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diff --git a/docs/README.docs b/docs/README.docs
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-Welcome to the Bugzilla documentation project!
-You'll find these directories and files here:
-
-README.docs # This README file
-html/ # The compiled HTML docs from XML sources (do not edit)
-txt/ # The compiled text docs from XML sources (do not edit)
-xml/ # The original XML doc sources (edit these)
-
-A note about the XML:
- The documentation is written in DocBook 4.1.2, and attempts to adhere
-to the LinuxDoc standards where applicable (http://www.tldp.org).
-Please consult "The LDP Author Guide" at tldp.org for details on how
-to set up your personal environment for compiling XML files.
- If you need to make corrections to typographical errors, or other minor
-editing duties, feel free to use any text editor to make the changes. XML
-is not rocket science -- simply make sure your text appears between
-appropriate tags (like <para>This is a paragraph</para>) and we'll be fine.
-If you are making more extensive changes, please ensure you at least validate
-your XML before checking it in with something like:
- nsgmls -s $JADE_PUB/xml.dcl Bugzilla-Guide.xml
-
- When you validate, please validate the master document (Bugzilla-Guide.xml)
-as well as the document you edited to ensure there are no critical errors.
-The following errors are considered "normal" when validating with nsgmls:
-
- DTDDECL catalog entries are not supported
- "DOCTYPE" declaration not allowed in instance
-
- The reason these occur is that free sgml/xml validators do not yet support
-the DTDDECL catalog entries, and I've included DOCTYPE declarations in
-entities referenced from Bugzilla-Guide.xml so these entities can compile
-individually, if necessary. I suppose I ought to comment them out at some
-point, but for now they are convenient and don't hurt anything.
-
- Thanks for taking the time to read these notes and consulting the
-documentation. Please address comments and questions to the newsgroup:
-news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools .
-
-==========
-HOW TO SET UP YOUR OWN XML EDITING ENVIRONMENT:
-==========
-
-Trying to set up an XML Docbook editing environment the
-first time can be a daunting task.
-I use Linux-Mandrake, in part, because it has a fully-functional
-XML Docbook editing environment included as part of the
-distribution CD's. If you have easier instructions for how to
-do this for a particular Linux distribution or platform, please
-let the team know at the mailing list: mozilla-webtools@mozilla.org.
-
-The following text is taken nearly verbatim from
-http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95970, where I gave
-these instructions to someone who wanted the greater manageability
-maintaining a document in Docbook brings:
-
-This is just off the top of my head, but here goes. Note some of these may
-NOT be necessary, but I don't think they hurt anything by being installed.
-
-rpms:
-
-openjade
-jadetex
-docbook-dtds
-docbook-style-dsssl
-docbook-style-dsssl-doc
-docbook-utils
-xemacs
-psgml
-sgml-tools
-sgml-common
-
-
-If you're getting these from RedHat, make sure you get the ones in the
-rawhide area. The ones in the 7.2 distribution are too old and don't
-include the XML stuff. The packages distrubuted with RedHat 8.0 and 9
-and known to work.
-
-Download "ldp.dsl" from the Resources page on tldp.org. This is the
-stylesheet I use to get the HTML and text output. It works well, and has a
-nice, consistent look with the rest of the linuxdoc documents. You'll have to
-adjust the paths in ldp.dsl at the top of the file to reflect the actual
-locations of your docbook catalog files. I created a directory,
-/usr/share/sgml/docbook/ldp, and put the ldp.dsl file there. I then edited
-ldp.dsl and changed two lines near the top:
-<!ENTITY docbook.dsl SYSTEM "../dsssl-stylesheets/html/docbook.dsl" CDATA
-dsssl>
-...and...
-<!ENTITY docbook.dsl SYSTEM "../dsssl-stylesheets/print/docbook.dsl" CDATA
-dsssl>
-
-Note the difference is the top one points to the HTML docbook stylesheet,
-and the next one points to the PRINT docbook stylesheet.
-
-Also note that modifying ldp.dsl doesn't seem to be needed on RedHat 9.
-
- You know, this sure looks awful involved. Anyway, once you have this in
-place, add to your .bashrc:
-export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml/catalog
-export LDP_HOME=/usr/share/sgml/docbook/ldp
-export JADE_PUB=/usr/share/doc/openjade-1.3.1/pubtext
-
-or in .tcshrc:
-setenv SGML_CATALOG_FILES /etc/sgml/catalog
-setenv LDP_HOME /usr/share/sgml/docbook/ldp
-setenv JADE_PUB /usr/share/doc/openjade-1.3.1/pubtext
-
- If you have root access and want to set this up for anyone on your box,
-you can add those lines to /etc/profile for bash users and /etc/csh.login
-for tcsh users.
-
- Make sure you edit the paths in the above environment variables if those
-folders are anywhere else on your system (for example, the openjade version
-might change if you get a new version at some point).
-
- I suggest xemacs for editing your XML Docbook documents. The darn
-thing just works, and generally includes PSGML mode by default. Not to
-mention you can validate the SGML from right within it without having to
-remember the command-line syntax for nsgml (not that it's that hard
-anyway). If not, you can download psgml at
-http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/psgml.
-
- Another good editor is the latest releases of vim and gvim. Vim will
-recognize DocBook tags and give them a different color than unreconized tags.
-
-==========
-NOTES:
-==========
-
- Here are the commands I use to maintain this documentation.
- You MUST have DocBook 4.1.2 set up correctly in order for this to work.
-
- These commands can be run all at once using the ./makedocs.pl script.
-
-To create HTML documentation:
-bash$ cd html
-bash$ jade -t sgml -i html -d $LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html \
-$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml
-
-To create HTML documentation as a single big HTML file:
-bash$ cd html
-bash$ jade -V nochunks -t sgml -i html -d $LDP_HOME/ldp.dsl\#html \
-$JADE_PUB/xml.dcl ../xml/Bugzilla-Guide.xml >Bugzilla-Guide.html
-
-To create TXT documentation as a single big TXT file:
-bash$ cd txt
-bash$ lynx -dump -nolist ../html/Bugzilla-Guide.html >Bugzilla-Guide.txt
-
-
-Sincerely,
- Matthew P. Barnson
- The Bugzilla "Doc Knight"
- mbarnson@sisna.com
-
- with major edits by Dave Miller <justdave@syndicomm.com> based on
- experience setting this up on the Landfill test server.
diff --git a/docs/en/xml/integration.xml b/docs/en/xml/integration.xml
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" > -->
-<!-- Keep these tools listings in alphabetical order please. -MPB -->
-<section id="integration">
- <title>Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools</title>
-
- <section id="bonsai"
- xreflabel="Bonsai, the Mozilla automated CVS management system">
- <title>Bonsai</title>
-
- <para>Bonsai is a web-based tool for managing
- <xref linkend="cvs" />
-
- . Using Bonsai, administrators can control open/closed status of trees,
- query a fast relational database back-end for change, branch, and comment
- information, and view changes made since the last time the tree was
- closed. Bonsai
- also integrates with
- <xref linkend="tinderbox" />.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cvs" xreflabel="CVS, the Concurrent Versioning System">
- <title>CVS</title>
-
- <para>CVS integration is best accomplished, at this point, using the
- Bugzilla Email Gateway.</para>
-
- <para>Follow the instructions in this Guide for enabling Bugzilla e-mail
- integration. Ensure that your check-in script sends an email to your
- Bugzilla e-mail gateway with the subject of
- <quote>[Bug XXXX]</quote>,
- and you can have CVS check-in comments append to your Bugzilla bug. If
- you want to have the bug be closed automatically, you'll have to modify
- the <filename>contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl</filename> script.
- </para>
-
- <para>There is also a CVSZilla project, based upon somewhat dated
- Bugzilla code, to integrate CVS and Bugzilla through CVS' ability to
- email. Check it out at: <ulink url="http://www.cvszilla.org/"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>Another system capable of CVS integration with Bugzilla is
- Scmbug. This system provides generic integration of Source code
- Configuration Management with Bugtracking. Check it out at: <ulink
- url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="scm"
- xreflabel="Perforce SCM (Fast Software Configuration Management System, a powerful commercial alternative to CVS">
-
- <title>Perforce SCM</title>
-
- <para>You can find the project page for Bugzilla and Teamtrack Perforce
- integration (p4dti) at:
- <ulink url="http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/"/>
-
- .
- <quote>p4dti</quote>
-
- is now an officially supported product from Perforce, and you can find
- the "Perforce Public Depot" p4dti page at
- <ulink url="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/p4dti/index.html"/>
-
- .</para>
-
- <para>Integration of Perforce with Bugzilla, once patches are applied, is
- seamless. Perforce replication information will appear below the comments
- of each bug. Be certain you have a matching set of patches for the
- Bugzilla version you are installing. p4dti is designed to support
- multiple defect trackers, and maintains its own documentation for it.
- Please consult the pages linked above for further information.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="svn"
- xreflabel="Subversion, a compelling replacement for CVS">
- <title>Subversion</title>
- <para>Subversion is a free/open-source version control system,
- designed to overcome various limitations of CVS. Integration of
- Subversion with Bugzilla is possible using Scmbug, a system
- providing generic integration of Source Code Configuration
- Management with Bugtracking. Scmbug is available at <ulink
- url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/"/>.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="tinderbox"
- xreflabel="Tinderbox, the Mozilla automated build management system">
- <title>Tinderbox/Tinderbox2</title>
-
- <para>Tinderbox is a continuous-build system which can integrate with
- Bugzilla - see
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox"/> for details
- of Tinderbox, and
- <ulink url="http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi"/> to see it
- in action.</para>
- </section>
-</section>
-
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-<chapter id="introduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <section id="whatis">
- <title>What is Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla is a bug- or issue-tracking system. Bug-tracking
- systems allow individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track
- of outstanding problems with their product.
- Bugzilla was originally
- written by Terry Weissman in a programming language called TCL, to
- replace a rudimentary 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 licensing fees, and Bugzilla quickly became
- a favorite of the open-source crowd (with its genesis in the open-source
- browser project, Mozilla). It is now the de-facto standard
- defect-tracking system against which all others are measured.
- </para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla boasts many advanced features. These include:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Powerful searching</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Full change history</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Excellent attachment management</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Web, XML, email and console interfaces</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Completely customisable and/or localisable web user
- interface</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Extensive configurability</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="why">
- <title>Why Should We Use Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>For many years, defect-tracking software has remained principally
- the domain of large software development houses. Even then, most shops
- never bothered with bug-tracking software, and instead simply relied on
- shared lists and email to monitor the status of defects. This procedure
- is error-prone and tends to cause those bugs judged least significant by
- developers to be dropped or ignored.</para>
-
- <para>These days, many companies are finding that integrated
- defect-tracking systems reduce downtime, increase productivity, and raise
- customer satisfaction with their systems. Along with full disclosure, an
- open bug-tracker allows manufacturers to keep in touch with their clients
- and resellers, to communicate about problems effectively throughout the
- data management chain. Many corporations have also discovered that
- defect-tracking helps reduce costs by providing IT support
- accountability, telephone support knowledge bases, and a common,
- well-understood system for accounting for unusual system or software
- issues.</para>
-
- <para>But why should
- <emphasis>you</emphasis>
-
- use Bugzilla?</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses
- currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment
- management, chip design and development problem tracking (both
- pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for
- luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems.
- Combined with systems such as
- <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org">CVS</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/bonsai.html">Bonsai</ulink>, or
- <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com">Perforce SCM</ulink>, Bugzilla
- provides a powerful, easy-to-use solution to configuration management and
- replication problems.</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla can dramatically increase the productivity and
- accountability of individual employees by providing a documented workflow
- and positive feedback for good performance. How many times do you wake up
- in the morning, remembering that you were supposed to do
- <emphasis>something</emphasis>
- today, but you just can't quite remember? Put it in Bugzilla, and you
- have a record of it from which you can extrapolate milestones, predict
- product versions for integration, and follow the discussion trail
- that led to critical decisions.</para>
-
- <para>Ultimately, Bugzilla puts the power in your hands to improve your
- value to your employer or business while providing a usable framework for
- your natural attention to detail and knowledge store to flourish.</para>
- </section>
-</chapter>
-
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<warning>
<para>
- These files pre-date the templatisation work done as part of the
+ These files pre-date the templatization work done as part of the
2.16 release, and have not been updated.
</para>
</warning>
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-
-<appendix id="downloadlinks">
- <title>Software Download Links</title>
- <para>
- All of these sites are current as of April, 2001. Hopefully
- they'll stay current for a while.
- </para>
- <para>
- Apache Web Server: <ulink url="http://www.apache.org/">http://www.apache.org</ulink>
- Optional web server for Bugzilla, but recommended because of broad user base and support.
- </para>
- <para>
- Bugzilla: <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/">
- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- MySQL: <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/">http://www.mysql.com/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- Perl: <ulink url="http://www.perl.org">http://www.perl.org/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- CPAN: <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/">http://www.cpan.org/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- DBI Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- Data::Dumper module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- MySQL related Perl modules:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- TimeDate Perl module collection:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- GD Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/</ulink>
- Alternately, you should be able to find the latest version of
- GD at <ulink url="http://www.boutell.com/gd/">http://www.boutell.com/gd/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- Chart::Base module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/">
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/</ulink>
- </para>
- <para>
- LinuxDoc Software:
- <ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">http://www.linuxdoc.org/</ulink>
- (for documentation maintenance)
- </para>
-
-</appendix>
-
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-*.html
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-*.html
-Bugzilla
-contrib
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-/* The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public
- * License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file
- * except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
- * the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
- *
- * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS
- * IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
- * implied. See the License for the specific language governing
- * rights and limitations under the License.
- *
- * The Original Code is the Bugzilla Bug Tracking System.
- *
- * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Everything Solved.
- * Portions created by Everything Solved are Copyright (C) 2006
- * Everything Solved. All Rights Reserved.
- *
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- <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
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-possession#</dia:string>
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- <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
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-possession#</dia:string>
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- WORKSFORME
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- <dia:string>#Development is
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- <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
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-Release Notes for Bugzilla version 3.0 and higher are available in HTML
-format, either on the bugzilla.org website, or in your current installation,
-linked from the index page.
-
-bugzilla.org links for release notes
-------------------------------------
-3.0.2: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/3.0.2/release-notes.html
-
-***************************************
-*** The Bugzilla 2.22 Release Notes ***
-***************************************
-
-Table of Contents
-*****************
-
-- Introduction
-- Important Updates In This Point Release
-- Minimum Requirements
- * Perl
- * For MySQL Users
- * For PostgreSQL Users
- * Required Perl Modules
- * Optional Perl Modules
-- What's New?
- * Complete PostgreSQL Support
- * Parameters In Sections
- * One Codebase, Multiple Databases
- * UTF-8 for New Installations
- * Admins Can Impersonate Users
- * Bug Import and Moving Improvements
- * Adding Individual Bugs to Saved Searches
- * Attach URLs
- * Optional "Strict Isolation" for Groups
- * "editcomponents" Change
- * "shutdownhtml" Change
- * Miscellaneous Improvements
- * All Changes
-- Deprecated Features
-- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
-- How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
- * Steps for Upgrading
-- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
- * CGI.pl is Gone
- * Other Changes
-- Security Fixes In 2.22 Releases
-- Release Notes for Previous Versions
-
-Introduction
-************
-Bugzilla 2.22 is one of our most polished releases. We did a lot of
-small cleanups to make Bugzilla easier to use and more useful in
-many, many small ways, in addition to adding some major new features.
-
-This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.22.
-In this document, recently added, changed, and removed features
-of Bugzilla are described. If you are upgrading from an older version,
-you will definitely want to read these release notes in detail, so that
-you have an idea of what has changed.
-
-If you are upgrading from a version before 2.20, also read the 2.20
-release notes (lower in this file) and any previous release notes.
-
-If you are installing a new Bugzilla, you will still want to look over
-the release notes to see if there is any particularly important
-information that affects your installation.
-
-If you would like to contribute code to Bugzilla, read our
-Contributor's Guide at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/contributor.html
-
-
-Important Updates In This Point Release
-***************************************
-
-This section describes bugs fixed in releases after the original 2.22
-release.
-
-Version 2.22.2
---------------
-
-+ Make Bugzilla compatible with Template Toolkit 2.15 (bug 357374)
-
-+ Make Bugzilla compatible with versions of MySQL higher than 5.0.25
- (bug 321645)
-
-+ Sanity Check can now only be run by people with the "admin" privilege.
- (bug 91761)
-
-Version 2.22.1
---------------
-
-+ When sending mail, Bugzilla could throw the error "Insecure dependency in
- exec while running with -T switch" (bug 340538).
-
-+ Using the public webdot server (for dependency graphs) should work
- again (bug 351243).
-
-+ The "I'm added to or removed from this capacity" email preference
- wasn't working for new bugs (bug 349852).
-
-+ The original release of 2.22 incorrectly said it required Template-Toolkit
- version 2.08. In actual fact, Bugzilla requires version 2.10 (bug 351478).
-
-+ votes.cgi would crash if your bug was the one confirming a bug (bug 351300).
-
-+ checksetup.pl now correctly reports if your Template::Plugin::GD module
- is missing. If missing, it could lead to charts and graphs not working
- (bug 345389).
-
-+ The "Keyword" field on buglist.cgi was not sorted alphabetically, so
- it wasn't very useful for sorting (bug 342828).
-
-+ Sendmail will no longer complain about there being a newline in the
- email address, when Bugzilla sends mail (bug 331365).
-
-+ contrib/bzdbcopy.pl would try to insert an invalid value into the
- database, unnecessarily (bug 335572).
-
-+ Deleting a bug now correctly deletes its attachments from the database
- (bug 339667).
-
-
-Minimum Requirements
-********************
-
-Perl
-----
-
- Perl v5.6.1 (Non-Windows platforms)
- ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
-
- Note that this is the last release of Bugzilla to support perl 5.6.x--
- future versions will require perl 5.8.
-
-For MySQL Users
----------------
-
- MySQL v4.0.14 (changed from 2.20)
- perl module: DBD::mysql v2.9003 (changed from 2.18)
-
-For PostgreSQL Users
---------------------
-
- PostgreSQL 7.3.x
- perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 (1.41 required for PostgreSQL 8+)
-
- WARNING: DBD::Pg 1.43 has a bug which causes checksetup.pl to fail
- and corrupt the database. If you are using DBD::Pg 1.43, either downgrade
- to 1.41 or upgrade to 1.45 (1.42 and 1.44 seem broken somehow too).
-
- Note that this is the last release of Bugzilla to support PostgreSQL 7.x.
- Future versions will require PostgreSQL 8.0 and DBD::Pg 1.45.
-
-Required Perl Modules
----------------------
-
- AppConfig v1.52
- CGI v2.93
- Data::Dumper (any)
- Date::Format v2.21
- DBI v1.38
- File::Spec v0.84
- File::Temp (any)
- Template Toolkit v2.10 (changed from 2.20)
- Text::Wrap v2001.0131
- Mail::Mailer v1.67 (changed from 2.20)
- MIME::Base64 v3.01 (new in 2.22)
- MIME::Parser v5.406 (new in 2.22)
- Storable (any)
-
- Note: The SMTP support in Mail::Mailer 1.73 (the most recent version)
- is broken. The last known working version is 1.67.
-
-Optional Perl Modules
----------------------
-
- Chart::Base v1.0
- GD v1.20
- GD::Graph (any)
- GD::Text::Align (any)
- Net::LDAP (any)
- PatchReader v0.9.4
- XML::Twig (any) (new in 2.22)
- Image::Magick (new in 2.22)
-
-
-What's New?
-***********
-
-Complete PostgreSQL Support
----------------------------
-Bugzilla 2.20 contained experimental support for PostgreSQL.
-In Bugzilla 2.22, PostgreSQL support is fully complete and stable. Using
-PostgreSQL with Bugzilla should be as stable as using MySQL, and if
-you experience any problems they will be taken as seriously as if you
-were running MySQL.
-
-There are no known remaining major problems with Bugzilla on PostgreSQL.
-All features of Bugzilla have been tested and work.
-
-
-Parameters In Sections
-----------------------
-Long-time users of Bugzilla know that over time the parameter list has
-grown quite large. It has now been split into sections to make it easier
-to use.
-
-
-One Codebase, Multiple Databases
---------------------------------
-There is now limited support for having multiple projects use the
-same Bugzilla codebase, but all have separate databases.
-
-The different projects can have their own templates and their own
-bug database, but all use the same set of Bugzilla code in the same
-directory.
-
-To enable this, set an environment variable called PROJECT when
-calling the Bugzilla CGIs. Then for each project, you can have
-a localconfig.PROJECT (where "PROJECT" is the value of the PROJECT
-environment variable) file for the database parameters, and a
-template/en/PROJECT directory (where "PROJECT" is the value of the
-PROJECT environment variable)
-
-This feature isn't documented yet, but we hope to have documentation for
-it soon.
-
-
-UTF-8 For New Installations
----------------------------
-If this is the first time you're installing Bugzilla, it will now use
-UTF-8 encoding for all pages, automatically. It will also send emails
-in UTF-8. This eliminates most of the internationalization problems
-users have experienced, as one Bugzilla page may now contain any number
-of languages simultaneously.
-
-If you are upgrading and you want to use UTF-8, just turn on the "utf8"
-Parameter. However, realize that if you have non-UTF-8 data in your
-Bugzilla, it will appear unreadable. (If you just have ASCII in your
-database, you're safe to turn on the "utf8" parameter, definitely.)
-
-
-Admins Can Impersonate Users
-----------------------------
-User impersonation (think of the su/sudo command on Unix) allows you
-to view pages and perform actions as if you are logged in as someone else,
-without having to know their password.
-
-A user in the new "bz_sudoers" group has the option of "becoming"
-any user in Bugzilla. Once they "become" that user, they *are* that user
-for the rest of the session, until they decide to switch back to being
-themselves.
-
-However, they cannot "become" any user in the "bz_sudo_protect" group.
-This group includes everybody in the "admin" and "bz_sudoers" groups by
-default.
-
-Any time a user is impersonated, they will get an email notifying them
-who has impersonated them.
-
-
-Bug Import and Moving Improvements
-----------------------------------
-The XML Import script, importxml.pl, has been completely re-written.
-
-It now:
-
- * Correctly imports the "priority" field
- * Understands when the "Reporter" or "CC List" security boxes
- are unchecked on the bug.
- * Places bugs in the appropriate groups
- * Allows attachments to be imported
- * Is much more forgiving about small problems in the XML
-
-
-Adding Individual Bugs to Saved Searches (Tagging)
---------------------------------------------------
-Users now have the option of adding an individual bug to any
-particular Saved Search. Individual users that disagree with the site
-default can add or remove this feature (which appears as an entry box
-visible in the footer) by changing the General Preferences setting
-called "Enable tags for bugs".
-
-
-Attach URLs
------------
-Instead of attaching a file, you can now also attach a URL to a bug.
-This will show up just like an attachment on show_bug.cgi, but when
-you click on it, it will take you to the URL.
-
-To enable this, turn on the "allow_attach_url" parameter.
-
-
-Optional "Strict Isolation" for Groups
---------------------------------------
-If you turn on the "strict_isolation" parameter in Bugzilla, you
-will *not* be able to add any user to the CC field (or set them
-as an Assignee or QA Contact) unless that user could normally see
-the bug. That is, you will no longer be able to "accidentally"
-(or intentionally) give somebody access to a bug that they
-otherwise couldn't see.
-
-
-"editcomponents" Change
------------------------
-Previously, all users who had "editcomponents" could see every Product,
-using the editcomponents.cgi script. Now, users with "editcomponents"
-can only see Products that they normally have access to.
-
-This restriction also affects editversions.cgi, editmilestones.cgi and
-editproducts.cgi.
-
-
-"shutdownhtml" Change
----------------------
-All of Bugzilla is now affected by the "shutdownhtml" parameter,
-including command-line scripts. checksetup.pl is exempt. Many scripts
-(such as collectstats.pl and whine.pl) will just exit silently when
-"shutdownhtml" is turned on.
-
-
-Miscellaneous Improvements
---------------------------
-
-- Added a frequently-requested user preference for whether or not to go
- to the next bug in your list after submitting changes to a bug.
-
-- The ability to do relative date searches (like "1d" for "1 day" or "1w"
- for "1 week") by hour now, in addition to days and other units of time.
-
-- "Alias" added to the New Bug form, for users with editbugs.
-
-- Users can now actually see the descriptions of flags that you enter
- in editflagtypes.cgi. The description will appear as a tooltip
- when a user places their mouse over the flag name on show_bug.cgi.
-
-- Bugzilla will optionally convert BMP attachments into PNGs for you.
- See the "convert_uncompressed_images" in the "Attachments" section
- of the Parameters.
-
-- You can now edit the Status Whiteboard when you are changing multiple
- bugs at once.
-
-- The way that groups work in the database has changed, and large-scale
- Bugzilla use with many concurrent users should be much faster, as a
- result. (Technical Details: The need for Bugzilla to "derive groups"
- has gone away pretty much entirely.)
-
-- Performance improvements on searching attachment information that's not
- the actual content of the attachment (such as searching the Attachment
- Description or the Attachment MIME Type)
-
-- You can now specify multiple email addresses, comma-separated, when
- setting the requestee of a flag, and it will set the flag once for each
- of those email addresses
-
-- "Bug Creation Time" is now searchable in the Boolean Charts.
-
-- When you mark a comment on a bug as private, the background color
- of the comment will change immediately. However, in order for
- Bugzilla to register that the comment is now private, you still
- have to "submit" the changes.
-
-- Emails sent from Bugzilla now have "X-Bugzilla-Keywords" and
- "X-Bugzilla-Severity" by default, containing the information
- from the related Bugzilla fields.
-
-- You can now change the assignee and QA contact on multiple bugs at
- once even when those bugs are in different products.
-
-- contrib/merge-users.pl allows you to merge two user accounts. This is
- particulary useful when a user opened several accounts and only one should
- be kept. It also lets you merge a deleted account with an existing one.
-
-All Changes
------------
-
-If you'd like to see all the changes between Bugzilla 2.20 and Bugzilla
-2.22, see:
-
-http://tinyurl.com/9p2tm
-
-
-Deprecated Features
-*******************
-
-- This is the last release of Bugzilla to support perl 5.6.x. All future
- versions of Bugzilla will require at least perl 5.8.
-
- This is the last release of Bugzilla to support PostgreSQL 7.x. Future
- releases using PostgreSQL will require PostgreSQL 8.0 and DBD::Pg 1.45.
-
-Outstanding Issues
-******************
-
-- bug 305836: PostgreSQL users: do not use DBD::Pg version 1.43 with
- Bugzilla. It has a bug which can corrupt the database. Version 1.41
- is fine. Version 1.45 or higher is fine too.
-
-- (No Bug Number) VERY IMPORTANT: If you have customized the values in
- your Status/Resolution field, you must edit checksetup.pl BEFORE YOU
- RUN IT. Find the line that starts like this:
-
- bug_status => ["UNCONFIRMED",
-
- That's where you set the values for the Status field.
-
- resolution => ["","FIXED",
-
- And that's where you set values for the Resolution field.
-
- Those are both near line 1826 in checksetup.pl.
-
- If you forget to do this, you will have to manually edit the "bug_status"
- and "resolution" tables in the database to contain the correct values.
-
-- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
- New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
- only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
- Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
- the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
- restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
- for the Product changes.
-
-- bug 37765: If you use the "sendmail" support of Bugzilla,
- and you use an MTA which is *not* Sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim, etc.)
