query.cgi</ulink> |