- make sure the "sendmailnow" parameter is ON or Bugzilla will not send
- e-mail correctly.
-
-- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
- need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
- the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
- up properly in search results.
-
-- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
- example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
- option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
- may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
- Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
-
-- Bug 99215: Flags are not protected by "mid-air collision" detection.
- Nor are any attachment changes.
-
-- Bug 89822: When changing multiple bugs at the same time, there is no
- "mid-air collision" protection.
-
-- bug 322955: The email interface (bug_mail.pl) in the contrib/ directory
- has not been maintained (as it has no maintainer), and does not work
- properly. We hope to have this fixed in our next major release of
- Bugzilla; however, any help or contributions in this area are very
- welcome.
-
-
-How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
-*************************************
-
-NOTE: Upgrading from a large installation (over 10,000 bugs) running 2.18
- or before may take a significant amount of time. checksetup will
- try to let you know how long it will take, but expect downtime
- of an hour or more if you have many bugs, many attachments,
- or many users.
-
-Steps for Upgrading
--------------------
-
-1) Read these entire Release Notes, particularly the "Outstanding Issues"
- and "Security Fixes" sections.
-
-2) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
- upgrading. Attempt to fix all warnings that the page produces before
- you go any further, or you may experience problems during your upgrade.
-
-3) Make a backup of the Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps
- by using mysqldump. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. If anything goes wrong
- during the upgrade, your installation can be corrupted beyond
- recovery. Having a backup keeps you safe.
-
- Example:
-
- mysqldump -u root -p bugs > bugs-db.sql
-
-4) Replace the files in your installation with the new version of Bugzilla,
- or you can try to use CVS to upgrade. The bugzilla.org website has
- instructions on how to do the actual installation.
-
- You can also use a brand-new Bugzilla directory, as long as you
- copy over the old data/ directory and the "localconfig" file to the
- new installation.
-
-5) Run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
-
-7) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
-
-8) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
- immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
- correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
- an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
- database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
- it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
- version.
-
-9) This version of Bugzilla contains improvements to the email that
- Bugzilla sends when a bug is changed. The template for that email
- is contained in the "newchangedmail" parameter. If you would like
- to take advantage of the email enhancements in this version of
- Bugzilla, reset that parameter to its default. (You can customize
- it after that again, if you want.)
-
-
-Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
-********************************************
-
-CGI.pl is Gone
---------------
-The CGI.pl file, which used to contain many global functions, and which
-also contained initialization code for every CGI, is gone. The functions
-have been moved to various places and sometimes renamed.
-
-The initialization code that used to happen inside CGI.pl is now inside
-of Bugzilla.pm. All CGIs must "use Bugzilla" in one way or another. (Some
-CGIs "use Bugzilla" by doing "require globals.pl".)
-
-
-Deriving Groups No Longer Happens
----------------------------------
-Bugzilla no longer needs to "derive groups" in advance. That is, previously
-Bugzilla used to flatten the group heirarchy into the user_group_map
-table. (That is, show that a user was in every group they were in,
-even if they were only in that group because they belonged to *another*
-group.) Now the table only contains groups that the user is in directly,
-and groups that they are in because of a regexp.
-
-Instead, The Bugzilla::User->group function determines the groups a user
-is in when called.
-
-We did this because the group derivation was causing a lot of complexity
-in the code, and also deriving the groups was a slow process that
-frequently had to happen inside of a database lock while sending mail
-or viewing a bug list.
-
-See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304583 for details.
-
-
-Other Changes
--------------
-
-- The move.pl script's functionality has been merged into process_bug.cgi.
-
-- $::template and $::vars are gone from globals.pl. Instead of $::template,
- use Bugzilla->template. Every script creates the $vars variable by itself
- instead of using a global $::vars variable.
-
-- $::userid is gone. Instead use Bugzilla->user->id.
-
-- QuickSearch is now in perl instead of in JavaScript. The code is in
- Bugzilla/Search/QuickSearch.pm. This makes it much easier to customize,
- and it also fixes some long-standing issues that QuickSearch had.
-
-- Attachment data is now in the attach_data table. Other information
- about attachments is still in the "attachments" table.
-
-- Much like the 2.20 release, many functions have been removed from
- globals.pl and CGI.pl. They were moved elsewhere and renamed.
- Search RESOLVED bugs in bugzilla.mozilla.org for the old
- version of the function name, and that will usually show you
- the bug where we moved the function, allowing you to find out
- what the new name and location is.
-
-- This is the last release that contains the deprecated
- SendSQL, SqlQuote, FetchSqlData, MoreSqlData, and FetchOneColumn
- functions. Instead, you should use DBI functions. For a very brief
- example, see:
-
- http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html#sql-sendreceive
-
-
-Security Fixes in 2.22 Releases
-*******************************
-
-A long-standing, well-known security issue is finally resolved in Bugzilla
-2.22: Previously, the "Session ID" of each user could be easily guessed,
-given enough time. This could have allowed an attacker to take over a
-user's account, in certain circumstances. Now, the "Session ID" is totally
-random, resolving this issue. See bug 119524 in bugzilla.mozilla.org for
-details.
-
-If you are very concerned about the security of your Bugzilla installation,
-it would be a very good idea to run the following command on your
-database immediately after upgrading:
-
-TRUNCATE TABLE logincookies;
-
-This is actually safe to do at any time--it just forces a logout of
-every single user, even those with saved sessions. (It invalidates
-every login cookie Bugzilla has ever given out.)
-
-Version 2.22.2
---------------
-
-A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability is fixed in Bugzilla 2.22.2. You can
-read the details of the fix at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.20.3/
-
-Version 2.22.1
---------------
-
-The Bugzilla team fixed two Information Leaks and three Cross-Site
-Scripting vulnerabilities that existed in versions of Bugzilla
-prior to 2.22.1. We strongly recommend that you update any 2.22
-installation to 2.22.1, to be protected from these vulnerabilities.
-
-In addition, we have made an enhancement to security in this version
-of Bugzilla. In previous versions, it was possible for malicious
-users to exploit administrators in certain ways. Although this has
-never happened (to our knowledge) in the real world, we thought it
-was important that we protect administrators from this sort of attack.
-
-You can see details on all the vulnerabilities and enhancements at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.18.5/
-
-
-Release Notes For Previous Versions
-************************************
-
-***************************************
-*** The Bugzilla 2.20 Release Notes ***
-***************************************
-
-Table of Contents
-*****************
-
-- Introduction
-- Important Updates in this Point Release
- * Version 2.20.1
- * Version 2.20.2
-- Minimum Requirements
- * Perl
- * For MySQL Users
- * For PostgreSQL Users
- * Required Perl Modules
- * Optional Perl Modules
-- What's New?
- * Experimental PostgreSQL Support
- * New User-Interface Color/Style
- * Higher-Level Categorization of Bugs (above "Product")
- * Regular Reports by Email of Complex Queries ("Whining")
- * "Environment Variable" Authentication Method
- * User-List Drop-Down Menus
- * Server-Side Comment Wrapping
- * UI for Editing Priority, OS, Platform, and Severity
- * Bugzilla Queries as RSS
- * Choice of E-Mail Sending Methods
- * "User Preferences"
- * "Large Attachment" Storage
- * "User Visibility" Controls
- * Miscellaneous Improvements
- * All Changes
-- Deprecated Features
-- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
-- How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
- * Steps for Upgrading
-- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
- * The New Database-Compatibility Layer
- * If You Customize Your Database...
- * Many Functions Renamed
- * User Preferences
- * Other Changes
-- Security Fixes In 2.20 Releases
-- Release Notes for Previous Versions
-
-
-Introduction
-************
-
-This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.20.
-In this document, recently added, changed, and removed features
-of Bugzilla are described. If you are upgrading from an older version,
-you will definitely want to read these release notes in detail, so that
-you have an idea of what has changed.
-
-If you are upgrading from a version before 2.18, also read the 2.18 release
-notes (lower in this file) and any previous release notes.
-
-If you are installing a new Bugzilla, you will still want to look over
-the release notes to see if there is any particularly important information
-that affects your installation.
-
-The 2.20 release has had about nine months of development since 2.18, but
-they were nearly the most active nine months in Bugzilla's history. We hope
-that users will appreciate our many external changes, and that Bugzilla
-administators will find that our internal changes make their lives easier.
-
-If you would like to contribute code to Bugzilla, read our
-Contributor's Guide at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/contributor.html
-
-
-Important Updates In This Point Release
-***************************************
-
-Version 2.20.1
---------------
-
-+ Many PostgreSQL fixes, including fixing whine.pl on Pg 8
- (bug 301062) and fixing the --regenerate option of collectstats.pl
- for all versions of Pg (bug 316971). However, users who want full
- PostgreSQL support are encouraged to use the 2.22 series, as
- certain PostgreSQL bugs were discovered that will not be fixed
- in 2.20 (their fixes were too complex).
-
-+ In Bugzilla 2.20, the "administrator" user created by checksetup.pl
- would not ever be sent email, because their email preferences were
- left blank. This has been fixed for 2.20.1. However, if you created
- this administrative user with Bugzilla 2.20, make sure to go back
- and enable their Email Preferences. (bug 317489)
-
-+ The bzdbcopy.pl script mentioned in these release notes
- has now actually been checked-in to the 2.20 branch, and so
- it's included in this release. (bug 291776)
-
-+ When there's only one Classification, you now won't be required
- to pick a Classification on bug entry. (bug 311489)
-
-+ You can no longer add dependencies on bugs you can't see.
- (bug 141593)
-
-+ The CC list is included in "New" bug emails, again. (bug 313661)
-
-+ In the original 2.20, certain scripts were not correctly using
- the "shadow database," if it was specified. This has been fixed
- in 2.20.1. (bug 313695)
-
-+ "Saved Searches" that were saved before Bugzilla 2.20, would throw
- an error if they contained "Days Since Bug Changed." as part of their
- criteria. This has been fixed in Bugzilla 2.20.1. (bug 302599)
-
-+ You can now successfully delete a product even when Target Milestones
- are turned off. (bug 317025)
-
-+ checksetup.pl now correctly pre-compiles templates for languages other
- than English. (bug 304417)
-
-+ The "All Closed" chart that is created by default in New Charts
- now actually represents all closed bugs, and not all bugs in the
- product. (bug 300473)
-
-+ CSV bug lists with more than 1000 dates now work properly. (bug 257813)
-
-+ Various bugs with upgrading from previous versions of Bugzilla
- have been fixed. (bug 307662, bug 311047, bug 310108)
-
-+ Many, many other bug fixes. See http://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html
- for details on what was fixed between 2.20 and 2.20.1.
-
-
-Version 2.20.2
---------------
-
-+ Adding a new attachment and taking the bug at the same time does not
- create a referential integrity problem anymore if the bug was marked as
- a duplicate (bug 332705).
-
-+ Some additional admin links have been added to the sidebar (bug 282613).
-
-+ A new test has been added to our test suite, named 012throwables.t.
- It will now make sure that all tags used in ThrowUserError() and
- ThrowCodeError() are defined, and that there are no unused tags (bug 312042).
-
-+ whine.pl now works correctly on MySQL 4.0. MySQL 4.1 is not affected
- (bug 327348).
-
-+ contrib/merge-users.pl allows you to merge two user accounts. This is
- especially useful when a user opened several accounts and only one
- should be kept (bug 188264).
-
-+ The login form on index.cgi again works correctly on a fresh installation
- (bug 328108).
-
-+ Email preferences are now set correctly when creating a new user account
- using the ENV method (bug 327355).
-
-
-Minimum Requirements
-********************
-
-Perl
-----
-
- Perl v5.6.1 (changed from 2.18) (Non-Windows platforms)
- ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
-
-For MySQL Users
----------------
-
- MySQL v3.23.41 (Note: 2.22 will require MySQL 4.x)
- perl module: DBD::mysql v2.9003 (changed from 2.18)
-
-For PostgreSQL Users (new in 2.20)
---------------------
-
- PostgreSQL 7.3.x (8.x has received less testing)
- perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 (1.41 required for PostgreSQL 8+)
-
-Required Perl Modules
----------------------
-
- AppConfig v1.52
- CGI v2.93
- Data::Dumper (any)
- Date::Format v2.21
- DBI v1.38 (changed from 2.18)
- File::Spec v0.84 (changed from 2.18)
- File::Temp (any)
- Template Toolkit v2.08
- Text::Wrap v2001.0131
- Mail::Mailer 1.65 (new in 2.20)
- Storable (any) (new in 2.20)
-
-Optional Perl Modules
----------------------
-
- Chart::Base v1.0
- GD v1.20
- GD::Graph (any)
- GD::Text::Align (any)
- Net::LDAP (any)
- PatchReader v0.9.4
- XML::Parser (any)
-
-
-What's New?
-***********
-
-Experimental PostgreSQL Support
--------------------------------
-
-In addition to MySQL, Bugzilla now also supports PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL
-support is still somewhat experimental. Although most major features of
-Bugzilla work on PostgreSQL in 2.20, there are probably still a few bugs
-that need to be worked out.
-
-PostgreSQL support in 2.20 is acceptable for smaller production
-environments that don't mind running into a bug or two now and then.
-
-
-New User-Interface Color/Style
-------------------------------
-
-You'll notice that Bugzilla looks a bit nicer, now! We've made a few
-color and style changes to update the overall "feel" of Bugzilla's
-User Inteface. We plan to do even more work on the UI for 2.22.
-
-
-Higher-Level Categorization of Bugs (above "Product")
------------------------------------------------------
-
-Previous Bugzillas had "Products" that you could file bugs in,
-and "Components" for those products. Now, "Products" can be grouped
-into "Classifications."
-
-To enable this, a Bugzilla administrator can turn on the
-"useclassification" parameter, using editparams.cgi.
-
-
-Regular Reports by Email of Complex Queries ("Whining")
--------------------------------------------------------
-
-You can now tell Bugzilla to do a specific query (or set of queries)
-every X minutes/hours/days, and send you the results by email. This is
-great for keeping track on a daily basis of what's going on in
-your Bugzilla.
-
-
-"Environment Variable" Authentication Method
---------------------------------------------
-
-You can now tell Bugzilla to accept a certain value passed in from
-Apache as authentication for Bugzilla users. This means that Bugzilla
-now "supports" any type of authentication that Apache supports.
-
-To use this, set the "user_info_class" parameter to "ENV" and, at a
-minimum, set the "auth_env_email" parameter to the name of the
-Environment variable that passes the authenticated user (usually
-"REMOTE_USER"). If your webserver knows users' real names as well, also
-set the "auth_env_realname" parameter. If you are using a true
-single-signon system that assigns an identifier uniquely to an
-individual, even across changes of email address, then set
-"auth_env_id" to the name of that variable.
-
-
-User-List Drop-Down Menus
--------------------------
-
-Now, anywhere in Bugzilla where you previously had to type in an
-email address by hand, you have the choice of having Bugzilla instead
-display a drop-down menu of users to pick from.
-
-This feature is best for small installations with few users, because
-on large installations the list grows too large to be useful.
-
-To enable the feature, turn on the "usemenuforusers" parameter in
-editparams.cgi.
-
-
-Server-Side Comment Wrapping
-----------------------------
-
-In older Bugzillas, comments were wrapped to 80 characters by the
-user's web browser, and then stored in the database that way. This caused
-problems because some browsers did not wrap comments properly.
-
-Now, Bugzilla stores comments unwrapped and wraps them at display time, so
-all new comments should be properly wrapped. Also, when you upgrade, Bugzilla
-will look for old "mis-wrapped" comments and attempt to wrap them properly.
-
-Lines beginning with the ">" character are assumed to be quotes, and are
-*not* wrapped.
-
-
-UI for Editing Priority, OS, Platform, and Severity
----------------------------------------------------
-
-Bugzilla now has a User Interface for adding and removing values
-from the OS, Platform, Priority, and Severity fields. You can also
-rename values. Any user in the "editcomponents" group can click
-on the "Field Values" link in their page footer to edit these fields.
-
-Also, the default list of choices for OS and Platform for new
-installations is now much smaller. Old installations will keep
-the same list they have now.
-
-
-Bugzilla Queries as RSS
------------------------
-
-You can now view a Bugzilla query as valid RSS 1.0. This means that you
-could add a particular query to your RSS aggregator, if you wanted, to
-keep track of changes in Bugzilla.
-
-To see a query as RSS, just click on the "RSS" link on the bottom of
-your query results. Your query must return at least 1 result in order
-for you to see the link.
-
-
-Choice of E-Mail Sending Methods
---------------------------------
-
-Bugzilla now uses perl's Mail::Mailer to send e-mail. This means that
-you have several choices of how Bugzilla can send email. By default, it
-still uses sendmail, but it can also use SMTP, qmail, or send all email
-to a file instead of out to users.
-
-A Bugzilla administrator can change which method is used by setting the
-"mail_delivery_method" parameter in editparams.cgi.
-
-
-"User Preferences"
-------------------
-
-Bugzilla users will now notice a section in their Preferences called
-"General Preferences." Administrators will notice a new link called
-"User Preferences."
-
-The Preferences system allows Bugzilla developers to specify arbitrary
-"user preferences" that change the behavior of certain parts of Bugzilla.
-Administrators can control whether or not users are allowed to use these
-preferences, and what the default settings are for a user who is not
-logged in.
-
-The first two preferences that we have implemented are:
- + "Show a quip at the top of each bug list"
- + "When viewing a bug, show comments in this order..."
-
-We plan to implement more preferences in the future.
-
-
-"Large Attachment" Storage
---------------------------
-
-Bugzilla can now store very large attachments on disk instead of in the
-database. These attachments can't be searched with Boolean Charts, but
-they also don't take up database space, and they can be deleted individually
-by the admin.
-
-When uploading an attachment, a user chooses if it's a "Big File." If so,
-it's stored on the disk instead of in the database.
-
-To enable this feature, set the "maxlocalattachmentsize" parameter to
-a non-zero value, in editparams.cgi.
-
-
-"User Visibility" Controls
---------------------------
-
-It is now possible to prevent users from encountering all other users when
-using user-matching or drop-down userlists. To enable this restriction,
-enable the "usevisibilitygroups" parameter. Once this is enabled, each
-group's permissions will include a new column for "visible." The members
-of any group for which the group being edited is visible will be
-able to user-match this groups's users or see them in dropdown lists.
-
-This does not control who a user can CC on a bug, only who they can
-see in the user-matching lists or drop-downs.
-
-Miscellaneous Improvements
---------------------------
-
-- Marking an attachment as obsolete will now cancel all pending flag
- requests for that attachment. That is, any flag that was set to "?"
- on that attachment will be cleared.
-
-- You can now see which users are "watching" you, on the email
- preferences page.
-
-- You can tell Bugzilla to mark certain comments in a different
- color by adding "&mark=1,2,3,5-7" to the end of the show_bug.cgi URL,
- where "1,2,3,5-7" means "highlight comment 1, comment 2, comment 3, and
- comments 5 through 7."
-
-- "QA Contact" now also appears on the New Bug page, if QA Contacts are
- enabled on your installation.
-
-- Bugzilla email now has the "In-Reply-To" header added to it, so if
- you use an email client that supports threads, you can view your
- Bugzilla email in threads. If you are upgrading to a new version of
- Bugzilla, and you want this support, please see the instructions at:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=172267
-
-- The email preferences system has been slightly updated. You will notice
- the changes on your Email Preferences page.
-
-- You can now negate individual "boolean charts" (in the
- "Advanced Searching" section at the bottom of the "Advanced
- Search" page). That is, you can add "NOT" to the front of them.
-
-- You can add the words %assignee%, %reporter%, %user% (yourself), or
- %qacontact% on the right-hand side of a Boolean Chart. For example, you
- could make a Boolean Chart which said "Reporter" "does not equal"
- "%assignee%". That would give you all bugs where the Reporter was not
- the same as the Assignee.
-
-- You can now search Boolean Charts by "commenter."
-
-- If you have a group with no name, it will be re-named to "group_#" where
- "#" is the numeric Bugzilla Group ID for that group.
-
-- If you are using time-tracking, you can now see a report of time spent
- on bugs using summarize_time.cgi.
-
-- If you are using time-tracking, bugzilla will now set "hours remaining"
- to "0" automatically if you RESOLVE a bug, whether you are in the
- time-tracking group or not.
-
-
-Deprecated Features
-*******************
-
-- Bugzilla 2.20 is the last Bugzilla version to support MySQL 3.23.x.
- Starting with Bugzilla 2.22, Bugzilla will require MySQL 4.0.x. This will
- allow Bugzilla to take advantage of the advanced features of MySQL 4.
-
-
-Outstanding Issues
-******************
-
-- (No Bug Number) VERY IMPORTANT: If you have customized the values in
- your Status/Resolution field, you must edit checksetup.pl BEFORE YOU
- RUN IT. Find the line that starts like this:
-
- bug_status => ["UNCONFIRMED",
-
- That's where you set the values for the Status field.
-
- resolution => ["","FIXED",
-
- And that's where you set values for the Resolution field.
-
- Those are both near line 1826 in checksetup.pl.
-
- If you forget to do this, you will have to manually edit the "bug_status"
- and "resolution" tables in the database to contain the correct values.
-
-- bug 37765: VERY IMPORTANT: If you use the "sendmail" support of Bugzilla,
- and you use an MTA which is *not* Sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim, etc.)
- you MUST turn on the "sendmailnow" parameter or Bugzilla will not send
- e-mail correctly.
-
-- (No Bug Number) If you close your web browser while the process_bug.cgi
- or post_bug.cgi screen is running, not all emails will be sent, and
- the next time that that bug is updated, there will be two updates. This
- is because of a behavior of Apache that is beyond our control.
-
-- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
- New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
- only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
- Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
- the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
- restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
- for the Product changes. This will not be fixed in the 2.20 branch.
-
-- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
- need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
- the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
- up properly in search results.
-
-- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
- example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
- option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
- may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
- Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
-
-- If at any time you upgraded from a version of Bugzilla between 2.17.4 -
- 2.17.7 to either 2.18rc3 or 2.19.1, you must manually fix your New Charts in
- order for them to work. See the following link for instructions on how to do
- this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276237#c18
- If you are using 2.18rc3, but did not upgrade from version 2.17.4 or newer,
- then you don't need to do this.
-
-- (No Bug Number) If your DBI is really, really old, Bugzilla might fail
- with a strange error message when you try to run checksetup.pl. Try
- upgrading your DBI using: perl -MCPAN -e'install DBI'
-
-- Bug 126266: Bugzilla does not use UTF-8 to display pages. This means
- that if you enter non-ASCII characters into Bugzilla, they may
- display strangely, or Bugzilla may have other problems. For a workaround,
- see: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/html/security-bugzilla.html
- This has been fixed in the 2.22 series.
-
-- Bug 99215: Flags are not protected by "mid-air collision" detection.
- Nor are any attachment changes.
-
-- Bug 89822: When changing multiple bugs at the same time, there is no
- "mid-air collision" protection.
-
-- Bug 285614: importxml.pl may be broken in many different ways.
- It has been fixed and completely re-written in the 2.22 series.
-
-- (No Bug Number) Note that the email interface (bug_mail.pl) in the
- contrib/ directory has not been maintained (as it has no maintainer),
- and so may not be working properly. Contributions are welcome, if
- anybody would like to work on it.
-
-
-Upgrading From An Older Bugzilla
-************************************
-
-NOTE: Running checksetup.pl to upgrade a large installation (over 10,000 bugs)
- may take a significant amount of time. checksetup will try to let
- you know how long it will take, but expect downtime of an hour or
- more if you have many bugs, many attachments, or many users.
-
-Steps for Upgrading
--------------------
-
-1) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
- upgrading. Attempt to fix all warnings that the page produces before
- you go any further, or you may experience problems during your upgrade.
-
-2) Make a backup of the Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps
- by using mysqldump.
-
- Example:
-
- mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup
-
-3) Replace the files in your installation with the new version of Bugzilla,
- or you can try to use CVS to upgrade. The Bugzilla.org website has
- instructions on how to do the actual installation.
-
-4) Make sure that you run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
-
-5) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
-
-6) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
- immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
- correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
- an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
- database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
- it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
- version.
-
-7) If you want threading support on your Bugzilla email (see the
- "Miscellaneous Improvements" section above for a description),
- you need to follow the instructions at:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=172267
-
-
-Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
-********************************************
-
-The New Database-Compatibility Layer
-------------------------------------
-
-For most customizations, this should have no effect. However, you should
-be aware that Bugzilla->dbh is now an instance of "Bugzilla::DB" instead
-of being a DBI object directly. In fact, it's actually a
-Bugzilla::DB::Mysql for MySQL users, and a Bugzilla::DB::Pg for
-PostgreSQL users.
-
-Anything called from $dbh (like $dbh->bz_last_key) that starts with
-"bz_" or "sql_" is a custom Bugzilla function. Anything *not* starting
-with those two prefixes is a normal DBI function.
-
-Methods whose names start with "sql_" generate a piece of a SQL statement.
-They generate the correct version of the statement for whichever database
-you are using.
-
-Methods whose names start with "bz_" do something directly.
-
-You can see more documentation about this at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.20/pod/Bugzilla/DB.pm
-
-
-If You Customize Your Database...
----------------------------------
-
-In order to support multiple databases, we had to do something sort of
-tricky. Bugzilla now stores what it *thinks* the current database schema
-is, in a table called bz_schema.
-
-This means that when checksetup changes the database, it updates the
-bz_schema table. When *you* update the database, without using
-checksetup to do it, the bz_schema table is *not* updated.
-
-So, if you're going to add/remove a new column/table to Bugzilla, or if you're
-going to change the definition of a column, try to do it by adding code to
-checksetup in the correct place. (It's one of the places where you find
-the word "--TABLE--".)
-
-You can see the documentation on the $dbh functions used to do this at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.20/pod/Bugzilla/DB.pm#schema_modification_methods
-
-
-Many Functions Renamed
-----------------------
-
-We are reorganizing the Bugzilla code so that it can support mod_perl. As
-part of this, we are moving all functions out of globals.pl and CGI.pl, and
-into modules in the Bugzilla/ directory.
-
-Sometimes when we moved them, we also renamed them. The new Bugzilla standard
-is to have functions_named_like_this, instead of FunctionsNamedLikeThis.
-
-So if you were using a FunctionNamedLikeThis that no longer works, try just
-using it as function_named_like_this. If that doesn't work, you may have to
-search for where we put it, and what we renamed it to. Most of the functions
-moved to logical places.
-
-If you really can't find it, search bugzilla.mozilla.org using the name
-of the old function. We usually moved one function per bug, so the new
-name will be somewhere in a bug report.
-
-
-User Preferences
-----------------
-
-Bugzilla now has a "User Preferences" system! These preferences are stored
-in the database, and specified by a Bugzilla developer. The Bugzilla
-developers actually call these "settings," but we called them "User
-Preferences" in the UI to make things clearer.
-
-You access a user's settings differently depending on if you are in a
-.cgi file or in a template file:
-
-CGI: Bugzilla->user->settings->{'setting_name'}->value
-Template: Bugzilla.user.settings.setting_name.value
-
-Where "setting_name" is the name of the setting. You can see the current
-setting names in the "setting" table in the database.
-
-Remember that sometimes you may want to check a user's settings when
-making a customization.
-
-To see how to add new settings, search for "add_setting" in checksetup.pl.
-Also see the template: template/en/default/global/setting-descs.none.tmpl.
-
-Other Changes
--------------
-
-- The $::unconfirmedstate variable has been replaced by the actual string
- "UNCONFIRMED" everywhere in Bugzilla code.
-
-- The %::FORM and %::MFORM variables are no longer used to access form
- data. Instead, use $cgi->param(). There are many examples of how to do
- this, all over the Bugzilla code.
-
-- SendSQL() and related calls are deprecated, and the various $dbh methods
- should be used instead, such as $dbh->prepare() and $dbh->execute().
- Bugzilla->dbh is the $dbh handle to use. For more information on how
- to use the $dbh methods, see: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm
-
-- The $::userid variable will be going away. Use Bugzilla->user->id instead.
-
-- All global variables (any that start with $::, @::, or %::) will
- be entirely gone by Bugzilla 2.24.
-
-
-Security Fixes in 2.20 Releases
-*******************************
-
-2.20.1
-------
-
-There were three security issues discovered after the release of
-Bugzilla 2.20 that we resolved for Bugzilla 2.20.1. One SQL Injection
-(from an administrator only), one Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
-(that mostly affects only the user who can exploit it), and one minor,
-extremely specific information leak.
-
-To see details on the vulnerabilities that were fixed, see the
-Security Advisory at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.10/
-
-
-Release Notes for Previous Versions
-***********************************
-
-*****************************************
-*** The Bugzilla 2.18.x Release Notes ***
-*****************************************
-
-Table of Contents
-*****************
-
-- Introduction
-- Important Updates In This Point Release
- * Version 2.18.1
- * Version 2.18.2
-- Requirements
- * Dependency Requirements
-- What's New?
- * Generic Reporting
- * Generic Charting
- * Request System
- * Enterprise Group Support
- * User Wildcard Matching
- * Support for "Insiders"
- * Time Tracking
- * Authentication module/LDAP improvements
- * Improved localization support
- * Patch Viewer
- * Comment Reply Links
- * Full-Text Search
- * Email Address Munging
- * Simple Search
- * Miscellaneous Improvements
- * All Changes
-- What's Changed?
- * Flag Names
- * New Saved Search User Interface
- * Rules for changing fields
-- Removed Features
-- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
-- Recommended Practice for the Upgrade
- * Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables
- * Steps for Upgrading
-- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
-- Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases
-- Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes
-
-
-Introduction
-************
-
-This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.18 and
-the bugfix releases after 2.18. In this document, recently added,
-changed, and removed features of Bugzilla are described.
-
-The 2.18 release is our current stable series, containing the results
-of over two years of hard and dedicated work by volunteers all over
-the world under the lead of Dave Miller.
-
-
-Important Updates In This Point Release
-***************************************
-
-There are usually many other bug fixes than those listed below,
-but the below fixes are the ones that we thought System Administrators
-would like to specifically know about.
-
-To see a listing of all changes in this release, you can use the
-table available at:
-
-http://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html
-
-Version 2.18.1
---------------
-
-+ You can now enter a negative time for "Hours Worked"
- in the time-tracking area. (Bug 271276)
-
-+ The BugMail.pm customization required for Windows (as
- described in the Bugzilla Guide) now actually works. (Bug 280911)
-
-+ Users who were using Bugzilla 2.8 can now successfully upgrade
- to 2.18.1 (they couldn't upgrade to 2.18). (Bug 283403)
-
-+ Dependency mails are now properly sent during a mass-change of bugs.
- (Bug 178157)
-
-
-Version 2.18.2
---------------
-
-+ You can now create accounts with createaccount.cgi even
- when the "requirelogin" parameter is turned on. (Bug 294778)
-
-+ Bugs that are in disabled groups may not show a padlock
- on the bug list, or may otherwise behave strangely. You
- can now fix this using sanitycheck.cgi. (Bug 277454)
-
-+ If sendmail dies while you are marking a bug
- as a duplicate, the duplicates table will no longer become
- corrupted. (Bug 225042)
-
-
-Requirements
-************
-
-Dependency Requirements
------------------------
-
-Minimum software requirements:
-
- MySQL v3.23.41 (changed from 2.16)
- Perl v5.6.0 (changed from 2.16) (Non-Windows platforms)
- ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
-
-Required Perl modules:
-
- AppConfig v1.52
- CGI v2.93 (new since 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
- Data::Dumper (any)
- Date::Format v2.21 (changed from 2.16)
- DBI v1.36 (changed from 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
- DBD::mysql v2.1010 (changed from 2.16)
- File::Spec v0.82
- File::Temp (any)
- Template Toolkit v2.08 (changed from 2.16)
- Text::Wrap v2001.0131
-
-Optional Perl modules:
-
- Chart::Base v1.0 (changed from 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
- GD v1.20 (changed from 2.16)
- GD::Graph (any) (new since 2.16)
- GD::Text::Align (any) (new since 2.16)
- Net::LDAP (any) (new since 2.16)
- PatchReader v0.9.4 (new since 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
- XML::Parser (any)
-
-
-What's New?
-***********
-
-Generic Reporting
------------------
-
-Bugzilla has a new mechanism for generating reports of the current state of
-the bug database. It has two related parts: a table-based view, and several
-graphical views.
-
-The table-based view allows you to specify an x, y and z (multiple tables of
-data) axis to plot, and then restrict the bugs plotted using the standard
-query form. You can view the resulting data as an HTML or CSV export (e.g.:
-for importing into a spreadsheet).
-
-There are also bar, line and pie charts, which are defined in a very similar
-way. These views may be more appropriate for particular data types, and are
-suitable for saving and then putting into presentations or web pages.
-
-
-Generic Charting
-----------------
-
-Bugzilla has a new mechanism for generating charts (graphs over time) of any
-arbitrary search. This is known as "New Charts." Legacy data from the previous
-charting mechanism ("Old Charts") is migrated into the "New Charts" when you
-upgrade. The Old Charts mechanism remains, but is deprecated and will be
-removed in a future version of Bugzilla.
-
-Individual users can see/create charts as long as they are a member of the
-group specified in the Param 'chartgroup'. Data can be collected for
-personal charts every seven days (or a longer period, as set by the user).
-Charts created by an administrator can be made public (visible to all). Data
-is collected for administrator charts every day (or a longer period, as set
-by the admin).
-
-The data is collected by the collectstats.pl script, which an administrator
-will need to arrange to be run once every day (see the manual). Chart data can
-be plotted in a number of different ways, and different data sets can be
-plotted on the same graph for comparison.
-
-Please see the Known Bugs section for some important limitations relating to
-access controls on charts.
-
-
-Request System
----------------
-
-The Request System (RS) is a set of enhancements that adds powerful flag
-(superset of the old attachment status) features to the bugs.
-
-RS allows for four states: off, granted, denied, and (optionally) requested,
-where "granted" is the equivalent of "on". These additions mean it is no
-longer necessary to define a status to negate another status (e.g.
-"needs-work" to negate "has-review") because negation is built into each
-status via the status' "denied" state. Bug statuses: Previously only
-attachments could have these kinds of statuses. RS enables them for bugs as
-well. This feature can be used to request and grant/deny certain properties
-for a bug, such as inclusion for a specific milestone or approval for checkin.
-This way, Bugzilla supports the natural decision-making process in your
-organization.
-
-- Requests: Flags can now optionally be made requestable, which means users
- can ask other users to set them. When a user requests a flag, Bugzilla
- emails the requestee and adds the request to a browsable queue so both the
- requester and the requestee can keep track of its status. Once the
- requestee fulfills the request by setting the flag to either granted or
- denied, Bugzilla emails the requestee and removes the request from the
- queue. This feature supports workflow like the mozilla.org code review
- and milestone approval processes, whereby code is peer reviewed before
- being committed and patches get approved by product release managers for
- inclusion in specific product releases.
-
-- Product/component specificity: Previously flags were product-specific, and
- if you wanted the same flag for multiple products you had to define
- multiple flags with the same name. Flags are now
- product/component-specific, and a single flag can be enabled or disabled
- for multiple product/component combinations via inclusions and exclusions
- lists. Flags are enabled for all combinations on their inclusions list
- except those that appear on their exclusions list.
-
-
-Enterprise Group Support
-------------------------
-
-Bugzilla is no longer limited to 55 access control groups. Administrators can
-define an arbitrary number of access groups composed of individual users or
-other groups. The groups can be configured via the web interface to achieve a
-wide variety of access control policies. See the documentation section on
-'Groups And Group Controls' for details.
-
-
-User Wildcard Matching
-----------------------
-
-Sites can now enable the use of wildcards and substrings in bug entry and
-editing forms. If the user enters an incomplete username, he'll get a list of
-users that matched the given username.
-
-
-Support for "Insiders"
-----------------------
-
-If the 'insidergroup' parameter is defined, a specific group of users can be
-designated insiders who can designate comments and attachments as private to
-other insiders. These comments and attachments will be invisible to other
-users who are not members of the insiders group even if the bugs to which they
-apply are visible. Other insiders will see the comments and attachments with a
-visual tinting indicating that they are private.
-
-
-Time Tracking
--------------
-
-Controls for tracking time spent fixing bugs are included in the bug form for
-members of the group specified by the 'timetrackinggroup' parameter. Any time
-comments are added to the bug, members of the time tracking group can add an
-amount of time they spent, and it's figured into the total and displayed at
-the top of the bug. Shown in the bug are your original estimate, the amount of
-time spent so far, the revised estimate of how much time is remaining, and
-your gain/loss on the original estimate.
-
-
-Authentication module/LDAP improvements
----------------------------------------
-
-Bugzilla's authentication mechanisms have been modularized, making pluggable
-authentication schemes for Bugzilla a reality. Both the existing database and
-LDAP systems were ported as part of modularization process. Additionally, the
-CGI portion of the backend was redesigned to allow for authentication from
-other sources, including (theoretically) email, which will help Bug 94850.
-
-As part of this conversion, LDAP logins now use Perl's standard Net::LDAP
-module, which has no external library dependencies.
-
-
-Improved localization support
------------------------------
-
-Bugzilla administrators can now configure which languages are supported by
-their installations and automatically serve correct, localized content to
-users based on the HTTP 'Accept-Language' header sent from users' browsers.
-
-There are currently localized templates available for: Arabic, Belarusian,
-Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish (Spain
-or Mexico) and Russian. These localized template packs are third-party
-contributions, may only be available for specific versions, and may not be
-supported in the future. (http://www.bugzilla.org/download/#localizations)
-
-
-Patch Viewer
-------------
-
-Viewing and reviewing patches in Bugzilla is often difficult due to lack of
-context, improper format and the inherent readability issues that raw patches
-present. Patch Viewer is an enhancement to Bugzilla designed to fix that by
-offering increased context, linking to sections, and integrating with Bonsai,
-LXR and CVS.
-
-
-Comment Reply Links
--------------------
-
-In Edit Bug, each bug comment now includes a convenient (reply) link that
-quotes the comment text into the textarea. This feature is only enabled in
-Javascript-capable browsers, but causes no inconvenience to other user agents.
-
-
-Full-Text Search
-----------------
-
-It is now possible to query the Bugzilla database using full-text searching,
-which spans comments and summaries, and which searches for substrings and stem
-variations of the search term. Basically, it's like using Google.
-
-
-Email Address Munging
----------------------
-
-The fact that raw email addresses are displayed in Bugzilla makes it trivial
-for bots that spamharvest to spider through Bugzilla, in particular, through
-Bugzilla's buglists. This change adds HTML obfuscation of email addresses as
-they appear in the Bugzilla web pages.
-
-
-Google-like Bug Search
-----------------------
-
-Bugzilla now includes a very simple, Google-like "Find a Specific Bug" page,
-in addition to its advanced search page.
-
-
-Miscellaneous Improvements
---------------------------
-
-- The "Assigned To" field on the new bug page is now prefilled with the default
- component owner.
-
-- A bug alias column is now available in the buglist page.
-
-- Lists of bugs containing errors in the sanity check page now have a "view as
- buglist" link in addition to the individual bug links.
-
-- Autolinkification Page - It's now possible to apply Bugzilla's comment
- hyperlinking algorithm to any text you like. This should be useful for status
- updates and other web pages which give lists of bugs. The bug links created
- include the subject, status and resolution of the bug as a tooltip.
-
-- There are more <link> tags on the links toolbar for navigating quickly between
- different areas.
-
-- Buglists are now available as comma-separated value files (CSV) and JavaScript
- (JS) as well as HTML and RDF.
-
-- Keywords and dependencies can now be entered during initial bug entry.
-
-- A CSS id signature unique to each Bugzilla installation is now added to the
- <body> tag on Bugzilla pages to allow custom end-user CSS to explicitly affect
- Bugzilla.
-
-- Perl's path has been changed to a normal /usr/bin/perl from the original
- legacy "bonsaitools" path specifier.
-
-- A new "always-require-login" parameter allows administrators to require a
- login before being able to view any page, except the front page.
-
-- A developer may add an attachment, and also reassign a bug to himself as part
- of that single action.
-
-- Bugzilla is now able to use the replication facilities provided by the
- MySQL database to handle updates from the main database to the secondaries.
-
-- Mail handling is now between 125% to 175% faster.
-
-- Guided Bug Entry: You can see a sample enter_bug.cgi template at
- enter_bug.cgi?format=guided that "guides" users through the process of
- filing a "good" bug. It needs to be modified before use in your organization.
-
-- There is now a "Give me some help" link on the Advanced Search page that will
- enable pop-up help for every field on the page.
-
-- The Bugzilla administrator can now forbid users from marking bugs RESOLVED
- when there are unresolved dependencies.
-
-
-All Changes
------------
-
-To see a list of EVERY bug that was fixed between 2.16 and 2.18 (over 1000),
-see: http://tinyurl.com/6m3e4
-
-
-What's Changed?
-***************
-
-
-Flag names
-----------
-
-Prerelease versions of Bugzilla 2.17 and 2.18 inadvertantly allowed
-commas and spaces in the names of flags, which due to the way they're
-processed, caused lots of internal havoc if you named flags to have
-any commas or spaces in them. Having commas or spaces in the names
-can cause errors in the notification emails and in the bug activity
-log. The ability to create new flags with these characters has been
-removed. If you have any existing flags that you named that way,
-running checksetup will attempt to automatically rename them by
-replacing commas and spaces with underscores.
-
-
-New Saved Search User Interface
--------------------------------
-
-In previous Bugzilla versions, you could specify on the search page that you
-wanted to save a search and store it as a link in your footer. This option has
-now moved to the search results page (buglist.cgi), where you will see a
-"Remember search" button with a box next to it to enter the name of the search.
-
-You can manage your saved searches on the Preferences page.
-
-
-Rules for changing fields
--------------------------
-
-There have been some changes to the rules governing who can change which fields
-of a bug report. The rules for Bugzilla version 2.16 and 2.18, along with
-differences between them, are listed below. Bear in mind that there are other
-restrictions on bug manipulation besides the ones listed below. In particular,
-the groups system enforces restrictions on who can create, edit, or even see
-any given bug.
-
-Bugzilla 2.16 rules:
-
-- anyone can make a null change;
-- anyone can add a comment;
-- anyone in the editbugs group can make any change;
-- the reporter can make any change to the status;
-- anyone in the canconfirm group can change the status
- to any opened state (NEW, REOPENED, ASSIGNED).
-- anyone can change the status to any opened state
- if the everconfirmed flag is set;
-- the owner, QA contact, or reporter can make any change
- *except* changing the status to an opened state;
-- No other changes are permitted.
-
-[Note that these rules combine to allow the reporter to make any change
-to the bug.]
-
-Bugzilla 2.18 rules:
-
-- anyone can make a null change;
-- anyone can add a comment;
-- anyone in the editbugs group can make any change;
-- anyone in the canconfirm group can change the status
- from UNCONFIRMED to any opened state;
-- the owner or QA contact can make any change;
-- the reporter can make any change *except*:
- - changing the status from UNCONFIRMED to any opened state; or
- - changing the target milestone; or
- - changing the priority (unless the letsubmitterchoosepriority
- parameter is set).
-- No other changes are permitted.
-
-The effective differences in the rules:
-
-- In 2.16, the reporter could always change anything about a bug.
-
- In 2.18, the reporter can't:
-
- - confirm the bug unless he is in the canconfirm group;
- - change the target milestone;
- - change the priority (unless the 'letsubmitterchoosepriority'
- parameter is set;
-
- (unless he is also the owner, the QA contact, or in the editbugs
- group, in which case he can do all these things).
-
-- In 2.16, the owner or QA contact (if the 'useqacontact' parameter
- is set) can't change the bug status to an opened status unless they
- are also the reporter, or have editbugs or canconfirm, or the
- everconfirmed flag is set on the bug).
-
- In 2.18 the owner or QA contact can make any change to a bug.
-
-- In 2.16, a member of the canconfirm group can set the status
- to any opened status.
-
- In 2.18 this is only possible if the status was previously
- the unconfirmed status.
-
-- In 2.16, the status can be set to anything by anybody
- if the 'everconfirmed' flag is set.
-
- In 2.18, this authorization code does not pay any attention
- to the 'everconfirmed' flag.
-
-
-Removed Features
-****************
-
-- Please note that Bugzilla no longer supports MySQL 3.22. The minimum required
- version is now 3.23.41.
-
-- The "shadow database" mechanism is no longer used. Instead, use MySQL's
- built-in replication feature.
-
-- If you have placed any comments in the localconfig file, they may be removed
- by checksetup.pl.
-
-
-Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
-********************************************
-
-- A mechanism (called "Template Hooks") for third party extensions to plug into
- existing templates without having to patch or replace distributed templates
- has been added. More information on this can be found in the documentation.
-
-- Header output now uses CGI.pm, in a step towards enabling mod_perl
- compatibility. This change will affect users that had customized charsets in
- their CGI files: previously the charset had to be added everywhere that
- printed the Content-Type header; now it only needs changing in one spot, in
- Bugzilla/CGI.pm.
-
-- $::FORM{} and $::COOKIE{} are deprecated. Use the $cgi methods to access
- them.
-
-- $::userid is gone in favor of Bugzilla->user->id
-
-- ConnectToDatabase() is gone (it's done automatically when you initialize the
- Bugzilla object)
-
-- quietly_check_login() and confirm_login() are gone, use Bugzilla->login()
- with parameters for whether the login is required or not.
-
-- Use Bugzilla->user->login in place of $::COOKIE{Bugzilla_login}
-
-- You can tell if there's a user logged in or not by using
- Bugzilla->user rather than looking for $::userid==0.
- In new 2.18 code, use defined(Bugzilla->user) && (Bugzilla->user->id)
- In 2.20, this will become just (Bugzilla->user->id)
- In templates, always test [% IF user.id %] rather than [% IF user %]
-
-- SendSQL() and related calls are deprecated, and the various $dbh methods
- should be used instead, such as $dbh->prepare() and $dbh->execute().
- Bugzilla->dbh is the $dbh handle to use.
-
-
-Recommended Practice for the Upgrade
-************************************
-
-Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables
-------------------------------------------------
-As previously noted in the Dependency Requirements MySQL is now required
-to be at least version 3.23.41. This implies that all tables of type ISAM will
-be converted by the checksetup.pl script to MyISAM.
-
-
-Steps for Upgrading
--------------------
-
-1) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
- upgrading.
-
-2) As with any upgrade it is recommended that you make a backup of the
- Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps by using mysqldump.
-
- Example:
-
- mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup
-
-3) Replace the files in your installation, or you can try to use CVS to upgrade.
- The Bugzilla.org website has instructions on how to do the actual
- installation.
-
-4) Make sure that you run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
-
-5) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
-
-6) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
- immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
- correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
- an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
- database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
- it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
- version.
-
-
-Outstanding Issues
-******************
-
-These are known problems with the release that we think you should know about.
-They each have a bug number for http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
-
-- If at any time you upgraded from a version of Bugzilla between 2.17.4 -
- 2.17.7 to either 2.18rc3 or 2.19.1, you must manually fix your New Charts in
- order for them to work. See the following link for instructions on how to do
- this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276237#c18
- If you are using 2.18rc3, but did not upgrade from version 2.17.4 or newer,
- then you don't need to do this.
-
-- bug 37765: If you use an MTA other than sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim,
- etc.) you MUST turn on the "sendmailnow" parameter or Bugzilla will not send
- e-mail correctly.
-
-- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
- New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
- only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
- Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
- the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
- restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
- for the Product changes.
-
-- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
- need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
- the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
- up properly in search results.
-
-- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
- example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
- option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
- may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
- Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
-
-- bug 266579: Users may be able to circumvent not having "canconfirm" privileges
- in some circumstances. This is fixed starting with 2.19.3, but will not
- be fixed in any 2.18 release, as the changes required to fix it are quite
- large.
-
-- bug 99215: Attachment changes have no mid-air collision detection, unlike bug
- changes.
-
-- bug 57350: Searching using the "commenter is" option may be VERY slow. Note
- that searching for "field: comment, changed by: user@domain.com" is fast,
- though.
-
-- bug 151509: Using the boolean chart option "contains the string" with the
- "flag name" field or certain other fields will cause Bugzilla to emit an
- error. This is fixed in 2.20rc1, but will not be fixed in the 2.18 series.
-
-- bug 234159: Bugzilla may sometimes send multiple notices in one email.
-
-- bug 237107: If you search for attachment information using the Boolean Charts
- at the bottom of the Advanced Query page, bugs without attachments will not
- show up in the result list.
-
-
-Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases
-*******************************
-
-Version 2.18
-------------
-
-Summary: XSS in Internal Error messages in Bugzilla 2.16.7 and 2.18rc3
-CVE Name: CAN-2004-1061
-Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272620
-Details:
- It is possible to send a carefully crafted URL to Bugzilla designed to
-trigger an error message. The Internal Error message includes javascript code
-which displays the URL the user is visiting. The javascript code does not
-escape the URL before displaying it, allowing scripts contained in the URL to
-be executed by the browser. Many browsers do not allow unescaped URLs to be
-sent to a webserver (thus complying with RFC 2616 section 2.3.1 and RFC 2396
-section 2.4.3), and are thus immune to this issue.
- Browsers which are known to be immune: Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.7.5,
-Camino 0.8.2, Netscape 7.2, Safari 1.2.4
- Browsers known to be susceptible: Internet Explorer 6 SP2,
-Konqueror 3.2
- Browsers not listed here have not been tested.
-
-
-Version 2.18.1
---------------
-
-Two security issues were fixed in Bugzilla 2.18.1, neither of them
-critical.
-
-See http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.8/ for details.
-
-
-Version 2.18.2
---------------
-
-Two security issues were fixed in Bugzilla 2.18.2. One of them
-is a major Information Leak/Unauthorized Bug Change. The other
-is a minor Information Leak.
-
-See http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.18.1/ for details.
-
-
-Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes
-*****************************************
-
-*********************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.7 ***
-*********************************************************
-
-*** Security fixes ***
-
-- It is possible to send a carefully crafted HTTP POST message to
- process_bug.cgi which will remove keywords from a bug even if you don't have
- permissions to edit all bug fields (the "editbugs" permission). Such changes
- are reported in "bug changed" email notifications, so they are easily
- detected and reversed if someone abuses it. Users are now prevented from
- making changes to keywords if they do not have editbugs privileges. (bug
- 252638)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- Enforce a minimum of 10 minutes between attempts to reset a password, so
- we don't mailbomb the user if someone submits the form many times in a
- row. (bug 250897)
-
-- Put products in alphabetical order on the create attachment status page.
- (bug 251427)
-
-- Specify MyISAM as the table type when creating new tables. MySQL 4.1 and
- up default to InnoDB, which doesn't support some of the indexing methods
- that we use. (bug 263165)
-
-*********************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.6 ***
-*********************************************************
-
-*** Security fixes ***
-
-- If Bugzilla is configured to hide entire products from some users, both
- duplicates.cgi and the form for mass-editing a list of bugs in buglist.cgi
- can disclose the names of those hidden products to such users.
- (bugs 234825 and 234855)
-
-- Several administration CGIs echo invalid data back to the user without
- escaping it. (bug 235265)
-
-- A user with privileges to grant membership to any group (i.e. usually an
- administrator) can trick editusers.cgi into executing arbitrary SQL.
- (bug 244272)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- Allow XML import to function when there are regexp metacharacters in product
- names (bug 237591)
-
-- Allow the bug_email.pl contrib script to work with useqacontact (bug 239912)
-
-- Improve the error message used by checksetup.pl when the MySQL requirements
- are not met (bug 240228)
-
-- Elimnate the warning in checksetup.pl about the minimum sendmail version (bug
- 240060)
-
-- $webservergroup now defaults to group 'apache' in new installations (bug
- 224477)
-
-- Correct a situation where a bugmail message could be sent twice to a user
- being added to the CC list if the address was entered in a different case
- than the user registered with. (bug 117297)
-
-- Various documentation updates
-
-*********************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.4 ***
-*********************************************************
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- Fix a "used only once" warning that ocurred only in perl 5.00503
- (bug 2321691)
-
-- When a user is creating a new account and enters an invalid email
- address, the error page sent the "Content-type" header twice, causing
- the second one to be visible at the top of the page.
- (bug 137121)
-
-- An HTML encoding issue which only affected Internet Explorer was
- corrected in the "Change several bugs at once" page.
- (bug 181106)
-
-- During initial setup, using invalid characters in the administrator
- password would present an error message stating your password was
- too long or too short instead of telling you it had invalid
- characters.
- (bug 166755)
-
-- When a user reset their own password via an emailed token, the new
- password in the first field would be accepted if the second password
- field was left blank.
- (bug 123077)
-
-- Reopening bugs from the "change several bugs at once" page now works.
- (bug 95430)
-
-- Fix a regression in xml.cgi caused by the previous bugfix for MySQL
- SUM() changes. The original fix didn't work properly either.
- (bug 225474)
-
-- No longer use server push with the "Safari" browser, which claims to
- use the Mozilla layout engine but doesn't.
- (bug 188712)
-
-- Creating a shadow database no longer fails with taint mode errors.
- (bug 227510)
-
-- If you change your cookiepath setting at some stage (because you have
- moved the directory Bugzilla resides on your webserver), users can
- have login cookies with the old cookiepath, and their browsers will
- send multiple logincookies. Bugzilla now uses the first rather than
- the last in order to get the most specific cookie which will be the
- correct one.
- (bug 121419)
-
-- Fixed a regression caused by the previous DBD::mysql fixes, that
- caused older versions of DBD::mysql to break due to not supporting
- the new DBI syntax.
- (bug 224815)
-
-- Bugzilla no longer sends out invalid dates for cookie expiry. This
- bug had no known user visible ramifications.
- (bug 228706)
-
-- Update the shadow database parameters description to tell the user
- about permissions requirements for creating a shadow database.
- (bug 227513)
-
-- Various documentation updates.
-
-*********************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.3 ***
-*********************************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- A user with 'editproducts' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator)
- can select arbitrary SQL to be run by the nightly statistics cron job
- (collectstats.pl), by giving a product a special name.
- (bug 214290)
-
-- A user with 'editkeywords' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator)
- can inject arbitrary SQL via the URL used to edit an existing keyword.
- (bug 219044)
-
-- When deleting products and the 'usebuggroups' parameter is on, the
- privilege which allows someone to add people to the group which is
- being deleted does not get removed, allowing people with that
- privilege to get that privilege for the next group that is created
- which reuses that group ID. Note that this only allows someone who
- had been granted privileges in the past to retain them.
- (bug 219690)
-
-- If you know the email address of someone who has voted on a secure
- bug, you can access the summary of that bug even if you do not have
- sufficient permissions to view the bug itself.
- (bug 209376)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-Perl 5.8.0 Compatibility fixes:
-
-- Two taint errors were fixed, one in process_bug.cgi, and
- another in post_bug.cgi.
- (bugs 220332 and 177828)
-
-MySQL 4.0 Compatibility fixes:
-
-- A cosmetic fix was applied to votes.cgi (if there were no
- votes, the "0" was not displayed) due to a change in semantics
- in SUM() in MySQL 4.0.
- (bug 217422)
-
-DBD::mysql > 2.1026 Compatibility fixes:
-
-- DBD::mysql versions after 2.1026 return the table list quoted, which
- broke the existing "table exists" check in checksetup.pl, which caused
- the second and subsequent attempts to run checksetup.pl to fail.
- (bug 212095)
-
-Miscellaneous bug fixes:
-
-- A Mozilla-specific reference was removed from one of the report
- templates.
- (bug 221626)
-
-- It was possible to enter a situation where you were unable to get to
- editparams.cgi to turn the shutdownhtml param back off after you
- turned it on when Apache was configured to run Bugzilla in suexec
- mode.
- (bug 213384)
-
-- The processmail rescanall task would not send e-mails about more than
- one bug to the same address.
- (bug 219508)
-
-- If Bugzilla hadn't been accessed in the last hour when the
- collectstats.pl or whineatnews.pl cron jobs ran, the versioncache
- would get recreated with the file owner being the user the cron job
- was running as (usually not the webserver user), causing subsequent
- access to Bugzilla by the webserver to fail until the permissions were
- fixed. Now if versioncache isn't readable when accessing from the
- webserver, we pretend it doesn't exist and recreate it again.
- (bug 160422)
-
-- The 'sendmailnow' param is now on by default in new installations
- (this does not affect existing installations).
- (bug 146087)
-
-- The 008filter.t test would fail if you had multiple language packs
- installed. It now properly tests all of the installed language packs.
- (bug 203318)
-
-- A few minor documentation changes were committed.
-
-*********************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.2 ***
-*********************************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed in which bug
- summaries were not properly filtered when a user viewed a dependency graph
- allowing JavaScript to be embedded on that page.
- (bug 192661)
-
-- Several XSS vulnerabilities were fixed in which user
- input was not escaped when being displayed. A new
- test has been added to warn about unfiltered data in template
- files (t/008filter.t).
- (bug 192677)
-
-- An issue was fixed in which the QA contact was still treated as the QA
- contact even after the 'useqacontact' setting was turned off. This also
- allowed the QA contact to edit the security groups and view secured bugs that
- he/she was allowed to access prior to the 'useqacontact' setting being
- deactivated.
- (bug 194394)
-
-- Fixed a situation where an attacker (with local access to the webserver)
- could overwrite any file on the webserver to which the webserver user
- has write access by creating appropriately named symbolic links in the
- data and webdot directories (world-writable in many configurations).
- Bugzilla now uses File::Temp to create secure temporary files. File::Temp
- is part of the Perl distribution for Perl 5.6.1 and later, but if you're
- using an older version of Perl you'll need to install it with CPAN.
- (bug 197153)
-
-** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
-
-- New module requirement: File::Temp, as mentioned above.
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- An issue was fixed in which administrator rights could be removed from an
- administrator who deleted a product while the 'usebuggroups' setting is
- activated.
- (bug 157704)
-
-- Fixed an issue in which importxml.pl would fail the test suite when running
- under perl 5.8.0 with the optional XML::Parse module.
- (bug 172331)
-
-- There was previously a bug in CGI.pl in which the following warning
- would be given under certain conditions:
- "Character in "c" format wrapped at CGI.pl..."
- This is now fixed. In some cases the warning was filling up web server log
- files.
- (bug 194125)
-
-- Fixed a bug in which long component names (in excess of 50 characters) would
- be accepted when creating the component but would cause problems when trying
- to use that component on a bug because it would get truncated. It is now no
- longer possible to create components with names in excess of 50 characters.
- (bug 197180)
-
-- Fixed a bug in checksetup.pl in which permissions were not being fixed
- on the 'data/comments' file, the quip file.
- (bug 160279)
-
-*****************************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.1 OR EARLIER, 2.14.4 OR EARLIER ***
-*****************************************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- Fixed a cross site scriptability issue in quips. This is only a problem
- if quips with HTML could have been inserted into your quips files. Bugzilla
- has not allowed this since 2.12.
- (bug 179329)
-- checksetup.pl will now attempt to prevent access to "editor backups" of
- localconfig.
- (bug 186383)
-- collectstats.pl no longer makes data/mining (which contains graphing
- information) world writeable.
- (bug 183188)
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- Apostrophes were not properly handled in email addresses. This was a
- regression introduced in 2.16. It is not known whether this was
- exploitable.
- (bug 165221)
-
-See also next major section.
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- The VERSION cookie which allowed the previously entered version of a product
- to be remembered was not correctly set. It was only set as a session
- cookie, and under some circumstances could interfere with other cookies
- (such as the login information) send at the same time.
- (bug 160227)
-
-- importxml.pl would fail if the versioncache needed to be updated.
- (bug 164464)
-
-- Bug changes going through intermediate pages would munge fields with
- multiple fields, such as CCs.
- (bug 161203)
-
-- On failure in template->new, Bugzilla will now die rather than futilely
- attempt to use an error template.
- (bug 166023)
-
-- Fixed a problem where checksetup had problems converting old installations
- that didn't have a duplicates table.
- (bug 151619)
-
-- Fixed a problem that caused taint errors when viewing or editing user
- preferences with Perl 5.005 and Template 2.08.
- (bug 160710)
-
-See also next section.
-
-******************************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0, 2.14.3 OR EARLIER ***
-******************************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- When a new product is added to an installation with 47 groups or more and
- "usebuggroups" is enabled, the new group will be assigned a groupset bit
- using Perl math that is not exact beyond 2^48. This results in the new
- group being defined with a "bit" that has several bits set. As users are
- given access to the new group, those users will also gain access to
- spurious lower group privileges. Also, group bits were not always reused
- when groups were deleted.
- (bug 167485)
-
-- The email interface had another insecure single parameter system call. This
- could potentially allow arbitrary shell commands to be run. This file is
- not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we
- couldn't overlook it.
- (bug 163024)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- The email interface was broken. This was a 2.14.3 regression. This file
- is not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we
- couldn't overlook it.
- (bug 160631)
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.5 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- The bug reporter could set the priority even when
- 'letsubmitterchoosepriority' was off.
- (bug 63018)
-
-- Most CGIs are now templatized. This helps to make it
- easier to remember to HTML filter values and easier to spot
- when they are not, preventing cross site scripting attacks.
- (bug 86168)
-
-- Most CGIs now run in taint mode. This helps to prevent
- failure to validate errors.
- (bug 108982)
-
-*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
-
-- 2.16 introduces "templatization", a new feature that allows
- administrators to easily customize the HTML output (the "look and feel")
- of Bugzilla without altering Perl code. Bugzilla uses the
- "Template Toolkit" for this. Please see the "Template Customization"
- section of the Bugzilla Guide for more details.
-
- Administrators who ran the 2.15 development version with custom
- templates should check the templates are still valid, as file names
- and file paths have changed.
-
- Most output is now templatized. This process will be complete next
- milestone.
-
- For speed, compiled templates are cached on disk. If you modify the
- templates, the toolkit will normally detect the changes, and recompile the
- changed templates.
-
- Adding new directories anywhere inside the template directory may cause
- permission errors if you don't have a webservergroup specified in
- localconfig. If you see these, rerun checksetup.pl as root. If you do not
- have root access, or cannot get someone who does to do this for you, you can
- rename the data/template directory to data/template.old (or any other name
- Bugzilla doesn't use). Then rerun checksetup.pl to regenerate the compiled
- templates.
- (bug 86168, 97832)
-
-- Administrators can now configure maximum attachment sizes. These
- should remain below the maximum size for your MySQL server, or you
- will get obscure MySQL errors if you attach a bigger attachment.
-
- To find out the current size attachment that MySQL can accept, type
- the command 'mysqladmin variables' and find out the value of the
- 'max_allowed_packet' varible in bytes.
-
- To change the maximum size that MySQL can accept you can alter this
- variable in your 'my.cnf' file.
- (bug 91664)
-
-- Perl 5.004 is no longer supported because the Template Toolkit
- requires 5.005.
- (bug 97721)
-
-- New module requirements: Text::Wrap, Template [requires AppConfig],
- File::Spec.
- (bugs 97784, 84338, 103778)
-
-- The index page is now a CGI instead of an HTML page. You should remove
- any existing index.html file and make sure your web server allows index.cgi
- to be the default page in a directory. If you are not able to do that you
- can instead set index_html in the 'localconfig' file to 1 and checksetup.pl
- will create a redirect page for you.
- (bug 80183)
-
-- It is now recommended that administrators run "processmail rescanall"
- after upgrading to 2.16 or beyond.
-
- This will send out notification emails for changes that were
- made but not emailed, due to Bugzilla bugs. All known
- causes of this have been fixed in this version (bug 104589 and 99519).
-
- It is also recommended that this be run nightly to avoid
- lengthy delays in future if this problem reoccurs.
- (bug 106377)
-
-- In parallel with templatization, a lot of changes have been made to the HTML
- output of the Bugzilla CGIs. This could break code that attempts to parse
- such code. For example, this breaks mozbot.
- (no bug number)
-
-- The "HTML template" parameters (headerhtml, bodyhtml, footerhtml,
- errorhtml, bannerhtml, blurbhtml, mostfreqhtml, entryheaderhtml) have now
- been moved to Template Toolkit templates. If you have modified these
- parameters you will need to make corresponding changes to the corresponding
- templates. Your old parameter values will be moved to a file called
- old-params.txt by checksetup.pl.
-
- The old parameters correspond to files in template/en/default as follows:
-
- headerhtml: global/header.html.tmpl
- footerhtml: global/footer.html.tmpl
- bannerhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl
- blurbhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl
- mostfreqhtml: reports/duplicates*.html.tmpl
- entryheaderhtml: bug/create/user-message.html.tmpl
-
- (bug 140437)
-
-*** Other changes of note ***
-
-- The query page has been redesigned for better user friendliness.
- (bug 98707)
-- Users can now change their email account.
- (bug 23067)
-- "Dependent Bug Changed" notification emails now contain the
- dependent bug's summary and URL.
- (bug 28736, 113383)
-- Bugs with severity "critical", "blocker", and "enhancement" are
- visually differentiated on bug lists for browsers with sufficient
- CSS support.
- (bug 28884)
-- Bugzilla now has a sidebar for the Mozilla browser.
- (bug 37339)
-- A link to just created attachments now appears in notification
- email.
- (bug 66651)
-- Comments now have numbers and can be referenced with
- autohyperlinkifying similar to bugs.
- (bug 71840)
-- The attachment system has been rewritten, supporting new
- "attachment statuses" (like keywords, but for attachments),
- the ability to obsolete attachments, edit attachment MIME type,
- and edit whether the attachment is a patch.
- (bugs 84338, 75176)
-- syncshadowdb now supports a configurable temp file location,
- and properly shuts down Bugzilla while running.
- (bug 75840)
-- Dependency tree now lets you exclude resolved bugs and bugs
- below a specified depth.
- (bugs 83058)
-- The "strictvaluechecks" parameter has gone away. These checks
- are now always done.
- (bug 119715)
-- The midair collision page now shows all changes since the bug
- page was loaded, not just the last one.
- (bug 108312)
-- Added support for making dependency graphs with 'dot', which
- is better at creating complex graphs than 'webdot'.
- (bug 120537)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- Bugzilla scripts are now usually not terminated when the browser
- window they are running in is closed. This caused hard to
- reproduce bugs.
- (bug 104589)
-- On browsers that "reflow" the page, large component / milestone /
- version fields were extremely slow to reflow when you altered
- the product field.
- (bug 96534)
-- The selection in the component / milestone / version fields is
- no longer lost when you change the selection in the product
- field or use the back/forward buttons in your browser to return
- to the page.
- (bug 97966)
-- You could not reverse dependencies in one step.
- (bug 82143)
-- Mass reassignment of non-open bugs will no longer reopen them.
- (bug 30731)
-- Attempting to bulk change no bugs will now give a user-friendly
- error message.
- (bug 90333)
-- If you make a change to a bug where you only add yourself to CC,
- email notifications are now properly sent out for MySQL 3.23.
- (bug 99519)
-- Bug entry now properly validates the data it has been sent.
- (bug 107743)
-- Midair collision checks will now properly work in all situations
- where dependencies have changed.
- (bug 73502)
-- Browsers can no longer corrupt the params file if they use the "wrong"
- end-of-line markers.
- (bug 92500)
-- The MySQL port defined in localconfig is now properly honoured.
- (bug 98368)
-- Apostrophes in component/milestone/version names no longer cause
- a problem on the query page.
- (bug 30689/42810)
-- File attachment comments will now wrap.
- (bug 52060)
-- Saved queries are no longer mangled if you need to log in again,
- for example if you had cookies off.
- (bug 38835)
-- Bug counts (on reports.cgi) were very slow if you had to
- count a lot of bugs.
- (bug 63249)
-- 2.14 introduced options to let people see a bug when their name
- is on it but who aren't in the groups the bug is restricted
- to. These only allowed the people to view the bugs directly,
- and not see them on buglists and receive email about them.
- (bugs 95024, 97469)
-- A new 'cookiepath' parameter on editparams.cgi allows multiple
- Bugzilla installations to exist on one host without problems.
- (bug 19910)
-- whineatnews.pl now respects the 'sendmailnow' parameter.
- (bug 52782)
-- The query page came up even when Bugzilla was shut down.
- (bug 121747)
-- Quicksearch gave a weird error message when Bugzilla was
- shut down.
- (bug 121741)
-- Operating system detection fixes.
- (bugs 92763, 135666)
-- QA contacts now receive emails when a new bug is created and
- their only email preference was being added or removed from QA.
- (bug 143091)
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.4 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.1 or earlier,
-2.14.4 or earlier.
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.3 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.0 or earlier.
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.2 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- Basic maintenance on contrib/bug_email.pl and
- contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl which also fixes a
- possible security hole with a misuse of a system() call.
- These files are not supported at this time, but as long
- as we knew about the problem, we couldn't overlook it.
- (bug 154008)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- The fix for bug 130821 in 2.14.2 broke being able to sort
- bug lists on more than one field. buglist.cgi now allows
- you to sort on more than one field again.
- (bug 152138)
-
-***********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.1 OR EARLIER ***
-***********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- queryhelp.cgi no longer shows confidential products to
- people it shouldn't.
- (bug 126801)
-
-- It was possible for a user to bypass the IP check by
- setting up a fake reverse DNS, if the Bugzilla web server
- was configured to do reverse DNS lookups. Apache is not
- configured as such by default. This is not a complete
- exploit, as the user's login cookie would also need to
- be divulged for this to be a problem.
- (bug 129466)
-
-- In some situations the data directory became world writeable.
- (bug 134575)
-
-- Any user with access to editusers.cgi could delete a user
- regardless of whether 'allowuserdeletion' is on.
- (bug 141557)
-
-- Real names were not HTML filtered, causing possible cross
- site scripting attacks.
- (bug 146447, 147486)
-
-- Mass change would set the groupset of every bug to be the
- groupset of the first bug.
- (bug 107718)
-
-- Some browsers (eg NetPositive) interacted with Bugzilla
- badly and could have various form problems, including
- removing group restrictions on bugs.
- (bug 148674)
-
-- It was possible for random confidential information to be
- divulged, if the shadow database was in use and became
- corrupted.
- (bug 92263)
-
-- The bug list sort order is now stricter about the SQL it will accept,
- ensuring you use correct column name syntax. Before this, there were
- some syntax checks, so it is not known whether this problem was
- exploitable.
- (bug 130821)
-
-********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14 OR EARLIER ***
-********************************************
-
-The 2.14.1 release fixes several security issues that became
-known to us after the Bugzilla 2.14 release.
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- If LDAP Authentication was being used, Bugzilla would allow
- you to log in as anyone if you left the password blank.
- (bug 54901)
-
-- It was possible to add comments or file a bug as someone else
- by editing the HTML on the appropriate submission page before
- submitting the form. User identity is checked now, and the
- form values suggesting the user are now ignored.
- (bug 108385, 108516)
-
-- The Product popup menu on the show_bug form listed all
- products, even if the user didn't have access to all of them.
- It now only shows products the user has access to (and the
- product the bug is in, if the user is viewing it because of
- some other override).
- (bug 102141)
-
-- If a user had any blessgroupset privileges (the ability to
- change only specific privileges for other users), it was
- possible to change your own groupset (privileges) by
- altering the page HTML before submitting on editusers.cgi.
- (bug 108821)
-
-- An untrusted variable was echoed back to user in the HTML
- output if there was a login error while editing votes.
- (bug 98146)
-
-- buglist.cgi had an undocumented parameter that allowed you
- to pass arbitrary SQL for the "WHERE" part of a query.
- This has been disabled.
- (bug 108812)
-
-- It was possible for a user to send arbitrary SQL by inserting
- single quotes in the "mybugslink" field in the user
- preferences.
- (bug 108822)
-
-- buglist.cgi was not validating that the field names being
- passed from the "boolean chart" query form were valid field
- names, thus allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted if you
- edited the HTML by hand before submitting the form.
- (bug 109679)
-
-- long_list.cgi was not validating that the bug ID parameter
- was actually a number, allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted
- if you edited the HTML by hand.
- (bug 109690)
-
-********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.12 OR EARLIER ***
-********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- Multiple instances of unauthorized access to confidential
- bugs have been fixed.
- (bug 39524, 39526, 39527, 39531, 39533, 70189, 82781)
-
-- Multiple instances of untrusted parameters not being
- checked/escaped was fixed. These included definite security
- holes.
- (bug 38854, 38855, 38859, 39536, 87701, 95235)
-
-- After logging in passwords no longer appear in the URL.
- (bug 15980)
-
-- Procedures to prevent unauthorized access to confidential
- files are now simpler. In particular the shadow directory
- no longer exists and the data/comments file no longer needs
- to be directly accessible, so the entire data directory can
- be blocked. However, no changes are required here if you
- have a properly secured 2.12 installation as no new files
- must be protected.
- (bug 71552, 73191)
-
-- If they do not already exist, checksetup.pl will attempt to
- write Apache .htaccess files by default, to prevent
- unauthorized access to confidential files. You can turn this
- off in the localconfig file.
- (bug 76154)
-
-- Sanity check can now only be run by people in the 'editbugs'
- group. Although it would be better to have a separate
- group, this is not possible until the limitation on the
- number of groups allowed has been removed.
- (bug 54556)
-
-- The password is no longer stored in plaintext form. It will
- be eradicated next time you run checksetup.pl. A user must
- now change their password via a password change request that
- gets validated at their e-mail account, rather than have it
- mailed to them.
- (bug 74032)
-
-- When you are using product groups and you move a bug between
- products (single or mass change), the bug will no longer be
- restricted to the old product's group (if it was) and will
- be restricted to the new product's group.
- (bug 66235)
-
-- There are now options on a bug to choose whether the
- reporter, and CCs can access a bug even if they aren't in
- groups the bug it is restricted to.
- (bug 39816)
-
-- You can no longer mark a bug as a duplicate of a bug you
- can't see, and if you mark a bug a duplicate of a bug
- the reporter cannot see you will be given options as to
- what to do regarding adding the reporter of the resolved
- bug to the CC of the open bug.
- (bug 96085)
-
-*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
-
-- Bugzilla 2.14 no longer supports old email tech. Upon
- upgrading, all users will be moved over to new email tech.
- This should speed up upgrading for installations with
- a large number of bugs.
- (bug 71552)
-
-- There is new functionality for people to see why they are
- receiving notification mails.
-
- Previously, some people filtered old email tech
- notifications depending on whether they were in the To or the
- CC header, in order to get a limited way of determining why
- they were receiving the notification for filtering purposes.
-
- Existing installations will need to make changes to support
- this feature. The receive reasons can be added to the
- notifications as a header and/or in the body. To add these
- you will need to modify your newchangedmail parameter on
- editparams.cgi, either by resetting it or appropriately
- modifying it. The header value is specified by
- %reasonsheader% and the body by %reasonsbody%. For example,
- the new default parameter is:
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- From: bugzilla-daemon
- To: %to%
- Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary%
- X-Bugzilla-Reason: %reasonsheader%
-
- %urlbase%show_bug.cgi?id=%bugid%
-
- %diffs%
-
-
-
- %reasonsbody%
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- (bug 26194)
-
-- Very long fields (especially multi-valued fields like keywords,
- CCs, dependencies) on bug activity and notifications previously
- could get truncated, resulting in useless notifications and data
- loss on bug activity. Now the multi-valued fields only show
- changes, and very big changes are split into multiple lines.
- Where data loss has already occurred on bug activity, it is
- indicated using question marks.
- (bug 55161, 92266)
-
-- Previously, when a product's voting preferences changed all
- votes were removed from all the bugs in the product. Also,
- when a bug was moved to another product, all of its votes
- were removed. This no longer occurs.
-
- Instead, if the action would leave one or more bugs with
- greater than the maximum number of votes per person per bug,
- the number of votes will be reduced to the maximum. The
- person will still be notified of this as before.
-
- If the action would leave a user with more votes in a product
- than is allowed, the limit will be breached so as to not lose
- votes. However the user will not be able to update their
- votes except to fix this situation. No further action is taken
- in this version to make sure that the user does this.
- (bug 28882, 92593)
-
-*** Other changes of note ***
-
-- Groups can now be marked inactive, so you can't add a new
- restriction on that group to a bug, while leaving bugs that
- were previously restricted on that group alone.
- (bug 75482)
-- backdoor.cgi has been removed from the installation. It was
- old code that was Netscape-specific and its name was scaring
- people.
- (bug 87983)
-- You can now add or remove from CC on the bulk change page.
- (bug 12819)
-- New users created by administrators are now automatically
- inserted into groups according to the group's regular
- expression. Administrators must edit the user in a second
- step to override these choices. Previously the
- administrator specified these explicitly which could lead
- to incorrect settings.
- (bug 45164)
-- The userregexp of system groups can now be edited without
- resorting to direct database access.
- (bug 65290)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- The bug list page was sometimes bringing up a not logged in
- footer when the user was logged in and the installation was
- using a shadow database.
- (bug 47914)
-- You can now view the bug summary in your browser title for
- a group-restricted bug if you have proper permissions.
- (bug 71767)
-- Quick search for search terms did not work in IE5.
- This has been worked around.
- (bug 77699)
-- Quick search for search terms crashed NN4.76/4.77 for Unix.
- This has been worked around.
- (bug 83619)
-- Queries on bugs you have commented on using the "added
- comment" feature should be a lot faster and not time out
- on large installations due to the addition of an index.
- (bug 57350)
-- You can now alter group settings on bulk change for groups
- that aren't on for all bugs or off for all bugs.
- (bug 84714)
-- New bug notifications now include the CC and QA fields.
- (bug 28458)
-- Bugzilla is now more Windows friendly, although it is still
- not an official platform.
- (bug 88179, 29064)
-- Passwords are now encrypted using Perl's encrypt function.
- This makes Bugzilla more portable to more operating systems.
- (bug 77473)
-- Bugzilla didn't properly shut down when told to - some
- queries could still be sent to the database.
- (bug 95082)
-
-********************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.10 OR EARLIER ***
-********************************************
-
-*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
-
-- Some security holes have been fixed where shell escape characters
- could be passed to Bugzilla, allowing remote users to execute
- system commands on the web server.
-
-*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
-
-- There is now a facility for users to choose the sort of
- notifications they wish to receive. This facility will
- probably be improved in future versions.
- (bug 17464)
-
-- "Changed" will no longer appear on the subject line of
- change notification emails. Because of this, you should
- change the subject line in your 'changedmail' and
- 'newchangedmail' params on editparams.cgi. The subject
- line needs to be changed from
-
- Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged% - %summary%
-
- to:
-
- Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary%
-
- or whatever is appropriate for the subject you are using
- on your system. Note the removal of the " - " in the
- middle.
- (bug 29820)
-
-*** Other changes of note ***
-
-- Bug titles now appear in the page title, and will hence
- display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history.
- (bug 22041)
-- Edit groups functionality (editgroups.cgi).
- (bug 25010)
-- Support for moving bugs to other Bugzilla databases.
- (bug 36133)
-- Bugzilla now can generate a frequently reported bugs list
- based on what duplicates you receive.
- (bug 25693)
-- When installing Bugzilla fresh, the administrator account is
- now created in checksetup.pl.
- (bug 17773)
-- Stored queries now show their name above the bug list, which
- helps the user when they have multiple bug lists in multiple
- browser windows. It also appears in the page title, and will
- hence display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history.
- (bug 52228)
-- All states and resolutions can now be collected for charting.
- (bug 6682)
-- A new search-engine-like "quick search" feature appears on
- the front page to try and making searching easier.
- (bug 69793)
-- Querying on dependencies now works in the advanced query
- section of the query page.
- (bug 30823)
-- When a bug is marked as a duplicate, the reporter of the
- resolved bug is automatically added to the CC list of the
- open bug.
- (bug 28676)
-
-*** Bug fixes of note ***
-
-- Notification emails will now always be sent to QA contacts.
- Previously they wouldn't if you were using new email tech.
- (bug 30826)
-- When marking a bug as a duplicate, the duplicate stamp marked
- on the open bug will no longer be written too early (such as
- on mid-air collisions).
- (bug 7873)
-- Various bug fixes were made to the initial assignee and QA
- of a component. It is no longer possible to enter an
- invalid address. They will also now properly update when
- a user's email address is changed. Sanity check will now
- check these.
- (bug 66876)
-- Administrators can no longer create an email accounts that do
- not match the global email regular expression parameter.
- Previously this could occur and would cause sanity check
- errors.
- (bug 32971)
-- The resolution field can no longer become empty when the
- bug is resolved. This occurred because of midair collisions.
- (bug 49306)
-
-*******************************************
-*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.8 OR EARLIER ***
-*******************************************
-
-Release notes were not compiled for versions of Bugzilla before
-2.12.
-
-The file 'UPGRADING-pre-2.8' contains instructions you may
-need to perform in addition to running 'checksetup.pl' if you
-are running a pre 2.8 version.
-
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- bug-tracking system from mozilla.org.
- Bugzilla is an enterprise-class piece of software
- that tracks millions of bugs and issues for hundreds of
- organizations around the world.
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- The most current version of this document can always be found on the
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-<!-- $Id: about.xml,v 1.26 2007/08/02 06:52:32 wurblzap%gmail.com Exp $ -->
-
-<chapter id="about">
-<title>About This Guide</title>
-
- <section id="copyright">
- <title>Copyright Information</title>
-
- <para>This document is copyright (c) 2000-&current-year; by the various
- Bugzilla contributors who wrote it.</para>
-
- <blockquote>
- <para>
- Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
- document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
- License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the
- 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 <xref linkend="gfdl"/>.
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- <para>
- If you have any questions regarding this document, its
- copyright, or publishing this document in non-electronic form,
- please contact the Bugzilla Team.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="disclaimer">
- <title>Disclaimer</title>
- <para>
- No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
- Follow the instructions herein at your own risk.
- This document may contain errors
- and inaccuracies that may damage your system, cause your partner
- to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to
- pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear
- war. Proceed with caution.
- </para>
- <para>
- Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
- endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". We
- wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux; it is an extremely
- versatile, stable,
- and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
- environment for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to
- ensure that all exploitable bugs have been fixed, security holes surely
- exist in any piece of code. Great care should be taken both in
- the installation and usage of this software. The Bugzilla development
- team members assume no liability for your use of Bugzilla. You have
- the source code, and are responsible for auditing it yourself to ensure
- your security needs are met.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-<!-- Section 2: New Versions -->
-
- <section id="newversions">
- <title>New Versions</title>
- <para>
- This is the &bz-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named
- to match the current version of Bugzilla.
- <!-- BZ-DEVEL --> This version of the guide, like its associated Bugzilla version, is a
- development version.<!-- /BZ-DEVEL -->
- </para>
- <para>
- The latest version of this guide can always be found at <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org"/>, or checked out via CVS by
- following the <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">Mozilla
- CVS</ulink> instructions and check out the
- <filename>mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/</filename>
- subtree. However, you should read the version
- which came with the Bugzilla release you are using.
- </para>
- <para>
- The Bugzilla Guide, or a section of it, is also available in
- the following languages:
- <ulink url="http://www.traduc.org/docs/guides/lecture/bugzilla/">French</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla-de.sourceforge.net/docs/html/">German</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.jp/docs/2.18/">Japanese</ulink>.
- Note that these may be outdated or not up to date.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In addition, there are Bugzilla template localization projects in
- the following languages. They may have translated documentation
- available:
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-ar/">Arabic</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-be/">Belarusian</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://openfmi.net/projects/mozilla-bg/">Bulgarian</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-br/">Brazilian Portuguese</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-cn/">Chinese</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-fr/">French</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://germzilla.ganderbay.net/">German</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-it/">Italian</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.jp/about/jp.html">Japanese</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-kr/">Korean</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-ru/">Russian</ulink> and
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugzilla-es/">Spanish</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you would like to volunteer to translate the Guide into additional
- languages, please contact
- <ulink url="mailto:justdave@bugzilla.org">Dave Miller</ulink>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="credits">
- <title>Credits</title>
- <para>
- The people listed below have made enormous contributions to the
- creation of this Guide, through their writing, dedicated hacking efforts,
- numerous e-mail and IRC support sessions, and overall excellent
- contribution to the Bugzilla community:
- </para>
-
- <!-- TODO: This is evil... there has to be a valid way to get this look -->
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Matthew P. Barnson <email>mbarnson@sisna.com</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for the Herculean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide
- and shepherding it to 2.14.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Terry Weissman <email>terry@mozilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon
- which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Tara Hernandez <email>tara@tequilarists.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left
- mozilla.org and for running landfill.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dave Lawrence <email>dkl@redhat.com</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for providing insight into the key differences between Red
- Hat's customized Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dawn Endico <email>endico@mozilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's
- incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Jacob Steenhagen <email>jake@bugzilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development
- period.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>Dave Miller <email>justdave@bugzilla.org</email></term>
- <listitem>
- <para>for taking over as project lead when Tara stepped down and
- continually pushing for the documentation to be the best it can be.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
-
- <para>
- Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions
- to this documentation:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member>Kevin Brannen</member>
- <member>Vlad Dascalu</member>
- <member>Ben FrantzDale</member>
- <member>Eric Hanson</member>
- <member>Zach Lipton</member>
- <member>Gervase Markham</member>
- <member>Andrew Pearson</member>
- <member>Joe Robins</member>
- <member>Spencer Smith</member>
- <member>Ron Teitelbaum</member>
- <member>Shane Travis</member>
- <member>Martin Wulffeld</member>
- </simplelist>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also, thanks are due to the members of the
- <ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.bugzilla">
- mozilla.support.bugzilla</ulink>
- newsgroup (and its predecessor, netscape.public.mozilla.webtools).
- Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches,
- this could never have happened.
- </para>
- </section>
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-<chapter id="administration">
- <title>Administering Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="parameters">
- <title>Bugzilla Configuration</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla is configured by changing various parameters, accessed
- from the "Parameters" link in the Administration page (the
- Administration page can be found by clicking the "Administration"
- link in the footer). The parameters are divided into several categories,
- accessed via the menu on the left. Following is a description of the
- different categories and important parameters within those categories.
- </para>
-
- <section id="param-requiredsettings">
- <title>Required Settings</title>
-
- <para>
- The core required parameters for any Bugzilla installation are set
- here. These parameters must be set before a new Bugzilla installation
- can be used. Administrators should review this list before
- deploying a new Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
-
- <indexterm>
- <primary>checklist</primary>
- </indexterm>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- maintainer
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email address of the person
- responsible for maintaining this Bugzilla installation.
- The address need not be that of a valid Bugzilla account.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- urlbase
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines the fully qualified domain name and web
- server path to this Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
- <para>
- For example, if the Bugzilla query page is
- <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/query.cgi</filename>,
- the <quote>urlbase</quote> should be set
- to <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- docs_urlbase
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines path to the Bugzilla documentation. This can be a fully
- qualified domain name, or a path relative to "urlbase".
- </para>
- <para>
- For example, if the "Bugzilla Configuration" page
- of the documentation is
- <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/docs/html/parameters.html</filename>,
- set the <quote>docs_urlbase</quote>
- to <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/docs/html/</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- sslbase
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines the fully qualified domain name and web
- server path for HTTPS (SSL) connections to this Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
- <para>
- For example, if the Bugzilla main page is
- <filename>https://www.foo.com/bugzilla/index.cgi</filename>,
- the <quote>sslbase</quote> should be set
- to <filename>https://www.foo.com/bugzilla/</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- ssl
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Determines when Bugzilla will force HTTPS (SSL) connections, using
- the URL defined in <command>sslbase</command>.
- Options include "always", "never", and "authenticated sessions".
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- cookiedomain
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines the domain for Bugzilla cookies. This is typically left blank.
- If there are multiple hostnames that point to the same webserver, which
- require the same cookie, then this parameter can be utilized. For
- example, If your website is at
- <filename>https://www.foo.com/</filename>, setting this to
- <filename>.foo.com/</filename> will also allow
- <filename>bar.foo.com/</filename> to access Bugzilla cookies.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- cookiepath
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines a path, relative to the web server root, that Bugzilla
- cookies will be restricted to. For example, if the
- <command>urlbase</command> is set to
- <filename>http://www.foo.com/bugzilla/</filename>, the
- <command>cookiepath</command> should be set to
- <filename>/bugzilla/</filename>. Setting it to "/" will allow all sites
- served by this web server or virtual host to read Bugzilla cookies.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- timezone
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Timezone of server. The timezone is displayed with timestamps. If
- this parameter is left blank, the timezone is not displayed.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- utf8
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Determines whether to use UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding for all text in
- Bugzilla. New installations should set this to true to avoid character
- encoding problems. Existing databases should set this to true only
- after the data has been converted from existing legacy character
- encoding to UTF-8, using the
- <filename>contrib/recode.pl</filename> script.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- If you turn this parameter from "off" to "on", you must re-run
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> immediately afterward.
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- shutdownhtml
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If there is any text in this field, this Bugzilla installation will
- be completely disabled and this text will appear instead of all
- Bugzilla pages for all users, including Admins. Used in the event
- of site maintenance or outage situations.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Although regular log-in capability is disabled while
- <command>shutdownhtml</command>
- is enabled, safeguards are in place to protect the unfortunate
- admin who loses connection to Bugzilla. Should this happen to you,
- go directly to the <filename>editparams.cgi</filename> (by typing
- the URL in manually, if necessary). Doing this will prompt you to
- log in, and your name/password will be accepted here (but nowhere
- else).
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- announcehtml
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Any text in this field will be displayed at the top of every HTML
- page in this Bugzilla installation. The text is not wrapped in any
- tags. For best results, wrap the text in a <quote>&lt;div&gt;</quote>
- tag. Any style attributes from the CSS can be applied. For example,
- to make the text green inside of a red box, add <quote>id=message</quote>
- to the <quote>&lt;div&gt;</quote> tag.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- proxy_url
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If this Bugzilla installation is behind a proxy, enter the proxy
- information here to enable Bugzilla to access the Internet. Bugzilla
- requires Internet access to utilize the
- <command>upgrade_notification</command> parameter (below). If the
- proxy requires authentication, use the syntax:
- <filename>http://user:pass@proxy_url/</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- upgrade_notification
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enable or disable a notification on the homepage of this Bugzilla
- installation when a newer version of Bugzilla is available. This
- notification is only visible to administrators. Choose "disabled",
- to turn off the notification. Otherwise, choose which version of
- Bugzilla you want to be notified about: "development_snapshot" is the
- latest release on the trunk; "latest_stable_release" is the most
- recent release available on the most recent stable branch;
- "stable_branch_release" the most recent release on the branch
- this installation is based on.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-admin-policies">
- <title>Administrative Policies</title>
- <para>
- This page contains parameters for basic administrative functions.
- Options include whether to allow the deletion of bugs and users, whether
- to allow users to change their email address, and whether to allow
- user watching (one user receiving all notifications of a selected
- other user).
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- supportwatchers
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Turning on this option allows users to ask to receive copies
- of bug mail sent to another user. Watching a user with
- different group permissions is not a way to 'get around' the
- system; copied emails are still subject to the normal groupset
- permissions of a bug, and <quote>watchers</quote> will only be
- copied on emails from bugs they would normally be allowed to view.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-user-authentication">
- <title>User Authentication</title>
- <para>
- This page contains the settings that control how this Bugzilla
- installation will do its authentication. Choose what authentication
- mechanism to use (the Bugzilla database, or an external source such
- as LDAP), and set basic behavioral parameters. For example, choose
- whether to require users to login to browse bugs, the management
- of authentication cookies, and the regular expression used to
- validate email addresses. Some parameters are highlighted below.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- emailregexp
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Defines the regular expression used to validate email addresses
- used for login names. The default attempts to match fully
- qualified email addresses (i.e. 'user@example.com'). Some
- Bugzilla installations allow only local user names (i.e 'user'
- instead of 'user@example.com'). In that case, the
- <command>emailsuffix</command> parameter should be used to define
- the email domain.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- emailsuffix
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This string is appended to login names when actually sending
- email to a user. For example,
- If <command>emailregexp</command> has been set to allow
- local usernames,
- then this parameter would contain the email domain for all users
- (i.e. '@example.com').
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-attachments">
- <title>Attachments</title>
- <para>
- This page allows for setting restrictions and other parameters
- regarding attachments to bugs. For example, control size limitations
- and whether to allow pointing to external files via a URI.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-bug-change-policies">
- <title>Bug Change Policies</title>
- <para>
- Set policy on default behavior for bug change events. For example,
- choose which status to set a bug to when it is marked as a duplicate,
- and choose whether to allow bug reporters to set the priority or
- target milestone. Also allows for configuration of what changes
- should require the user to make a comment, described below.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- commenton*
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- All these fields allow you to dictate what changes can pass
- without comment, and which must have a comment from the
- person who changed them. Often, administrators will allow
- users to add themselves to the CC list, accept bugs, or
- change the Status Whiteboard without adding a comment as to
- their reasons for the change, yet require that most other
- changes come with an explanation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Set the "commenton" options according to your site policy. It
- is a wise idea to require comments when users resolve, reassign, or
- reopen bugs at the very least.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- It is generally far better to require a developer comment
- when resolving bugs than not. Few things are more annoying to bug
- database users than having a developer mark a bug "fixed" without
- any comment as to what the fix was (or even that it was truly
- fixed!)
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- noresolveonopenblockers
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This option will prevent users from resolving bugs as FIXED if
- they have unresolved dependencies. Only the FIXED resolution
- is affected. Users will be still able to resolve bugs to
- resolutions other than FIXED if they have unresolved dependent
- bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-bugfields">
- <title>Bug Fields</title>
- <para>
- The parameters in this section determine the default settings of
- several Bugzilla fields for new bugs, and also control whether
- certain fields are used. For example, choose whether to use the
- "target milestone" field or the "status whiteboard" field.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- useqacontact
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This allows you to define an email address for each component,
- in addition to that of the default assignee, who will be sent
- carbon copies of incoming bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- usestatuswhiteboard
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This defines whether you wish to have a free-form, overwritable field
- associated with each bug. The advantage of the Status Whiteboard is
- that it can be deleted or modified with ease, and provides an
- easily-searchable field for indexing some bugs that have some trait
- in common.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-bugmoving">
- <title>Bug Moving</title>
- <para>
- This page controls whether this Bugzilla installation allows certain
- users to move bugs to an external database. If bug moving is enabled,
- there are a number of parameters that control bug moving behaviors.
- For example, choose which users are allowed to move bugs, the location
- of the external database, and the default product and component that
- bugs moved <emphasis>from</emphasis> other bug databases to this
- Bugzilla installation are assigned to.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-dependency-graphs">
- <title>Dependency Graphs</title>
- <para>
- This page has one parameter that sets the location of a Web Dot
- server, or of the Web Dot binary on the local system, that is used
- to generate dependency graphs. Web Dot is a CGI program that creates
- images from <filename>.dot</filename> graphic description files. If
- no Web Dot server or binary is specified, then dependency graphs will
- be disabled.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-group-security">
- <title>Group Security</title>
- <para>
- Bugzilla allows for the creation of different groups, with the
- ability to restrict the visibility of bugs in a group to a set of
- specific users. Specific products can also be associated with
- groups, and users restricted to only see products in their groups.
- Several parameters are described in more detail below. Most of the
- configuration of groups and their relationship to products is done
- on the "Groups" and "Product" pages of the "Administration" area.
- The options on this page control global default behavior.
- For more information on Groups and Group Security, see
- <xref linkend="groups"/>
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- makeproductgroups
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Determines whether or not to automatically create groups
- when new products are created. If this is on, the groups will be
- used for querying bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- useentrygroupdefault
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bugzilla products can have a group associated with them, so that
- certain users can only see bugs in certain products. When this
- parameter is set to <quote>on</quote>, this
- causes the initial group controls on newly created products
- to place all newly-created bugs in the group
- having the same name as the product immediately.
- After a product is initially created, the group controls
- can be further adjusted without interference by
- this mechanism.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- usevisibilitygroups
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If selected, user visibility will be restricted to members of
- groups, as selected in the group configuration settings.
- Each user-defined group can be allowed to see members of selected
- other groups.
- For details on configuring groups (including the visibility
- restrictions) see <xref linkend="edit-groups"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- querysharegroup
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The name of the group of users who are allowed to share saved
- searches with one another. For more information on using
- saved searches, see <xref linkend="savedsearches"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="bzldap">
- <title>LDAP Authentication</title>
-
- <para>LDAP authentication is a module for Bugzilla's plugin
- authentication architecture. This page contains all the parameters
- necessary to configure Bugzilla for use with LDAP authentication.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The existing authentication
- scheme for Bugzilla uses email addresses as the primary user ID, and a
- password to authenticate that user. All places within Bugzilla that
- require a user ID (e.g assigning a bug) use the email
- address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather
- than replacing it. The initial log-in is done with a username and
- password for the LDAP directory. Bugzilla tries to bind to LDAP using
- those credentials and, if successful, tries to map this account to a
- Bugzilla account. If an LDAP mail attribute is defined, the value of this
- attribute is used, otherwise the "emailsuffix" parameter is appended to LDAP
- username to form a full email address. If an account for this address
- already exists in the Bugzilla installation, it will log in to that account.
- If no account for that email address exists, one is created at the time
- of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the "displayName"
- or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.) After
- authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by email
- address, not LDAP username. For example, bugs are still assigned by
- email address and users are still queried by email address.
- </para>
-
- <caution>
- <para>Because the Bugzilla account is not created until the first time
- a user logs in, a user who has not yet logged is unknown to Bugzilla.
- This means they cannot be used as an assignee or QA contact (default or
- otherwise), added to any CC list, or any other such operation. One
- possible workaround is the <filename>bugzilla_ldapsync.rb</filename>
- script in the
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-contrib">
- <filename class="directory">contrib</filename></glossterm>
- directory. Another possible solution is fixing
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201069">bug
- 201069</ulink>.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <para>Parameters required to use LDAP Authentication:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry id="param-user_verify_class_for_ldap">
- <term>user_verify_class</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>If you want to list <quote>LDAP</quote> here,
- make sure to have set up the other parameters listed below.
- Unless you have other (working) authentication methods listed as
- well, you may otherwise not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once
- you log out.
- If this happens to you, you will need to manually edit
- <filename>data/params</filename> and set user_verify_class to
- <quote>DB</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-LDAPserver">
- <term>LDAPserver</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This parameter should be set to the name (and optionally the
- port) of your LDAP server. If no port is specified, it assumes
- the default LDAP port of 389.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>ldap.company.com</quote>
- or <quote>ldap.company.com:3268</quote>
- </para>
- <para>You can also specify a LDAP URI, so as to use other
- protocols, such as LDAPS or LDAPI. If port was not specified in
- the URI, the default is either 389 or 636 for 'LDAP' and 'LDAPS'
- schemes respectively.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>ldap://ldap.company.com</quote>,
- <quote>ldaps://ldap.company.com</quote> or
- <quote>ldapi://%2fvar%2flib%2fldap_sock</quote>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-LDAPbinddn">
- <term>LDAPbinddn [Optional]</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Some LDAP servers will not allow an anonymous bind to search
- the directory. If this is the case with your configuration you
- should set the LDAPbinddn parameter to the user account Bugzilla
- should use instead of the anonymous bind.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>cn=default,cn=user:password</quote></para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-LDAPBaseDN">
- <term>LDAPBaseDN</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The LDAPBaseDN parameter should be set to the location in
- your LDAP tree that you would like to search for email addresses.
- Your uids should be unique under the DN specified here.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>ou=People,o=Company</quote></para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-LDAPuidattribute">
- <term>LDAPuidattribute</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The LDAPuidattribute parameter should be set to the attribute
- which contains the unique UID of your users. The value retrieved
- from this attribute will be used when attempting to bind as the
- user to confirm their password.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>uid</quote></para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-LDAPmailattribute">
- <term>LDAPmailattribute</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>The LDAPmailattribute parameter should be the name of the
- attribute which contains the email address your users will enter
- into the Bugzilla login boxes.
- </para>
- <para>Ex. <quote>mail</quote></para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="bzradius">
- <title>RADIUS Authentication</title>
-
- <para>
- RADIUS authentication is a module for Bugzilla's plugin
- authentication architecture. This page contains all the parameters
- necessary for configuring Bugzilla to use RADIUS authentication.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Most caveats that apply to LDAP authentication apply to RADIUS
- authentication as well. See <xref linkend="bzldap"/> for details.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>Parameters required to use RADIUS Authentication:</para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry id="param-user_verify_class_for_radius">
- <term>user_verify_class</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>If you want to list <quote>RADIUS</quote> here,
- make sure to have set up the other parameters listed below.
- Unless you have other (working) authentication methods listed as
- well, you may otherwise not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once
- you log out.
- If this happens to you, you will need to manually edit
- <filename>data/params</filename> and set user_verify_class to
- <quote>DB</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_server">
- <term>RADIUS_server</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This parameter should be set to the name (and optionally the
- port) of your RADIUS server.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_secret">
- <term>RADIUS_secret</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This parameter should be set to the RADIUS server's secret.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry id="param-RADIUS_email_suffix">
- <term>RADIUS_email_suffix</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Bugzilla needs an e-mail address for each user account.
- Therefore, it needs to determine the e-mail address corresponding
- to a RADIUS user.
- Bugzilla offers only a simple way to do this: it can concatenate
- a suffix to the RADIUS user name to convert it into an e-mail
- address.
- You can specify this suffix in the RADIUS_email_suffix parameter.
- </para>
- <para>If this simple solution does not work for you, you'll
- probably need to modify
- <filename>Bugzilla/Auth/Verify/RADIUS.pm</filename> to match your
- requirements.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-email">
- <title>Email</title>
- <para>
- This page contains all of the parameters for configuring how
- Bugzilla deals with the email notifications it sends. See below
- for a summary of important options.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- mail_delivery_method
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This is used to specify how email is sent, or if it is sent at
- all. There are several options included for different MTAs,
- along with two additional options that disable email sending.
- "Test" does not send mail, but instead saves it in
- <filename>data/mailer.testfile</filename> for later review.
- "None" disables email sending entirely.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- mailfrom
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This is the email address that will appear in the "From" field
- of all emails sent by this Bugzilla installation. Some email
- servers require mail to be from a valid email address, therefore
- it is recommended to choose a valid email address here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- sendmailnow
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When Bugzilla is using Sendmail older than 8.12, turning this option
- off will improve performance by not waiting for Sendmail to actually
- send mail. If Sendmail 8.12 or later is being used, there is
- nothing to gain by turning this off. If another MTA is being used,
- such as Postfix, then this option *must* be turned on (even if you
- are using the fake sendmail executable that Postfix provides).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- whinedays
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Set this to the number of days you want to let bugs go
- in the NEW or REOPENED state before notifying people they have
- untouched new bugs. If you do not plan to use this feature, simply
- do not set up the whining cron job described in the installation
- instructions, or set this value to "0" (never whine).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- globalwatcher
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- This allows you to define specific users who will
- receive notification each time a new bug in entered, or when
- an existing bug changes, according to the normal groupset
- permissions. It may be useful for sending notifications to a
- mailing-list, for instance.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-patchviewer">
- <title>Patch Viewer</title>
- <para>
- This page contains configuration parameters for the CVS server,
- Bonsai server and LXR server that Bugzilla will use to enable the
- features of the Patch Viewer. Bonsai is a tool that enables queries
- to a CVS tree. LXR is a tool that can cross reference and index source
- code.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-querydefaults">
- <title>Query Defaults</title>
- <para>
- This page controls the default behavior of Bugzilla in regards to
- several aspects of querying bugs. Options include what the default
- query options are, what the "My Bugs" page returns, whether users
- can freely add bugs to the quip list, and how many duplicate bugs are
- needed to add a bug to the "most frequently reported" list.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="param-shadowdatabase">
- <title>Shadow Database</title>
- <para>
- This page controls whether a shadow database is used, and all the
- parameters associated with the shadow database. Versions of Bugzilla
- prior to 3.2 used the MyISAM table type, which supports
- only table-level write locking. With MyISAM, any time someone is making a change to
- a bug, the entire table is locked until the write operation is complete.
- Locking for write also blocks reads until the write is complete.
- </para>
- <para>
- The <quote>shadowdb</quote> parameter was designed to get around
- this limitation. While only a single user is allowed to write to
- a table at a time, reads can continue unimpeded on a read-only
- shadow copy of the database.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- As of version 3.2, Bugzilla no longer uses the MyISAM table type.
- Instead, InnoDB is used, which can do transaction-based locking.
- Therefore, the limitations the Shadow Database feature was designed
- to workaround no longer exist.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="admin-usermatching">
- <title>User Matching</title>
- <para>
- The settings on this page control how users are selected and queried
- when adding a user to a bug. For example, users need to be selected
- when choosing who the bug is assigned to, adding to the CC list or
- selecting a QA contact. With the "usemenuforusers" parameter, it is
- possible to configure Bugzilla to
- display a list of users in the fields instead of an empty text field.
- This should only be used in Bugzilla installations with a small number
- of users. If users are selected via a text box, this page also
- contains parameters for how user names can be queried and matched
- when entered.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="useradmin">
- <title>User Administration</title>
-
- <section id="defaultuser">
- <title>Creating the Default User</title>
-
- <para>When you first run checksetup.pl after installing Bugzilla, it
- will prompt you for the administrative username (email address) and
- password for this "super user". If for some reason you delete
- the "super user" account, re-running checksetup.pl will again prompt
- you for this username and password.</para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>If you wish to add more administrative users, add them to
- the "admin" group and, optionally, edit the tweakparams, editusers,
- creategroups, editcomponents, and editkeywords groups to add the
- entire admin group to those groups (which is the case by default).
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="manageusers">
- <title>Managing Other Users</title>
-
- <section id="user-account-search">
- <title>Searching for existing users</title>
-
- <para>
- If you have <quote>editusers</quote> privileges or if you are allowed
- to grant privileges for some groups, the <quote>Users</quote> link
- will appear in the Administration page.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The first screen is a search form to search for existing user
- accounts. You can run searches based either on the user ID, real
- name or login name (i.e. the email address, or just the first part
- of the email address if the "emailsuffix" parameter is set).
- The search can be conducted
- in different ways using the listbox to the right of the text entry
- box. You can match by case-insensitive substring (the default),
- regular expression, a <emphasis>reverse</emphasis> regular expression
- match (which finds every user name which does NOT match the regular
- expression), or the exact string if you know exactly who you are
- looking for. The search can be restricted to users who are in a
- specific group. By default, the restriction is turned off.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The search returns a list of
- users matching your criteria. User properties can be edited by clicking
- the login name. The Account History of a user can be viewed by clicking
- the "View" link in the Account History column. The Account History
- displays changes that have been made to the user account, the time of
- the change and the user who made the change. For example, the Account
- History page will display details of when a user was added or removed
- from a group.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="createnewusers">
- <title>Creating new users</title>
-
- <section id="self-registration">
- <title>Self-registration</title>
-
- <para>
- By default, users can create their own user accounts by clicking the
- <quote>New Account</quote> link at the bottom of each page (assuming
- they aren't logged in as someone else already). If you want to disable
- this self-registration, or if you want to restrict who can create his
- own user account, you have to edit the <quote>createemailregexp</quote>
- parameter in the <quote>Configuration</quote> page, see
- <xref linkend="parameters" />.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="user-account-creation">
- <title>Accounts created by an administrator</title>
-
- <para>
- Users with <quote>editusers</quote> privileges, such as administrators,
- can create user accounts for other users:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>After logging in, click the "Users" link at the footer of
- the query page, and then click "Add a new user".</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the form presented. This page is self-explanatory.
- When done, click "Submit".</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Adding a user this way will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- send an email informing them of their username and password.
- While useful for creating dummy accounts (watchers which
- shuttle mail to another system, for instance, or email
- addresses which are a mailing list), in general it is
- preferable to log out and use the <quote>New Account</quote>
- button to create users, as it will pre-populate all the
- required fields and also notify the user of her account name
- and password.</para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="modifyusers">
- <title>Modifying Users</title>
-
- <para>Once you have found your user, you can change the following
- fields:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Login Name</emphasis>:
- This is generally the user's full email address. However, if you
- have are using the <quote>emailsuffix</quote> parameter, this may
- just be the user's login name. Note that users can now change their
- login names themselves (to any valid email address).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Real Name</emphasis>: The user's real name. Note that
- Bugzilla does not require this to create an account.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Password</emphasis>:
- You can change the user's password here. Users can automatically
- request a new password, so you shouldn't need to do this often.
- If you want to disable an account, see Disable Text below.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Bugmail Disabled</emphasis>:
- Mark this checkbox to disable bugmail and whinemail completely
- for this account. This checkbox replaces the data/nomail file
- which existed in older versions of Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Disable Text</emphasis>:
- If you type anything in this box, including just a space, the
- user is prevented from logging in, or making any changes to
- bugs via the web interface.
- The HTML you type in this box is presented to the user when
- they attempt to perform these actions, and should explain
- why the account was disabled.
- </para>
- <para>
- Users with disabled accounts will continue to receive
- mail from Bugzilla; furthermore, they will not be able
- to log in themselves to change their own preferences and
- stop it. If you want an account (disabled or active) to
- stop receiving mail, simply check the
- <quote>Bugmail Disabled</quote> checkbox above.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Even users whose accounts have been disabled can still
- submit bugs via the e-mail gateway, if one exists.
- The e-mail gateway should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be
- enabled for secure installations of Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </note>
- <warning>
- <para>
- Don't disable all the administrator accounts!
- </para>
- </warning>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>&lt;groupname&gt;</emphasis>:
- If you have created some groups, e.g. "securitysensitive", then
- checkboxes will appear here to allow you to add users to, or
- remove them from, these groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>canconfirm</emphasis>:
- This field is only used if you have enabled the "unconfirmed"
- status. If you enable this for a user,
- that user can then move bugs from "Unconfirmed" to a "Confirmed"
- status (e.g.: "New" status).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>creategroups</emphasis>:
- This option will allow a user to create and destroy groups in
- Bugzilla.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis>:
- Unless a user has this bit set, they can only edit those bugs
- for which they are the assignee or the reporter. Even if this
- option is unchecked, users can still add comments to bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editcomponents</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to create new products and components,
- as well as modify and destroy those that have no bugs associated
- with them. If a product or component has bugs associated with it,
- those bugs must be moved to a different product or component
- before Bugzilla will allow them to be destroyed.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editkeywords</emphasis>:
- If you use Bugzilla's keyword functionality, enabling this
- feature allows a user to create and destroy keywords. As always,
- the keywords for existing bugs containing the keyword the user
- wishes to destroy must be changed before Bugzilla will allow it
- to die.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>editusers</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to do what you're doing right now: edit
- other users. This will allow those with the right to do so to
- remove administrator privileges from other users or grant them to
- themselves. Enable with care.</para>
- </listitem>
-
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>tweakparams</emphasis>:
- This flag allows a user to change Bugzilla's Params
- (using <filename>editparams.cgi</filename>.)</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>&lt;productname&gt;</emphasis>:
- This allows an administrator to specify the products
- in which a user can see bugs. If you turn on the
- <quote>makeproductgroups</quote> parameter in
- the Group Security Panel in the Parameters page,
- then Bugzilla creates one group per product (at the time you create
- the product), and this group has exactly the same name as the
- product itself. Note that for products that already exist when
- the parameter is turned on, the corresponding group will not be
- created. The user must still have the <quote>editbugs</quote>
- privilege to edit bugs in these products.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="user-account-deletion">
- <title>Deleting Users</title>
- <para>
- If the <quote>allowuserdeletion</quote> parameter is turned on, see
- <xref linkend="parameters" />, then you can also delete user accounts.
- Note that this is most of the time not the best thing to do. If only
- a warning in a yellow box is displayed, then the deletion is safe.
- If a warning is also displayed in a red box, then you should NOT try
- to delete the user account, else you will get referential integrity
- problems in your database, which can lead to unexpected behavior,
- such as bugs not appearing in bug lists anymore, or data displaying
- incorrectly. You have been warned!
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="impersonatingusers">
- <title>Impersonating Users</title>
-
- <para>
- There may be times when an administrator would like to do something as
- another user. The <command>sudo</command> feature may be used to do
- this.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- To use the sudo feature, you must be in the
- <emphasis>bz_sudoers</emphasis> group. By default, all
- administrators are in this group.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- If you have access to this feature, you may start a session by
- going to the Edit Users page, Searching for a user and clicking on
- their login. You should see a link below their login name titled
- "Impersonate this user". Click on the link. This will take you
- to a page where you will see a description of the feature and
- instructions for using it. After reading the text, simply
- enter the login of the user you would like to impersonate, provide
- a short message explaining why you are doing this, and press the
- button.</para>
-
- <para>
- As long as you are using this feature, everything you do will be done
- as if you were logged in as the user you are impersonating.</para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- The user you are impersonating will not be told about what you are
- doing. If you do anything that results in mail being sent, that
- mail will appear to be from the user you are impersonating. You
- should be extremely careful while using this feature.</para>
- </warning>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="classifications" xreflabel="Classifications">
- <title>Classifications</title>
-
- <para>Classifications tend to be used in order to group several related
- products into one distinct entity.</para>
-
- <para>The classifications layer is disabled by default; it can be turned
- on or off using the useclassification parameter,
- in the <emphasis>Bug Fields</emphasis> section of the edit parameters screen.</para>
-
- <para>Access to the administration of classifications is controlled using
- the <emphasis>editclassifications</emphasis> system group, which defines
- a privilege for creating, destroying, and editing classifications.</para>
-
- <para>When activated, classifications will introduce an additional
- step when filling bugs (dedicated to classification selection), and they
- will also appear in the advanced search form.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="products" xreflabel="Products">
- <title>Products</title>
-
- <para>
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-product" baseform="product">
- Products</glossterm> typically represent real-world
- shipping products. Products can be given
- <xref linkend="classifications"/>.
- For example, if a company makes computer games,
- they could have a classification of "Games", and a separate
- product for each game. This company might also have a
- <quote>Common</quote> product for units of technology used
- in multiple games, and perhaps a few special products that
- represent items that are not actually shipping products
- (for example, "Website", or "Administration").
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Many of Bugzilla's settings are configurable on a per-product
- basis. The number of <quote>votes</quote> available to
- users is set per-product, as is the number of votes
- required to move a bug automatically from the UNCONFIRMED
- status to the NEW status.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- When creating or editing products the following options are
- available:
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Product
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The name of the product
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Description
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A brief description of the product
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- URL describing milestones for this product
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If there is reference URL, provide it here
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Default milestone
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select the default milestone for this product.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Closed for bug entry
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select this box to prevent new bugs from being
- entered against this product.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Maximum votes per person
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Maximum votes a user is allowed to give for this
- product
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Maximum votes a person can put on a single bug
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Maximum votes a user is allowed to give for this
- product in a single bug
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Confirmation threshold
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Number of votes needed to automatically remove any
- bug against this product from the UNCONFIRMED state
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Version
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Specify which version of the product bugs will be
- entered against.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- Create chart datasets for this product
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select to make chart datasets available for this product.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <para>
- When editing a product there is also a link to edit Group Access Controls,
- see <xref linkend="product-group-controls"/>.
- </para>
-
- <section id="create-product">
- <title>Creating New Products</title>
-
- <para>
- To create a new product:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select <quote>Administration</quote> from the footer and then
- choose <quote>Products</quote> from the main administration page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select the <quote>Add</quote> link in the bottom right.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter the name of the product and a description. The
- Description field may contain HTML.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When the product is created, Bugzilla will give a message
- stating that a component must be created before any bugs can
- be entered against the new product. Follow the link to create
- a new component. See <xref linkend="components"/> for more
- information.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="edit-products">
- <title>Editing Products</title>
-
- <para>
- To edit an existing product, click the "Products" link from the
- "Administration" page. If the 'useclassification' parameter is
- turned on, a table of existing classifications is displayed,
- including an "Unclassified" category. The table indicates how many products
- are in each classification. Click on the classification name to see its
- products. If the 'useclassification' parameter is not in use, the table
- lists all products directly. The product table summarizes the information
- about the product defined
- when the product was created. Click on the product name to edit these
- properties, and to access links to other product attributes such as the
- product's components, versions, milestones, and group access controls.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="comps-vers-miles-products">
- <title>Adding or Editing Components, Versions and Target Milestones</title>
- <para>
- To edit existing, or add new, Components, Versions or Target Milestones
- to a Product, select the "Edit Components", "Edit Versions" or "Edit
- Milestones" links from the "Edit Product" page. A table of existing
- Components, Versions or Milestones is displayed. Click on a item name
- to edit the properties of that item. Below the table is a link to add
- a new Component, Version or Milestone.
- </para>
- <para>
- For more information on components, see <xref linkend="components"/>.
- </para>
- <para>
- For more information on versions, see <xref linkend="versions"/>.
- </para>
- <para>
- For more information on milestones, see <xref linkend="milestones"/>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="product-group-controls">
- <title>Assigning Group Controls to Products</title>
-
- <para>
- On the <quote>Edit Product</quote> page, there is a link called
- <quote>Edit Group Access Controls</quote>. The settings on this page
- control the relationship of the groups to the product being edited.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Group Access Controls are an important aspect of using groups for
- isolating products and restricting access to bugs filed against those
- products. For more information on groups, including how to create, edit
- add users to, and alter permission of, see <xref linkend="groups"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- After selecting the "Edit Group Access Controls" link from the "Edit
- Product" page, a table containing all user-defined groups for this
- Bugzilla installation is displayed. The system groups that are created
- when Bugzilla is installed are not applicable to Group Access Controls.
- Below is description of what each of these fields means.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Groups may be applicable (e.g bugs in this product can be associated
- with this group) , default (e.g. bugs in this product are in this group
- by default), and mandatory (e.g. bugs in this product must be associated
- with this group) for each product. Groups can also control access
- to bugs for a given product, or be used to make bugs for a product
- totally read-only unless the group restrictions are met. The best way to
- understand these relationships is by example. See
- <xref linkend="group-control-examples"/> for examples of
- product and group relationships.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Products and Groups are not limited to a one-to-one relationship.
- Multiple groups can be associated with the same product, and groups
- can be associated with more than one product.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- If any group has <emphasis>Entry</emphasis> selected, then the
- product will restrict bug entry to only those users
- who are members of <emphasis>all</emphasis> the groups with
- <emphasis>Entry</emphasis> selected.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If any group has <emphasis>Canedit</emphasis> selected,
- then the product will be read-only for any users
- who are not members of <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the groups with
- <emphasis>Canedit</emphasis> selected. <emphasis>Only</emphasis> users who
- are members of all the <emphasis>Canedit</emphasis> groups
- will be able to edit bugs for this product. This is an additional
- restriction that enables finer-grained control over products rather
- than just all-or-nothing access levels.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The following settings let you
- choose privileges on a <emphasis>per-product basis</emphasis>.
- This is a convenient way to give privileges to
- some users for some products only, without having
- to give them global privileges which would affect
- all products.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Any group having <emphasis>editcomponents</emphasis>
- selected allows users who are in this group to edit all
- aspects of this product, including components, milestones
- and versions.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Any group having <emphasis>canconfirm</emphasis> selected
- allows users who are in this group to confirm bugs
- in this product.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Any group having <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis> selected allows
- users who are in this group to edit all fields of
- bugs in this product.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The <emphasis>MemberControl</emphasis> and
- <emphasis>OtherControl</emphasis> are used in tandem to determine which
- bugs will be placed in this group. The only allowable combinations of
- these two parameters are listed in a table on the "Edit Group Access Controls"
- page. Consult this table for details on how these fields can be used.
- Examples of different uses are described below.
- </para>
-
- <section id="group-control-examples">
- <title>Common Applications of Group Controls</title>
-
- <para>
- The use of groups is best explained by providing examples that illustrate
- configurations for common use cases. The examples follow a common syntax:
- <emphasis>Group: Entry, MemberControl, OtherControl, CanEdit,
- EditComponents, CanConfirm, EditBugs</emphasis>. Where "Group" is the name
- of the group being edited for this product. The other fields all
- correspond to the table on the "Edit Group Access Controls" page. If any
- of these options are not listed, it means they are not checked.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Basic Product/Group Restriction
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Suppose there is a product called "Bar". The
- "Bar" product can only have bugs entered against it by users in the
- group "Foo". Additionally, bugs filed against product "Bar" must stay
- restricted to users to "Foo" at all times. Furthermore, only members
- of group "Foo" can edit bugs filed against product "Bar", even if other
- users could see the bug. This arrangement would achieved by the
- following:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product Bar:
-foo: ENTRY, MANDATORY/MANDATORY, CANEDIT
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Perhaps such strict restrictions are not needed for product "Bar". A
- more lenient way to configure product "Bar" and group "Foo" would be:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product Bar:
-foo: ENTRY, SHOWN/SHOWN, EDITCOMPONENTS, CANCONFIRM, EDITBUGS
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- The above indicates that for product "Bar", members of group "Foo" can
- enter bugs. Any one with permission to edit a bug against product "Bar"
- can put the bug
- in group "Foo", even if they themselves are not in "Foo". Anyone in group
- "Foo" can edit all aspects of the components of product "Bar", can confirm
- bugs against product "Bar", and can edit all fields of any bug against
- product "Bar".
- </para>
-
- <para>
- General User Access With Security Group
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To permit any user to file bugs against "Product A",
- and to permit any user to submit those bugs into a
- group called "Security":
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product A:
-security: SHOWN/SHOWN
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- General User Access With A Security Product
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To permit any user to file bugs against product called "Security"
- while keeping those bugs from becoming visible to anyone
- outside the group "SecurityWorkers" (unless a member of the
- "SecurityWorkers" group removes that restriction):
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product Security:
-securityworkers: DEFAULT/MANDATORY
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Product Isolation With a Common Group
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To permit users of "Product A" to access the bugs for
- "Product A", users of "Product B" to access the bugs for
- "Product B", and support staff, who are members of the "Support
- Group" to access both, three groups are needed:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Support Group: Contains members of the support staff.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>AccessA Group: Contains users of product A and the Support group.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>AccessB Group: Contains users of product B and the Support group.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- Once these three groups are defined, the product group controls
- can be set to:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product A:
-AccessA: ENTRY, MANDATORY/MANDATORY
-Product B:
-AccessB: ENTRY, MANDATORY/MANDATORY
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Perhaps the "Support Group" wants more control. For example,
- the "Support Group" could be permitted to make bugs inaccessible to
- users of both groups "AccessA" and "AccessB".
- Then, the "Support Group" could be permitted to publish
- bugs relevant to all users in a third product (let's call it
- "Product Common") that is read-only
- to anyone outside the "Support Group". In this way the "Support Group"
- could control bugs that should be seen by both groups.
- That configuration would be:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product A:
-AccessA: ENTRY, MANDATORY/MANDATORY
-Support: SHOWN/NA
-Product B:
-AccessB: ENTRY, MANDATORY/MANDATORY
-Support: SHOWN/NA
-Product Common:
-Support: ENTRY, DEFAULT/MANDATORY, CANEDIT
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Make a Product Read Only
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Sometimes a product is retired and should no longer have
- new bugs filed against it (for example, an older version of a software
- product that is no longer supported). A product can be made read-only
- by creating a group called "readonly" and adding products to the
- group as needed:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-Product A:
-ReadOnly: ENTRY, NA/NA, CANEDIT
- </programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- For more information on Groups outside of how they relate to products
- see <xref linkend="groups"/>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="components" xreflabel="Components">
- <title>Components</title>
-
- <para>Components are subsections of a Product. E.g. the computer game
- you are designing may have a "UI"
- component, an "API" component, a "Sound System" component, and a
- "Plugins" component, each overseen by a different programmer. It
- often makes sense to divide Components in Bugzilla according to the
- natural divisions of responsibility within your Product or
- company.</para>
-
- <para>
- Each component has a default assignee and (if you turned it on in the parameters),
- a QA Contact. The default assignee should be the primary person who fixes bugs in
- that component. The QA Contact should be the person who will ensure
- these bugs are completely fixed. The Assignee, QA Contact, and Reporter
- will get email when new bugs are created in this Component and when
- these bugs change. Default Assignee and Default QA Contact fields only
- dictate the
- <emphasis>default assignments</emphasis>;
- these can be changed on bug submission, or at any later point in
- a bug's life.</para>
-
- <para>To create a new Component:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the <quote>Edit components</quote> link
- from the <quote>Edit product</quote> page</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select the <quote>Add</quote> link in the bottom right.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the <quote>Component</quote> field, a
- short <quote>Description</quote>, the
- <quote>Default Assignee</quote>, <quote>Default CC List</quote>
- and <quote>Default QA Contact</quote> (if enabled).
- The <quote>Component Description</quote> field may contain a
- limited subset of HTML tags. The <quote>Default Assignee</quote>
- field must be a login name already existing in the Bugzilla database.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="versions">
- <title>Versions</title>
-
- <para>Versions are the revisions of the product, such as "Flinders
- 3.1", "Flinders 95", and "Flinders 2000". Version is not a multi-select
- field; the usual practice is to select the earliest version known to have
- the bug.
- </para>
-
- <para>To create and edit Versions:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>From the "Edit product" screen, select "Edit Versions"</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>You will notice that the product already has the default
- version "undefined". Click the "Add" link in the bottom right.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Enter the name of the Version. This field takes text only.
- Then click the "Add" button.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="milestones">
- <title>Milestones</title>
-
- <para>Milestones are "targets" that you plan to get a bug fixed by. For
- example, you have a bug that you plan to fix for your 3.0 release, it
- would be assigned the milestone of 3.0.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Milestone options will only appear for a Product if you turned
- on the "usetargetmilestone" Param in the "Edit Parameters" screen.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>To create new Milestones, set Default Milestones, and set
- Milestone URL:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "Edit milestones" from the "Edit product" page.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Select "Add" in the bottom right corner.
- text</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Enter the name of the Milestone in the "Milestone" field. You
- can optionally set the "sortkey", which is a positive or negative
- number (-32768 to 32767) that defines where in the list this particular
- milestone appears. This is because milestones often do not
- occur in alphanumeric order For example, "Future" might be
- after "Release 1.2". Select "Add".</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>From the Edit product screen, you can enter the URL of a
- page which gives information about your milestones and what
- they mean. </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-overview">
- <title>Flags</title>
-
- <para>
- Flags are a way to attach a specific status to a bug or attachment,
- either <quote>+</quote> or <quote>-</quote>. The meaning of these symbols depends on the text
- the flag itself, but contextually they could mean pass/fail,
- accept/reject, approved/denied, or even a simple yes/no. If your site
- allows requestable flags, then users may set a flag to <quote>?</quote> as a
- request to another user that they look at the bug/attachment, and set
- the flag to its correct status.
- </para>
-
- <section id="flags-simpleexample">
- <title>A Simple Example</title>
-
- <para>
- A developer might want to ask their manager,
- <quote>Should we fix this bug before we release version 2.0?</quote>
- They might want to do this for a <emphasis>lot</emphasis> of bugs,
- so it would be nice to streamline the process...
- </para>
- <para>
- In Bugzilla, it would work this way:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The Bugzilla administrator creates a flag type called
- <quote>blocking2.0</quote> that shows up on all bugs in
- your product.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- It shows up on the <quote>Show Bug</quote> screen
- as the text <quote>blocking2.0</quote> with a drop-down box next
- to it. The drop-down box contains four values: an empty space,
- <quote>?</quote>, <quote>-</quote>, and <quote>+</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The developer sets the flag to <quote>?</quote>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The manager sees the <computeroutput>blocking2.0</computeroutput>
- flag with a <quote>?</quote> value.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If the manager thinks the feature should go into the product
- before version 2.0 can be released, he sets the flag to
- <quote>+</quote>. Otherwise, he sets it to <quote>-</quote>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Now, every Bugzilla user who looks at the bug knows whether or
- not the bug needs to be fixed before release of version 2.0.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-about">
- <title>About Flags</title>
-
- <section id="flag-values">
- <title>Values</title>
- <para>
- Flags can have three values:
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput>?</computeroutput></term>
- <listitem><simpara>
- A user is requesting that a status be set. (Think of it as 'A question is being asked'.)
- </simpara></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput>-</computeroutput></term>
- <listitem><simpara>
- The status has been set negatively. (The question has been answered <quote>no</quote>.)
- </simpara></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term><computeroutput>+</computeroutput></term>
- <listitem><simpara>
- The status has been set positively.
- (The question has been answered <quote>yes</quote>.)
- </simpara></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Actually, there's a fourth value a flag can have --
- <quote>unset</quote> -- which shows up as a blank space. This
- just means that nobody has expressed an opinion (or asked
- someone else to express an opinion) about this bug or attachment.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flag-askto">
- <title>Using flag requests</title>
- <para>
- If a flag has been defined as 'requestable', and a user has enough privileges
- to request it (see below), the user can set the flag's status to <quote>?</quote>.
- This status indicates that someone (a.k.a. <quote>the requester</quote>) is asking
- someone else to set the flag to either <quote>+</quote> or <quote>-</quote>.
- </para>
- <para>
- If a flag has been defined as 'specifically requestable',
- a text box will appear next to the flag into which the requester may
- enter a Bugzilla username. That named person (a.k.a. <quote>the requestee</quote>)
- will receive an email notifying them of the request, and pointing them
- to the bug/attachment in question.
- </para>
- <para>
- If a flag has <emphasis>not</emphasis> been defined as 'specifically requestable',
- then no such text-box will appear. A request to set this flag cannot be made of
- any specific individual, but must be asked <quote>to the wind</quote>.
- A requester may <quote>ask the wind</quote> on any flag simply by leaving the text-box blank.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flag-types">
- <title>Two Types of Flags</title>
-
- <para>
- Flags can go in two places: on an attachment, or on a bug.
- </para>
-
- <section id="flag-type-attachment">
- <title>Attachment Flags</title>
-
- <para>
- Attachment flags are used to ask a question about a specific
- attachment on a bug.
- </para>
- <para>
- Many Bugzilla installations use this to
- request that one developer <quote>review</quote> another
- developer's code before they check it in. They attach the code to
- a bug report, and then set a flag on that attachment called
- <quote>review</quote> to
- <computeroutput>review?boss@domain.com</computeroutput>.
- boss@domain.com is then notified by email that
- he has to check out that attachment and approve it or deny it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For a Bugzilla user, attachment flags show up in three places:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- On the list of attachments in the <quote>Show Bug</quote>
- screen, you can see the current state of any flags that
- have been set to ?, +, or -. You can see who asked about
- the flag (the requester), and who is being asked (the
- requestee).
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When you <quote>Edit</quote> an attachment, you can
- see any settable flag, along with any flags that have
- already been set. This <quote>Edit Attachment</quote>
- screen is where you set flags to ?, -, +, or unset them.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Requests are listed in the <quote>Request Queue</quote>, which
- is accessible from the <quote>My Requests</quote> link (if you are
- logged in) or <quote>Requests</quote> link (if you are logged out)
- visible in the footer of all pages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="flag-type-bug">
- <title>Bug Flags</title>
-
- <para>
- Bug flags are used to set a status on the bug itself. You can
- see Bug Flags in the <quote>Show Bug</quote> and <quote>Requests</quote>
- screens, as described above.
- </para>
- <para>
- Only users with enough privileges (see below) may set flags on bugs.
- This doesn't necessarily include the assignee, reporter, or users with the
- <computeroutput>editbugs</computeroutput> permission.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-admin">
- <title>Administering Flags</title>
-
- <para>
- If you have the <quote>editcomponents</quote> permission, you can
- edit Flag Types from the main administration page. Clicking the
- <quote>Flags</quote> link will bring you to the <quote>Administer
- Flag Types</quote> page. Here, you can select whether you want
- to create (or edit) a Bug flag, or an Attachment flag.
- </para>
- <para>
- No matter which you choose, the interface is the same, so we'll
- just go over it once.
- </para>
-
- <section id="flags-edit">
- <title>Editing a Flag</title>
- <para>
- To edit a flag's properties, just click on the <quote>Edit</quote>
- link next to the flag's description. That will take you to the same
- form as described below (<xref linkend="flags-create"/>).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create">
- <title>Creating a Flag</title>
-
- <para>
- When you click on the <quote>Create a Flag Type for...</quote>
- link, you will be presented with a form. Here is what the fields in
- the form mean:
- </para>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-name">
- <title>Name</title>
- <para>
- This is the name of the flag. This will be displayed
- to Bugzilla users who are looking at or setting the flag.
- The name may contain any valid Unicode characters except commas
- and spaces.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-description">
- <title>Description</title>
- <para>
- The description describes the flag in more detail. It is visible
- in a tooltip when hovering over a flag either in the <quote>Show Bug</quote>
- or <quote>Edit Attachment</quote> pages. This field can be as
- long as you like, and can contain any character you want.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-category">
- <title>Category</title>
-
- <para>
- Default behaviour for a newly-created flag is to appear on
- products and all components, which is why <quote>__Any__:__Any__</quote>
- is already entered in the <quote>Inclusions</quote> box.
- If this is not your desired behaviour, you must either set some
- exclusions (for products on which you don't want the flag to appear),
- or you must remove <quote>__Any__:__Any__</quote> from the Inclusions box
- and define products/components specifically for this flag.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To create an Inclusion, select a Product from the top drop-down box.
- You may also select a specific component from the bottom drop-down box.
- (Setting <quote>__Any__</quote> for Product translates to,
- <quote>all the products in this Bugzilla</quote>.
- Selecting <quote>__Any__</quote> in the Component field means
- <quote>all components in the selected product.</quote>)
- Selections made, press <quote>Include</quote>, and your
- Product/Component pairing will show up in the <quote>Inclusions</quote> box on the right.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To create an Exclusion, the process is the same; select a Product from the
- top drop-down box, select a specific component if you want one, and press
- <quote>Exclude</quote>. The Product/Component pairing will show up in the
- <quote>Exclusions</quote> box on the right.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This flag <emphasis>will</emphasis> and <emphasis>can</emphasis> be set for any
- products/components that appearing in the <quote>Inclusions</quote> box
- (or which fall under the appropriate <quote>__Any__</quote>).
- This flag <emphasis>will not</emphasis> appear (and therefore cannot be set) on
- any products appearing in the <quote>Exclusions</quote> box.
- <emphasis> IMPORTANT: Exclusions override inclusions.</emphasis>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You may select a Product without selecting a specific Component,
- but you can't select a Component without a Product, or to select a
- Component that does not belong to the named Product. If you do so,
- Bugzilla will display an error message, even if all your products
- have a component by that name.
- </para>
-
- <para><emphasis>Example:</emphasis> Let's say you have a product called
- <quote>Jet Plane</quote> that has thousands of components. You want
- to be able to ask if a problem should be fixed in the next model of
- plane you release. We'll call the flag <quote>fixInNext</quote>.
- But, there's one component in <quote>Jet Plane,</quote>
- called <quote>Pilot.</quote> It doesn't make sense to release a
- new pilot, so you don't want to have the flag show up in that component.
- So, you include <quote>Jet Plane:__Any__</quote> and you exclude
- <quote>Jet Plane:Pilot</quote>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-sortkey">
- <title>Sort Key</title>
- <para>
- Flags normally show up in alphabetical order. If you want them to
- show up in a different order, you can use this key set the order on each flag.
- Flags with a lower sort key will appear before flags with a higher
- sort key. Flags that have the same sort key will be sorted alphabetically,
- but they will still be after flags with a lower sort key, and before flags
- with a higher sort key.
- </para>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Example:</emphasis> I have AFlag (Sort Key 100), BFlag (Sort Key 10),
- CFlag (Sort Key 10), and DFlag (Sort Key 1). These show up in
- the order: DFlag, BFlag, CFlag, AFlag.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-active">
- <title>Active</title>
- <para>
- Sometimes, you might want to keep old flag information in the
- Bugzilla database, but stop users from setting any new flags of this type.
- To do this, uncheck <quote>active</quote>. Deactivated
- flags will still show up in the UI if they are ?, +, or -, but they
- may only be cleared (unset), and cannot be changed to a new value.
- Once a deactivated flag is cleared, it will completely disappear from a
- bug/attachment, and cannot be set again.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-requestable">
- <title>Requestable</title>
- <para>
- New flags are, by default, <quote>requestable</quote>, meaning that they
- offer users the <quote>?</quote> option, as well as <quote>+</quote>
- and <quote>-</quote>.
- To remove the ? option, uncheck <quote>requestable</quote>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-specific">
- <title>Specifically Requestable</title>
- <para>
- By default this box is checked for new flags, meaning that users may make
- flag requests of specific individuals. Unchecking this box will remove the
- text box next to a flag; if it is still requestable, then requests may
- only be made <quote>to the wind.</quote> Removing this after specific
- requests have been made will not remove those requests; that data will
- stay in the database (though it will no longer appear to the user).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-multiplicable">
- <title>Multiplicable</title>
- <para>
- Any flag with <quote>Multiplicable</quote> set (default for new flags is 'on')
- may be set more than once. After being set once, an unset flag
- of the same type will appear below it with <quote>addl.</quote> (short for
- <quote>additional</quote>) before the name. There is no limit to the number of
- times a Multiplicable flags may be set on the same bug/attachment.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-field-cclist">
- <title>CC List</title>
-
- <para>
- If you want certain users to be notified every time this flag is
- set to ?, -, +, or unset, add them here. This is a comma-separated
- list of email addresses that need not be restricted to Bugzilla usernames.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-grant-group">
- <title>Grant Group</title>
- <para>
- When this field is set to some given group, only users in the group
- can set the flag to <quote>+</quote> and <quote>-</quote>. This
- field does not affect who can request or cancel the flag. For that,
- see the <quote>Request Group</quote> field below. If this field
- is left blank, all users can set or delete this flag. This field is
- useful for restricting which users can approve or reject requests.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="flags-create-request-group">
- <title>Request Group</title>
- <para>
- When this field is set to some given group, only users in the group
- can request or cancel this flag. Note that this field has no effect
- if the <quote>grant group</quote> field is empty. You can set the
- value of this field to a different group, but both fields have to be
- set to a group for this field to have an effect.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section> <!-- flags-create -->
-
- <section id="flags-delete">
- <title>Deleting a Flag</title>
-
- <para>
- When you are at the <quote>Administer Flag Types</quote> screen,
- you will be presented with a list of Bug flags and a list of Attachment
- Flags.
- </para>
- <para>
- To delete a flag, click on the <quote>Delete</quote> link next to
- the flag description.
- </para>
- <warning>
- <para>
- Once you delete a flag, it is <emphasis>gone</emphasis> from
- your Bugzilla. All the data for that flag will be deleted.
- Everywhere that flag was set, it will disappear,
- and you cannot get that data back. If you want to keep flag data,
- but don't want anybody to set any new flags or change current flags,
- unset <quote>active</quote> in the flag Edit form.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </section>
-
- </section> <!-- flags-admin -->
-
- <!-- XXX We should add a "Uses of Flags" section, here, with examples. -->
-
- </section> <!-- flags -->
-
- <section id="keywords">
- <title>Keywords</title>
-
- <para>
- The administrator can define keywords which can be used to tag and
- categorise bugs. For example, the keyword "regression" is commonly used.
- A company might have a policy stating all regressions
- must be fixed by the next release - this keyword can make tracking those
- bugs much easier.
- </para>
- <para>
- Keywords are global, rather than per-product. If the administrator changes
- a keyword currently applied to any bugs, the keyword cache must be rebuilt
- using the <xref linkend="sanitycheck"/> script. Currently keywords can not
- be marked obsolete to prevent future usage.
- </para>
- <para>
- Keywords can be created, edited or deleted by clicking the "Keywords"
- link in the admin page. There are two fields for each keyword - the keyword
- itself and a brief description. Once created, keywords can be selected
- and applied to individual bugs in that bug's "Details" section.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="custom-fields">
- <title>Custom Fields</title>
-
- <para>
- The release of Bugzilla 3.0 added the ability to create Custom Fields.
- Custom Fields are treated like any other field - they can be set in bugs
- and used for search queries. Administrators should keep in mind that
- adding too many fields can make the user interface more complicated and
- harder to use. Custom Fields should be added only when necessary and with
- careful consideration.
- </para>
- <tip>
- <para>
- Before adding a Custom Field, make sure that Bugzilla can not already
- do the desired behavior. Many Bugzilla options are not enabled by
- default, and many times Administrators find that simply enabling
- certain options that already exist is sufficient.
- </para>
- </tip>
- <para>
- Administrators can manage Custom Fields using the
- <quote>Custom Fields</quote> link on the Administration page. The Custom
- Fields administration page displays a list of Custom Fields, if any exist,
- and a link to "Add a new custom field".
- </para>
-
- <section id="add-custom-fields">
- <title>Adding Custom Fields</title>
-
- <para>
- To add a new Custom Field, click the "Add a new custom field" link. This
- page displays several options for the new field, described below.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The following attributes must be set for each new custom field:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Name:</emphasis>
- The name of the field in the database, used internally. This name
- MUST begin with <quote>cf_</quote> to prevent confusion with
- standard fields. If this string is omitted, it will
- be automatically added to the name entered.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Description:</emphasis>
- A brief string which is used as the label for this Custom Field.
- That is the string that users will see, and should be
- short and explicit.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Type:</emphasis>
- The type of field to create. There are
- several types available:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- Large Text Box: A multiple line box for entering free text.
- </member>
- <member>
- Free Text: A single line box for entering free text.
- </member>
- <member>
- Multiple-Selection Box: A list box where multiple options
- can be selected. After creating this field, it must be edited
- to add the selection options. See
- <xref linkend="edit-values-list" /> for information about
- editing legal values.
- </member>
- <member>
- Drop Down: A list box where only one option can be selected.
- After creating this field, it must be edited to add the
- selection options. See
- <xref linkend="edit-values-list" /> for information about
- editing legal values.
- </member>
- <member>
- Date/Time: A date field. This field appears with a
- calendar widget for choosing the date.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Sortkey:</emphasis>
- Integer that determines in which order Custom Fields are
- displayed in the User Interface, especially when viewing a bug.
- Fields with lower values are displayed first.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Can be set on bug creation:</emphasis>
- Boolean that determines whether this field can be set on
- bug creation. If not selected, then a bug must be created
- before this field can be set. See <xref linkend="bugreports" />
- for information about filing bugs.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Displayed in bugmail for new bugs:</emphasis>
- Boolean that determines whether the value set on this field
- should appear in bugmail when the bug is filed. This attribute
- has no effect if the field cannot be set on bug creation.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Is obsolete:</emphasis>
- Boolean that determines whether this field should
- be displayed at all. Obsolete Custom Fields are hidden.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="edit-custom-fields">
- <title>Editing Custom Fields</title>
-
- <para>
- As soon as a Custom Field is created, its name and type cannot be
- changed. If this field is a drop down menu, its legal values can
- be set as described in <xref linkend="edit-values-list" />. All
- other attributes can be edited as described above.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="delete-custom-fields">
- <title>Deleting Custom Fields</title>
-
- <para>
- It is only possible to delete obsolete Custom Fields
- if the field has never been used in the database.
- To remove a field which already has content,
- mark it as obsolete.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="edit-values">
- <title>Legal Values</title>
-
- <para>
- Since Bugzilla 2.20 RC1, legal values for Operating Systems, platforms,
- bug priorities and severities can be edited from the User Interface
- directly. This means that it is no longer required to manually edit
- <filename>localconfig</filename>. Starting with Bugzilla 2.23.3,
- the list of valid resolutions can be customized from the same interface.
- Since Bugzilla 3.1.1 the list of valid bug statuses can be customized
- as well.
- </para>
-
- <section id="edit-values-list">
- <title>Viewing/Editing legal values</title>
- <para>
- Editing legal values requires <quote>admin</quote> privileges.
- Select "Legal Values" from the Administration page. A list of all
- fields, both system fields and Custom Fields, for which legal values
- can be edited appears. Click a field name to edit its legal values.
- </para>
- <para>
- There is no limit to how many values a field can have, but each value
- must be unique to that field. The sortkey is important to display these
- values in the desired order.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="edit-values-delete">
- <title>Deleting legal values</title>
- <para>
- Legal values from Custom Fields can be deleted, but only if the
- following two conditions are respected:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>The value is not used by default for the field.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>No bug is currently using this value.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- If any of these conditions is not respected, the value cannot be deleted.
- The only way to delete these values is to reassign bugs to another value
- and to set another value as default for the field.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bug_status_workflow">
- <title>Bug Status Workflow</title>
-
- <para>
- The bug status workflow is no longer hardcoded but can be freely customized
- from the web interface. Only one bug status cannot be renamed nor deleted,
- UNCONFIRMED, but the workflow involving it is free. The configuration
- page displays all existing bug statuses twice, first on the left for bug
- statuses we come from and on the top for bug statuses we move to.
- If the checkbox is checked, then the transition between the two bug statuses
- is legal, else it's forbidden independently of your privileges. The bug status
- used for the "duplicate_or_move_bug_status" parameter must be part of the
- workflow as that is the bug status which will be used when duplicating or
- moving a bug, so it must be available from each bug status.
- </para>
- <para>
- When the workflow is set, the "View Current Triggers" link below the table
- lets you set which transitions require a comment from the user.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="voting">
- <title>Voting</title>
-
- <para>Voting allows users to be given a pot of votes which they can allocate
- to bugs, to indicate that they'd like them fixed.
- This allows developers to gauge
- user need for a particular enhancement or bugfix. By allowing bugs with
- a certain number of votes to automatically move from "UNCONFIRMED" to
- "NEW", users of the bug system can help high-priority bugs garner
- attention so they don't sit for a long time awaiting triage.</para>
-
- <para>To modify Voting settings:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Navigate to the "Edit product" screen for the Product you
- wish to modify</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Maximum Votes per person</emphasis>:
- Setting this field to "0" disables voting.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Maximum Votes a person can put on a single
- bug</emphasis>:
- It should probably be some number lower than the
- "Maximum votes per person". Don't set this field to "0" if
- "Maximum votes per person" is non-zero; that doesn't make
- any sense.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis>Number of votes a bug in this product needs to
- automatically get out of the UNCONFIRMED state</emphasis>:
- Setting this field to "0" disables the automatic move of
- bugs from UNCONFIRMED to NEW.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Once you have adjusted the values to your preference, click
- "Update".</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="quips">
- <title>Quips</title>
-
- <para>
- Quips are small text messages that can be configured to appear
- next to search results. A Bugzilla installation can have its own specific
- quips. Whenever a quip needs to be displayed, a random selection
- is made from the pool of already existing quips.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Quips are controlled by the <emphasis>enablequips</emphasis> parameter.
- It has several possible values: on, approved, frozen or off.
- In order to enable quips approval you need to set this parameter
- to "approved". In this way, users are free to submit quips for
- addition but an administrator must explicitly approve them before
- they are actually used.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In order to see the user interface for the quips, it is enough to click
- on a quip when it is displayed together with the search results. Or
- it can be seen directly in the browser by visiting the quips.cgi URL
- (prefixed with the usual web location of the Bugzilla installation).
- Once the quip interface is displayed, it is enough to click the
- "view and edit the whole quip list" in order to see the administration
- page. A page with all the quips available in the database will
- be displayed.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Next to each tip there is a checkbox, under the
- "Approved" column. Quips who have this checkbox checked are
- already approved and will appear next to the search results.
- The ones that have it unchecked are still preserved in the
- database but they will not appear on search results pages.
- User submitted quips have initially the checkbox unchecked.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also, there is a delete link next to each quip,
- which can be used in order to permanently delete a quip.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="groups">
- <title>Groups and Group Security</title>
-
- <para>
- Groups allow for separating bugs into logical divisions.
- Groups are typically used to
- to isolate bugs that should only be seen by certain people. For
- example, a company might create a different group for each one of its customers
- or partners. Group permissions could be set so that each partner or customer would
- only have access to their own bugs. Or, groups might be used to create
- variable access controls for different departments within an organization.
- Another common use of groups is to associate groups with products,
- creating isolation and access control on a per-product basis.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Groups and group behaviors are controlled in several places:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The group configuration page. To view or edit existing groups, or to
- create new groups, access the "Groups" link from the "Administration"
- page. This section of the manual deals primarily with the aspect of
- group controls accessed on this page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Global configuration parameters. Bugzilla has several parameters
- that control the overall default group behavior and restriction
- levels. For more information on the parameters that control
- group behavior globally, see <xref linkend="param-group-security"/>.
- </para>
-
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Product association with groups. Most of the functionality of groups
- and group security is controlled at the product level. Some aspects
- of group access controls for products are discussed in this section,
- but for more detail see <xref linkend="product-group-controls"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Group access for users. See <xref linkend="users-and-groups"/> for
- details on how users are assigned group access.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- Group permissions are such that if a bug belongs to a group, only members
- of that group can see the bug. If a bug is in more than one group, only
- members of <emphasis>all</emphasis> the groups that the bug is in can see
- the bug. For information on granting read-only access to certain people and
- full edit access to others, see <xref linkend="product-group-controls"/>.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- By default, bugs can also be seen by the Assignee, the Reporter, and
- by everyone on the CC List, regardless of whether or not the bug would
- typically be viewable by them. Visibility to the Reporter and CC List can
- be overridden (on a per-bug basis) by bringing up the bug, finding the
- section that starts with <quote>Users in the roles selected below...</quote>
- and un-checking the box next to either 'Reporter' or 'CC List' (or both).
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <section id="create-groups">
- <title>Creating Groups</title>
-
- <para>
- To create a new group, follow the steps below:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select the <quote>Administration</quote> link in the page footer,
- and then select the <quote>Groups</quote> link from the
- Administration page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- A table of all the existing groups is displayed. Below the table is a
- description of all the fields. To create a new group, select the
- <quote>Add Group</quote> link under the table of existing groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- There are five fields to fill out. These fields are documented below
- the form. Choose a name and description for the group. Decide whether
- this group should be used for bugs (in all likelihood this should be
- selected). Optionally, choose a regular expression that will
- automatically add any matching users to the group, and choose an
- icon that will help identify user comments for the group. The regular
- expression can be useful, for example, to automatically put all users
- from the same company into one group (if the group is for a specific
- customer or partner).
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- If <quote>User RegExp</quote> is filled out, users whose email
- addresses match the regular expression will automatically be
- members of the group as long as their email addresses continue
- to match the regular expression. If their email address changes
- and no longer matches the regular expression, they will be removed
- from the group. Versions 2.16 and older of Bugzilla did not automatically
- remove users who's email addresses no longer matched the RegExp.
- </para>
- </note>
- <warning>
- <para>
- If specifying a domain in the regular expression, end
- the regexp with a "$". Otherwise, when granting access to
- "@mycompany\.com", access will also be granted to
- 'badperson@mycompany.com.cracker.net'. Use the syntax,
- '@mycompany\.com$' for the regular expression.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- After the new group is created, it can be edited for additional options.
- The "Edit Group" page allows for specifying other groups that should be included
- in this group and which groups should be permitted to add and delete
- users from this group. For more details, see <xref linkend="edit-groups"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="edit-groups">
- <title>Editing Groups and Assigning Group Permissions</title>
-
- <para>
- To access the "Edit Groups" page, select the
- <quote>Administration</quote> link in the page footer,
- and then select the <quote>Groups</quote> link from the Administration page.
- A table of all the existing groups is displayed. Click on a group name
- you wish to edit or control permissions for.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The "Edit Groups" page contains the same five fields present when
- creating a new group. Below that are two additional sections, "Group
- Permissions," and "Mass Remove". The "Mass Remove" option simply removes
- all users from the group who match the regular expression entered. The
- "Group Permissions" section requires further explanation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The "Group Permissions" section on the "Edit Groups" page contains four sets
- of permissions that control the relationship of this group to other
- groups. If the 'usevisibilitygroups' parameter is in use (see
- <xref linkend="parameters"/>) two additional sets of permissions are displayed.
- Each set consists of two select boxes. On the left, a select box
- with a list of all existing groups. On the right, a select box listing
- all groups currently selected for this permission setting (this box will
- be empty for new groups). The way these controls allow groups to relate
- to one another is called <emphasis>inheritance</emphasis>.
- Each of the six permissions is described below.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That Are a Member of This Group</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Members of any groups selected here will automatically have
- membership in this group. In other words, members of any selected
- group will inherit membership in this group.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That This Group Is a Member Of</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Members of this group will inherit membership to any group
- selected here. For example, suppose the group being edited is
- an Admin group. If there are two products (Product1 and Product2)
- and each product has its
- own group (Group1 and Group2), and the Admin group
- should have access to both products,
- simply select both Group1 and Group2 here.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That Can Grant Membership in This Group</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The members of any group selected here will be able add users
- to this group, even if they themselves are not in this group.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That This Group Can Grant Membership In</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Members of this group can add users to any group selected here,
- even if they themselves are not in the selected groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That Can See This Group</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Members of any selected group can see the users in this group.
- This setting is only visible if the 'usevisibilitygroups' parameter
- is enabled on the Bugzilla Configuration page. See
- <xref linkend="parameters"/> for information on configuring Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
-
- <term>
- <emphasis>Groups That This Group Can See</emphasis>
- </term>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Members of this group can see members in any of the selected groups.
- This setting is only visible if the 'usevisibilitygroups' parameter
- is enabled on the the Bugzilla Configuration page. See
- <xref linkend="parameters"/> for information on configuring Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="users-and-groups">
- <title>Assigning Users to Groups</title>
-
- <para>
- A User can become a member of a group in several ways:
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The user can be explicitly placed in the group by editing
- the user's profile. This can be done by accessing the "Users" page
- from the "Administration" page. Use the search form to find the user
- you want to edit group membership for, and click on their email
- address in the search results to edit their profile. The profile
- page lists all the groups, and indicates if the user is a member of
- the group either directly or indirectly. More information on indirect
- group membership is below. For more details on User administration,
- see <xref linkend="useradmin"/>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The group can include another group of which the user is
- a member. This is indicated by square brackets around the checkbox
- next to the group name in the user's profile.
- See <xref linkend="edit-groups"/> for details on group inheritance.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The user's email address can match the regular expression
- that has been specified to automatically grant membership to
- the group. This is indicated by "*" around the check box by the
- group name in the user's profile.
- See <xref linkend="create-groups"/> for details on
- the regular expression option when creating groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Assigning Group Controls to Products</title>
-
- <para>
- The primary functionality of groups is derived from the relationship of
- groups to products. The concepts around segregating access to bugs with
- product group controls can be confusing. For details and examples on this
- topic, see <xref linkend="product-group-controls" />.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="sanitycheck">
- <title>Checking and Maintaining Database Integrity</title>
-
- <para>
- Over time it is possible for the Bugzilla database to become corrupt
- or to have anomalies.
- This could happen through normal usage of Bugzilla, manual database
- administration outside of the Bugzilla user interface, or from some
- other unexpected event. Bugzilla includes a "Sanity Check" script that
- can perform several basic database checks, and repair certain problems or
- inconsistencies.
- </para>
- <para>
- To run the "Sanity Check" script, log in as an Administrator and click the
- "Sanity Check" link in the admin page. Any problems that are found will be
- displayed in red letters. If the script is capable of fixing a problem,
- it will present a link to initiate the fix. If the script can not
- fix the problem it will require manual database administration or recovery.
- </para>
- <para>
- The "Sanity Check" script can also be run from the command line via the perl
- script <filename>sanitycheck.pl</filename>. The script can also be run as
- a <command>cron</command> job. Results will be delivered by email.
- </para>
- <para>
- The "Sanity Check" script should be run on a regular basis as a matter of
- best practice.
- </para>
- <warning>
- <para>
- The "Sanity Check" script is no substitute for a competent database
- administrator. It is only designed to check and repair basic database
- problems.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrading">
- <title>Upgrading to New Releases</title>
-
- <para>
- Upgrading Bugzilla is something we all want to do from time to time,
- be it to get new features or pick up the latest security fix. How easy
- it is to update depends on a few factors:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If the new version is a revision or a new point release
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- How many local changes (if any) have been made
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <section id="upgrading-version-defns">
- <title>Version Definitions</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla displays the version you are using at the top of the home
- page <filename>index.cgi</filename>. It looks something like
- '2.20.3', '2.22.1' or '3.0rc1'. The first number in this series is
- the Major Version. This does not change very often;
- Bugzilla was 1.x.x when it was first created, and went to 2.x.x
- when it was re-written in perl in Sept 1998. The major version
- 3.x.x, released in early 2007, is pretty far from what the 2.x.x
- series looked like, both about its UI and its code.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The second number in the version is called the 'minor number', and
- a release that changes the minor number is called a 'point release'.
- An even number in this position (2.18, 2.20, 2.22, 3.0, 3.2, etc.)
- represents a stable version, while an odd number (2.19, 2.21, 2.23, etc.)
- represents a development version. In the past, stable point releases
- were feature-based, coming when certain enhancements had been
- completed, or the Bugzilla development team felt that enough
- progress had been made overall. As of version 2.18, however,
- Bugzilla has moved to a time-based release schedule; current plans
- are to create a stable point release every 6 months or so after
- 2.18 is deployed.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The third number in the Bugzilla version represents a bugfix version.
- Bugfix Revisions are released only to address security vulnerabilities
- and, for a limited period, bug fixes. Once enough of these
- bugfixes have accumulated (or a new security vulnerability is
- identified and closed), a bugfix release is made. As an
- example, 2.20.3 was a bugfix release, and improved on 2.20.2.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- When reading version numbers, everything separated by a point ('.')
- should be read as a single number. It is <emphasis>not</emphasis>
- the same as decimal. 2.22 is newer than 2.8 because minor version
- 22 is greater than minor version 8. The now unsupported release 2.16.11
- was newer than 2.16.9 (because bugfix 11 is greater than bugfix 9. This is
- confusing to some people who aren't used to dealing with software.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrading-notifications">
- <title>Upgrading - Notifications</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla 3.0 introduces the ability to automatically notify
- administrators when new releases are available, based on the
- <literal>upgrade_notification</literal> parameter, see
- <xref linkend="parameters"/>. Administrators will see these
- notifications when they access the <filename>index.cgi</filename>
- page, i.e. generally when logging in. Bugzilla will check once per
- day for new releases, unless the parameter is set to
- <quote>disabled</quote>. If you are behind a proxy, you may have to set
- the <literal>proxy_url</literal> parameter accordingly. If the proxy
- requires authentication, use the
- <literal>http://user:pass@proxy_url/</literal> syntax.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrading-methods">
- <title>Upgrading - Methods and Procedure</title>
- <para>
- There are three different ways to upgrade your installation.
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Using CVS (<xref linkend="upgrade-cvs"/>)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Downloading a new tarball (<xref linkend="upgrade-tarball"/>)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Applying the relevant patches (<xref linkend="upgrade-patches"/>)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- Each of these options has its own pros and cons; the one that's
- right for you depends on how long it has been since you last
- installed, the degree to which you have customized your installation,
- and/or your network configuration. (Some discussion of the various
- methods of updating compared with degree and methods of local
- customization can be found in <xref linkend="template-method"/>.)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The larger the jump you are trying to make, the more difficult it
- is going to be to upgrade if you have made local customizations.
- Upgrading from 2.22 to 2.22.1 should be fairly painless even if
- you are heavily customized, but going from 2.18 to 3.0 is going
- to mean a fair bit of work re-writing your local changes to use
- the new files, logic, templates, etc. If you have done no local
- changes at all, however, then upgrading should be approximately
- the same amount of work regardless of how long it has been since
- your version was released.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Upgrading is a one-way process. You should backup your database
- and current Bugzilla directory before attempting the upgrade. If
- you wish to revert to the old Bugzilla version for any reason, you
- will have to restore from these backups.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- The examples in the following sections are written as though the
- user were updating to version 2.22.1, but the procedures are the
- same regardless of whether one is updating to a new point release
- or simply trying to obtain a new bugfix release. Also, in the
- examples the user's Bugzilla installation is found at
- <filename>/var/www/html/bugzilla</filename>. If that is not the
- same as the location of your Bugzilla installation, simply
- substitute the proper paths where appropriate.
- </para>
-
- <section id="upgrade-cvs">
- <title>Upgrading using CVS</title>
-
- <para>
- Every release of Bugzilla, whether it is a point release or a bugfix,
- is tagged in CVS. Also, every tarball that has been distributed since
- version 2.12 has been created in such a way that it can be used with
- CVS once it is unpacked. Doing so, however, requires that you are able
- to access cvs-mirror.mozilla.org on port 2401, which may not be an
- option or a possibility for some users, especially those behind a
- highly restrictive firewall.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>
- If you can, updating using CVS is probably the most painless
- method, especially if you have a lot of local changes.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- <para>
- The following shows the sequence of commands needed to update a
- Bugzilla installation via CVS, and a typical series of results.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html/bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>cvs login</command>
-Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:2401/cvsroot
-CVS password: <emphasis>('anonymous', or just leave it blank)</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>cvs -q update -r BUGZILLA-2_22_1 -dP</command>
-P checksetup.pl
-P collectstats.pl
-P docs/rel_notes.txt
-P template/en/default/list/quips.html.tmpl
-<emphasis>(etc.)</emphasis>
- </programlisting>
-
- <caution>
- <para>
- If a line in the output from <command>cvs update</command> begins
- with a <computeroutput>C</computeroutput>, then that represents a
- file with local changes that CVS was unable to properly merge. You
- need to resolve these conflicts manually before Bugzilla (or at
- least the portion using that file) will be usable.
- </para>
- </caution>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrade-tarball">
- <title>Upgrading using the tarball</title>
-
- <para>
- If you are unable (or unwilling) to use CVS, another option that's
- always available is to obtain the latest tarball from the <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/download/">Download Page</ulink> and
- create a new Bugzilla installation from that.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This sequence of commands shows how to get the tarball from the
- command-line; it is also possible to download it from the site
- directly in a web browser. If you go that route, save the file
- to the <filename class="directory">/var/www/html</filename>
- directory (or its equivalent, if you use something else) and
- omit the first three lines of the example.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html</command>
-bash$ <command>wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-2.22.1.tar.gz</command>
-<emphasis>(Output omitted)</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>tar xzvf bugzilla-2.22.1.tar.gz</command>
-bugzilla-2.22.1/
-bugzilla-2.22.1/.cvsignore
-<emphasis>(Output truncated)</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>cd bugzilla-2.22.1</command>
-bash$ <command>cp ../bugzilla/localconfig* .</command>
-bash$ <command>cp -r ../bugzilla/data .</command>
-bash$ <command>cd ..</command>
-bash$ <command>mv bugzilla bugzilla.old</command>
-bash$ <command>mv bugzilla-2.22.1 bugzilla</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- The <command>cp</command> commands both end with periods which
- is a very important detail, it tells the shell that the destination
- directory is the current working directory.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- This upgrade method will give you a clean install of Bugzilla with the
- same version as the tarball. That's fine if you don't have any local
- customizations that you want to maintain, but if you do then you will
- need to reapply them by hand to the appropriate files.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- It's worth noting that since 2.12, the Bugzilla tarballs come
- CVS-ready, so if you decide at a later date that you'd rather use
- CVS as an upgrade method, your code will already be set up for it.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrade-patches">
- <title>Upgrading using patches</title>
-
- <para>
- If you are doing a bugfix upgrade -- that is, one where only the
- last number of the revision changes, such as from 2.22 to 2.22.1
- -- then you have the option of obtaining and applying a patch file
- from the <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/download/">Download Page</ulink>.
- This file is made available by the <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/developers/profiles.html">Bugzilla
- Development Team</ulink>, and is a collection of all the bug fixes
- and security patches that have been made since the last bugfix
- release. If you are planning to upgrade via patches, it is safer
- to grab this developer-made patch file than to read the patch
- notes and apply all (or even just some of) the patches oneself,
- as sometimes patches on bugs get changed before they get checked in.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As above, this example starts with obtaining the file via the
- command line. If you have already downloaded it, you can omit the
- first two commands.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd /var/www/html/bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-2.22-to-2.22.1.diff.gz</command>
-<emphasis>(Output omitted)</emphasis>
-bash$ <command>gunzip bugzilla-2.22-to-2.22.1.diff.gz</command>
-bash$ <command>patch -p1 &lt; bugzilla-2.22-to-2.22.1.diff</command>
-patching file checksetup.pl
-patching file collectstats.pl
-<emphasis>(etc.)</emphasis>
- </programlisting>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Be aware that upgrading from a patch file does not change the
- entries in your <filename class="directory">CVS</filename> directory.
- This could make it more difficult to upgrade using CVS
- (<xref linkend="upgrade-cvs"/>) in the future.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="upgrading-completion">
- <title>Completing Your Upgrade</title>
-
- <para>
- Regardless of which upgrade method you choose, you will need to
- run <command>./checksetup.pl</command> before your Bugzilla
- upgrade will be complete.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-bash$ <command>cd bugzilla</command>
-bash$ <command>./checksetup.pl</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- The period at the beginning of the command
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> is important and can not
- be omitted.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- If you have done a lot of local modifications, it wouldn't hurt
- to run the Bugzilla Testing suite. This is not a required step,
- but it isn't going to hurt anything, and might help point out
- some areas that could be improved. (More information on the
- test suite can be had by following this link to the appropriate
- section in the <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html#testsuite">Developers'
- Guide</ulink>.)
- </para>
-
- </section>
- </section>
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-<chapter id="customization">
- <title>Customizing Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="cust-skins">
- <title>Custom Skins</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla allows you to have multiple skins. These are custom CSS and possibly
- also custom images for Bugzilla. To create a new custom skin, you have two
- choices:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make a single CSS file, and put it in the
- <filename>skins/contrib</filename> directory.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make a directory that contains all the same CSS file
- names as <filename>skins/standard/</filename>, and put
- your directory in <filename>skins/contrib/</filename>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- After you put the file or the directory there, make sure to run checksetup.pl
- so that it can reset the file permissions correctly.
- </para>
- <para>
- After you have installed the new skin, it will show up as an option in the
- user's General Preferences. If you would like to force a particular skin on all
- users, just select it in the Default Preferences and then uncheck "Enabled" on
- the preference.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cust-templates">
- <title>Template Customization</title>
-
- <para>
- Administrators can configure the look and feel of Bugzilla without
- having to edit Perl files or face the nightmare of massive merge
- conflicts when they upgrade to a newer version in the future.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Templatization also makes localized versions of Bugzilla possible,
- for the first time. It's possible to have Bugzilla's UI language
- determined by the user's browser. More information is available in
- <xref linkend="template-http-accept"/>.
- </para>
-
- <section id="template-directory">
- <title>Template Directory Structure</title>
- <para>
- The template directory structure starts with top level directory
- named <filename>template</filename>, which contains a directory
- for each installed localization. The next level defines the
- language used in the templates. Bugzilla comes with English
- templates, so the directory name is <filename>en</filename>,
- and we will discuss <filename>template/en</filename> throughout
- the documentation. Below <filename>template/en</filename> is the
- <filename>default</filename> directory, which contains all the
- standard templates shipped with Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- A directory <filename>data/templates</filename> also exists;
- this is where Template Toolkit puts the compiled versions of
- the templates from either the default or custom directories.
- <emphasis>Do not</emphasis> directly edit the files in this
- directory, or all your changes will be lost the next time
- Template Toolkit recompiles the templates.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </section>
-
- <section id="template-method">
- <title>Choosing a Customization Method</title>
- <para>
- If you want to edit Bugzilla's templates, the first decision
- you must make is how you want to go about doing so. There are two
- choices, and which you use depends mainly on the scope of your
- modifications, and the method you plan to use to upgrade Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The first method of making customizations is to directly edit the
- templates found in <filename>template/en/default</filename>.
- This is probably the best way to go about it if you are going to
- be upgrading Bugzilla through CVS, because if you then execute
- a <command>cvs update</command>, any changes you have made will
- be merged automagically with the updated versions.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If you use this method, and CVS conflicts occur during an
- update, the conflicted templates (and possibly other parts
- of your installation) will not work until they are resolved.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- The second method is to copy the templates to be modified
- into a mirrored directory structure under
- <filename>template/en/custom</filename>. Templates in this
- directory structure automatically override any identically-named
- and identically-located templates in the
- <filename>default</filename> directory.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- The <filename>custom</filename> directory does not exist
- at first and must be created if you want to use it.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- The second method of customization should be used if you
- use the overwriting method of upgrade, because otherwise
- your changes will be lost. This method may also be better if
- you are using the CVS method of upgrading and are going to make major
- changes, because it is guaranteed that the contents of this directory
- will not be touched during an upgrade, and you can then decide whether
- to continue using your own templates, or make the effort to merge your
- changes into the new versions by hand.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Using this method, your installation may break if incompatible
- changes are made to the template interface. Such changes should
- be documented in the release notes, provided you are using a
- stable release of Bugzilla. If you use using unstable code, you will
- need to deal with this one yourself, although if possible the changes
- will be mentioned before they occur in the deprecations section of the
- previous stable release's release notes.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Regardless of which method you choose, it is recommended that
- you run <command>./checksetup.pl</command> after creating or
- editing any templates in the <filename>template/en/default</filename>
- directory, and after editing any templates in the
- <filename>custom</filename> directory.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- It is <emphasis>required</emphasis> that you run
- <command>./checksetup.pl</command> after creating a new
- template in the <filename>custom</filename> directory. Failure
- to do so will raise an incomprehensible error message.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </section>
-
- <section id="template-edit">
- <title>How To Edit Templates</title>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If you are making template changes that you intend on submitting back
- for inclusion in standard Bugzilla, you should read the relevant
- sections of the
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html">Developers'
- Guide</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- The syntax of the Template Toolkit language is beyond the scope of
- this guide. It's reasonably easy to pick up by looking at the current
- templates; or, you can read the manual, available on the
- <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org">Template Toolkit home
- page</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- One thing you should take particular care about is the need
- to properly HTML filter data that has been passed into the template.
- This means that if the data can possibly contain special HTML characters
- such as &lt;, and the data was not intended to be HTML, they need to be
- converted to entity form, i.e. &amp;lt;. You use the 'html' filter in the
- Template Toolkit to do this. If you forget, you may open up
- your installation to cross-site scripting attacks.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also note that Bugzilla adds a few filters of its own, that are not
- in standard Template Toolkit. In particular, the 'url_quote' filter
- can convert characters that are illegal or have special meaning in URLs,
- such as &amp;, to the encoded form, i.e. %26. This actually encodes most
- characters (but not the common ones such as letters and numbers and so
- on), including the HTML-special characters, so there's never a need to
- HTML filter afterwards.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Editing templates is a good way of doing a <quote>poor man's custom
- fields</quote>.
- For example, if you don't use the Status Whiteboard, but want to have
- a free-form text entry box for <quote>Build Identifier</quote>,
- then you can just
- edit the templates to change the field labels. It's still be called
- status_whiteboard internally, but your users don't need to know that.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="template-formats">
- <title>Template Formats and Types</title>
-
- <para>
- Some CGI's have the ability to use more than one template. For example,
- <filename>buglist.cgi</filename> can output itself as RDF, or as two
- formats of HTML (complex and simple). The mechanism that provides this
- feature is extensible.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla can support different types of output, which again can have
- multiple formats. In order to request a certain type, you can append
- the &amp;ctype=&lt;contenttype&gt; (such as rdf or html) to the
- <filename>&lt;cginame&gt;.cgi</filename> URL. If you would like to
- retrieve a certain format, you can use the &amp;format=&lt;format&gt;
- (such as simple or complex) in the URL.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To see if a CGI supports multiple output formats and types, grep the
- CGI for <quote>get_format</quote>. If it's not present, adding
- multiple format/type support isn't too hard - see how it's done in
- other CGIs, e.g. config.cgi.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To make a new format template for a CGI which supports this,
- open a current template for
- that CGI and take note of the INTERFACE comment (if present.) This
- comment defines what variables are passed into this template. If
- there isn't one, I'm afraid you'll have to read the template and
- the code to find out what information you get.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Write your template in whatever markup or text style is appropriate.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You now need to decide what content type you want your template
- served as. The content types are defined in the
- <filename>Bugzilla/Constants.pm</filename> file in the
- <filename>contenttypes</filename>
- constant. If your content type is not there, add it. Remember
- the three- or four-letter tag assigned to your content type.
- This tag will be part of the template filename.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- After adding or changing a content type, it's suitable to edit
- <filename>Bugzilla/Constants.pm</filename> in order to reflect
- the changes. Also, the file should be kept up to date after an
- upgrade if content types have been customized in the past.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Save the template as <filename>&lt;stubname&gt;-&lt;formatname&gt;.&lt;contenttypetag&gt;.tmpl</filename>.
- Try out the template by calling the CGI as
- <filename>&lt;cginame&gt;.cgi?format=&lt;formatname&gt;&amp;ctype=&lt;type&gt;</filename> .
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="template-specific">
- <title>Particular Templates</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a few templates you may be particularly interested in
- customizing for your installation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>index.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is the Bugzilla front page.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/header.html.tmpl</command>:
- This defines the header that goes on all Bugzilla pages.
- The header includes the banner, which is what appears to users
- and is probably what you want to edit instead. However the
- header also includes the HTML HEAD section, so you could for
- example add a stylesheet or META tag by editing the header.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/banner.html.tmpl</command>:
- This contains the <quote>banner</quote>, the part of the header
- that appears
- at the top of all Bugzilla pages. The default banner is reasonably
- barren, so you'll probably want to customize this to give your
- installation a distinctive look and feel. It is recommended you
- preserve the Bugzilla version number in some form so the version
- you are running can be determined, and users know what docs to read.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/footer.html.tmpl</command>:
- This defines the footer that goes on all Bugzilla pages. Editing
- this is another way to quickly get a distinctive look and feel for
- your Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>global/variables.none.tmpl</command>:
- This defines a list of terms that may be changed in order to
- <quote>brand</quote> the Bugzilla instance In this way, terms
- like <quote>bugs</quote> can be replaced with <quote>issues</quote>
- across the whole Bugzilla installation. The name
- <quote>Bugzilla</quote> and other words can be customized as well.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>list/table.html.tmpl</command>:
- This template controls the appearance of the bug lists created
- by Bugzilla. Editing this template allows per-column control of
- the width and title of a column, the maximum display length of
- each entry, and the wrap behaviour of long entries.
- For long bug lists, Bugzilla inserts a 'break' every 100 bugs by
- default; this behaviour is also controlled by this template, and
- that value can be modified here.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/create/user-message.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is a message that appears near the top of the bug reporting page.
- By modifying this, you can tell your users how they should report
- bugs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/process/midair.html.tmpl</command>:
- This is the page used if two people submit simultaneous changes to the
- same bug. The second person to submit their changes will get this page
- to tell them what the first person did, and ask if they wish to
- overwrite those changes or go back and revisit the bug. The default
- title and header on this page read "Mid-air collision detected!" If
- you work in the aviation industry, or other environment where this
- might be found offensive (yes, we have true stories of this happening)
- you'll want to change this to something more appropriate for your
- environment.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <command>bug/create/create.html.tmpl</command> and
- <command>bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</command>:
- You may not wish to go to the effort of creating custom fields in
- Bugzilla, yet you want to make sure that each bug report contains
- a number of pieces of important information for which there is not
- a special field. The bug entry system has been designed in an
- extensible fashion to enable you to add arbitrary HTML widgets,
- such as drop-down lists or textboxes, to the bug entry page
- and have their values appear formatted in the initial comment.
- A hidden field that indicates the format should be added inside
- the form in order to make the template functional. Its value should
- be the suffix of the template filename. For example, if the file
- is called <filename>create-cust.html.tmpl</filename>, then
- <programlisting>&lt;input type="hidden" name="format" value="cust"&gt;</programlisting>
- should be used inside the form.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- An example of this is the mozilla.org
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/enter_bug.cgi?product=WorldControl&amp;format=guided">guided
- bug submission form</ulink>. The code for this comes with the Bugzilla
- distribution as an example for you to copy. It can be found in the
- files
- <filename>create-guided.html.tmpl</filename> and
- <filename>comment-guided.html.tmpl</filename>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- So to use this feature, create a custom template for
- <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename>. The default template, on which you
- could base it, is
- <filename>custom/bug/create/create.html.tmpl</filename>.
- Call it <filename>create-&lt;formatname&gt;.html.tmpl</filename>, and
- in it, add widgets for each piece of information you'd like
- collected - such as a build number, or set of steps to reproduce.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Then, create a template like
- <filename>custom/bug/create/comment.txt.tmpl</filename>, and call it
- <filename>comment-&lt;formatname&gt;.txt.tmpl</filename>. This
- template should reference the form fields you have created using
- the syntax <filename>[% form.&lt;fieldname&gt; %]</filename>. When a
- bug report is
- submitted, the initial comment attached to the bug report will be
- formatted according to the layout of this template.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For example, if your custom enter_bug template had a field
- <programlisting>&lt;input type="text" name="buildid" size="30"&gt;</programlisting>
- and then your comment.txt.tmpl had
- <programlisting>BuildID: [% form.buildid %]</programlisting>
- then something like
- <programlisting>BuildID: 20020303</programlisting>
- would appear in the initial comment.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="template-http-accept">
- <title>Configuring Bugzilla to Detect the User's Language</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla honours the user's Accept: HTTP header. You can install
- templates in other languages, and Bugzilla will pick the most appropriate
- according to a priority order defined by you. Many
- language templates can be obtained from <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html#localizations"/>. Instructions
- for submitting new languages are also available from that location.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cust-hooks">
- <title>The Bugzilla Extension Mechanism</title>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Custom extensions require Template Toolkit version 2.12 or
- above, or the application of a patch. See <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239112">bug
- 239112</ulink> for details.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- Extensions are a way for extensions to Bugzilla to insert code
- into the standard Bugzilla templates and source files
- without modifying these files themselves. The extension mechanism
- defines a consistent API for extending the standard templates and source files
- in a way that cleanly separates standard code from extension code.
- Hooks reduce merge conflicts and make it easier to write extensions that work
- across multiple versions of Bugzilla, making upgrading a Bugzilla installation
- with installed extensions easier. Furthermore, they make it easy to install
- and remove extensions as each extension is nothing more than a
- simple directory structure.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- There are two main types of hooks: code hooks and template hooks. Code
- hooks allow extensions to invoke code at specific points in various
- source files, while template hooks allow extensions to add elements to
- the Bugzilla user interface.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- A hook is just a named place in a standard source or template file
- where extension source code or template files for that hook get processed.
- Each extension has a corresponding directory in the Bugzilla directory
- tree (<filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/extensions/extension_name</filename>). Hooking
- an extension source file or template to a hook is as simple as putting
- the extension file into extension's template or code directory.
- When Bugzilla processes the source file or template and reaches the hook,
- it will process all extension files in the hook's directory.
- The hooks themselves can be added into any source file or standard template
- upon request by extension authors.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To use hooks to extend Bugzilla, first make sure there is
- a hook at the appropriate place within the source file or template you
- want to extend. The exact appearance of a hook depends on if the hook
- is a code hook or a template hook.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Code hooks appear in Bugzilla source files as a single method call
- in the format <literal role="code">Bugzilla::Hook->process("<varname>name</varname>");</literal>.
- For instance, <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename> may invoke the hook
- "<varname>enter_bug-entrydefaultvars</varname>". Thus, a source file at
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/extensions/EXTENSION_NAME/code/enter_bug-entrydefaultvars.pl</filename>
- will be automatically invoked when the code hook is reached.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Template hooks appear in the standard Bugzilla templates as a
- single directive in the format
- <literal role="code">[% Hook.process("<varname>name</varname>") %]</literal>,
- where <varname>name</varname> is the unique name of the hook.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you aren't sure what you want to extend or just want to browse the
- available hooks, either use your favorite multi-file search
- tool (e.g. <command>grep</command>) to search the standard templates
- for occurrences of <methodname>Hook.process</methodname> or the source
- files for occurrences of <methodname>Bugzilla::Hook::process</methodname>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If there is no hook at the appropriate place within the Bugzilla
- source file or template you want to extend,
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&amp;component=User%20Interface">file
- a bug requesting one</ulink>, specifying:
- </para>
-
- <simplelist>
- <member>the source or template file for which you are
- requesting a hook;</member>
- <member>
- where in the file you would like the hook to be placed
- (line number/position for latest version of the file in CVS
- or description of location);
- </member>
- <member>the purpose of the hook;</member>
- <member>a link to information about your extension, if any.</member>
- </simplelist>
-
- <para>
- The Bugzilla reviewers will promptly review each hook request,
- name the hook, add it to the template or source file, and check
- the new version of the template into CVS.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You may optionally attach a patch to the bug which implements the hook
- and check it in yourself after receiving approval from a Bugzilla
- reviewer. The developers may suggest changes to the location of the
- hook based on their analysis of your needs or so the hook can satisfy
- the needs of multiple extensions, but the process of getting hooks
- approved and checked in is not as stringent as the process for general
- changes to Bugzilla, and any extension, whether released or still in
- development, can have hooks added to meet their needs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- After making sure the hook you need exists (or getting it added if not),
- add your extension to the directory within the Bugzilla
- extensions tree corresponding to the hook.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- That's it! Now, when the source file or template containing the hook
- is processed, your extension file will be processed at the point
- where the hook appears.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For example, let's say you have an extension named Projman that adds
- project management capabilities to Bugzilla. Projman has an
- administration interface <filename>edit-projects.cgi</filename>,
- and you want to add a link to it into the navigation bar at the bottom
- of every Bugzilla page for those users who are authorized
- to administer projects.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The navigation bar is generated by the template file
- <filename>useful-links.html.tmpl</filename>, which is located in
- the <filename>global/</filename> subdirectory on the standard Bugzilla
- template path
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/template/en/default/</filename>.
- Looking in <filename>useful-links.html.tmpl</filename>, you find
- the following hook at the end of the list of standard Bugzilla
- administration links:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting><![CDATA[...
- [% ', <a href="editkeywords.cgi">keywords</a>'
- IF user.groups.editkeywords %]
- [% Hook.process("edit") %]
-...]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>
- The corresponding extension file for this hook is
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/extensions/projman/template/en/hook/global/useful-links-edit.html.tmpl</filename>.
- You then create that template file and add the following constant:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting><![CDATA[...[% ', <a href="edit-projects.cgi">projects</a>' IF user.groups.projman_admins %]]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Voila! The link now appears after the other administration links in the
- navigation bar for users in the <literal>projman_admins</literal> group.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Now, let us say your extension adds a custom "project_manager" field
- to enter_bug.cgi. You want to modify the CGI script to set the default
- project manager to be productname@company.com. Looking at
- <filename>enter_bug.cgi</filename>, you see the enter_bug-entrydefaultvars
- hook near the bottom of the file before the default form values are set.
- The corresponding extension source file for this hook is located at
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/extensions/projman/code/enter_bug-entrydefaultvars.pl</filename>.
- You then create that file and add the following:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>$default{'project_manager'} = $product.'@company.com';</programlisting>
-
- <para>
- This code will be invoked whenever enter_bug.cgi is executed.
- Assuming that the rest of the customization was completed (e.g. the
- custom field was added to the enter_bug template and the required hooks
- were used in process_bug.cgi), the new field will now have this
- default value.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Notes:
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If your extension includes entirely new templates in addition to
- extensions of standard templates, it should store those new
- templates in its
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/extensions/template/en/</filename>
- directory. Extension template directories, like the
- <filename>default/</filename> and <filename>custom/</filename>
- directories, are part of the template search path, so putting templates
- there enables them to be found by the template processor.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The template processor looks for templates first in the
- <filename>custom/</filename> directory (i.e. templates added by the
- specific installation), then in the <filename>extensions/</filename>
- directory (i.e. templates added by extensions), and finally in the
- <filename>default/</filename> directory (i.e. the standard Bugzilla
- templates). Thus, installation-specific templates override both
- default and extension templates.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you are looking to customize Bugzilla, you can also take advantage
- of template hooks. To do so, create a directory in
- <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/template/en/custom/hook/</filename>
- that corresponds to the hook you wish to use, then place your
- customization templates into those directories. For example,
- if you wanted to use the hook "end" in
- <filename>global/useful-links.html.tmpl</filename>, you would
- create the directory <filename>BUGZILLA_ROOT/template/en/custom/hook/
- global/useful-links.html.tmpl/end/</filename> and add your customization
- template to this directory.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Obviously this method of customizing Bugzilla only lets you add code
- to the standard source files and templates; you cannot change the
- existing code. Nevertheless, for those customizations that only add
- code, this method can reduce conflicts when merging changes,
- making upgrading your customized Bugzilla installation easier.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cust-change-permissions">
- <title>Customizing Who Can Change What</title>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- This feature should be considered experimental; the Bugzilla code you
- will be changing is not stable, and could change or move between
- versions. Be aware that if you make modifications as outlined here,
- you may have
- to re-make them or port them if Bugzilla changes internally between
- versions, and you upgrade.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- Companies often have rules about which employees, or classes of employees,
- are allowed to change certain things in the bug system. For example,
- only the bug's designated QA Contact may be allowed to VERIFY the bug.
- Bugzilla has been
- designed to make it easy for you to write your own custom rules to define
- who is allowed to make what sorts of value transition.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- By default, assignees, QA owners and users
- with <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis> privileges can edit all fields of bugs,
- except group restrictions (unless they are members of the groups they
- are trying to change). Bug reporters also have the ability to edit some
- fields, but in a more restrictive manner. Other users, without
- <emphasis>editbugs</emphasis> privileges, can not edit
- bugs, except to comment and add themselves to the CC list.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For maximum flexibility, customizing this means editing Bugzilla's Perl
- code. This gives the administrator complete control over exactly who is
- allowed to do what. The relevant method is called
- <filename>check_can_change_field()</filename>,
- and is found in <filename>Bug.pm</filename> in your
- Bugzilla/ directory. If you open that file and search for
- <quote>sub check_can_change_field</quote>, you'll find it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This function has been carefully commented to allow you to see exactly
- how it works, and give you an idea of how to make changes to it.
- Certain marked sections should not be changed - these are
- the <quote>plumbing</quote> which makes the rest of the function work.
- In between those sections, you'll find snippets of code like:
- <programlisting> # Allow the assignee to change anything.
- if ($ownerid eq $whoid) {
- return 1;
- }</programlisting>
- It's fairly obvious what this piece of code does.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- So, how does one go about changing this function? Well, simple changes
- can be made just by removing pieces - for example, if you wanted to
- prevent any user adding a comment to a bug, just remove the lines marked
- <quote>Allow anyone to change comments.</quote> If you don't want the
- Reporter to have any special rights on bugs they have filed, just
- remove the entire section that deals with the Reporter.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- More complex customizations are not much harder. Basically, you add
- a check in the right place in the function, i.e. after all the variables
- you are using have been set up. So, don't look at $ownerid before
- $ownerid has been obtained from the database. You can either add a
- positive check, which returns 1 (allow) if certain conditions are true,
- or a negative check, which returns 0 (deny.) E.g.:
- <programlisting> if ($field eq "qacontact") {
- if (Bugzilla->user->groups("quality_assurance")) {
- return 1;
- }
- else {
- return 0;
- }
- }</programlisting>
- This says that only users in the group "quality_assurance" can change
- the QA Contact field of a bug.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Getting more weird:
- <programlisting><![CDATA[ if (($field eq "priority") &&
- (Bugzilla->user->email =~ /.*\@example\.com$/))
- {
- if ($oldvalue eq "P1") {
- return 1;
- }
- else {
- return 0;
- }
- }]]></programlisting>
- This says that if the user is trying to change the priority field,
- and their email address is @example.com, they can only do so if the
- old value of the field was "P1". Not very useful, but illustrative.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- If you are modifying <filename>process_bug.cgi</filename> in any
- way, do not change the code that is bounded by DO_NOT_CHANGE blocks.
- Doing so could compromise security, or cause your installation to
- stop working entirely.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- For a list of possible field names, look at the bugs table in the
- database. If you need help writing custom rules for your organization,
- ask in the newsgroup.
- </para>
- </section>
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-
-<appendix id="faq">
- <title>The Bugzilla FAQ</title>
-
- <para>
- This FAQ includes questions not covered elsewhere in the Guide.
- </para>
-
- <qandaset>
-
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-general">
- <title>General Questions</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-tryout">
- <para>
- Can I try out Bugzilla somewhere?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If you want to take a test ride, there are test installations
- at <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/"/>,
- ready to play with directly from your browser.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-license">
- <para>
- What license is Bugzilla distributed under?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla is covered by the Mozilla Public License.
- See details at <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-support">
- <para>
- How do I get commercial support for Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/support/consulting.html"/>
- is a list of companies and individuals who have asked us to
- list them as consultants for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are several experienced
- Bugzilla hackers on the mailing list/newsgroup who are willing
- to make themselves available for generous compensation.
- Try sending a message to the mailing list asking for a volunteer.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-companies">
- <para>
- What major companies or projects are currently using Bugzilla
- for bug-tracking?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- There are <emphasis>dozens</emphasis> of major companies with public
- Bugzilla sites to track bugs in their products. We have a fairly
- complete list available on our website at
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.org/installation-list/"/>. If you
- have an installation of Bugzilla and would like to be added to the
- list, whether it's a public install or not, simply e-mail
- Gerv <email>gerv@mozilla.org</email>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-maintainers">
- <para>
- Who maintains Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- A <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/developers/profiles.html">core
- team</ulink>, led by Dave Miller (justdave@bugzilla.org).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-compare">
- <para>
- How does Bugzilla stack up against other bug-tracking databases?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- We can't find any head-to-head comparisons of Bugzilla against
- other defect-tracking software. If you know of one, please get
- in touch. In the experience of Matthew Barnson (the original
- author of this FAQ), though, Bugzilla offers superior
- performance on commodity hardware, better price (free!), more
- developer-friendly features (such as stored queries, email
- integration, and platform independence), improved scalability,
- greater flexibility, and superior ease-of-use when compared
- to commercial bug-tracking software.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you happen to be a vendor for commercial bug-tracking
- software, and would like to submit a list of advantages your
- product has over Bugzilla, simply send it to
- <email>documentation@bugzilla.org</email> and we'd be happy to
- include the comparison in our documentation.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-bzmissing">
- <para>
- Why doesn't Bugzilla offer this or that feature or compatibility
- with this other tracking software?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It may be that the support has not been built yet, or that you
- have not yet found it. While Bugzilla makes strides in usability,
- customizability, scalability, and user interface with each release,
- that doesn't mean it can't still use improvement!
- </para>
- <para>
- The best way to make an enhancement request is to <ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">file
- a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org</ulink> and set the Severity
- to 'enhancement'. Your 'request for enhancement' (RFE) will
- start out in the UNCONFIRMED state, and will stay there until
- someone with the ability to CONFIRM the bug reviews it.
- If that person feels it to be a good request that fits in with
- Bugzilla's overall direction, the status will be changed to
- NEW; if not, they will probably explain why and set the bug
- to RESOLVED/WONTFIX. If someone else has made the same (or
- almost the same) request before, your request will be marked
- RESOLVED/DUPLICATE, and a pointer to the previous RFE will be
- added.
- </para>
- <para>
- Even if your RFE gets approved, that doesn't mean it's going
- to make it right into the next release; there are a limited
- number of developers, and a whole lot of RFEs... some of
- which are <emphasis>quite</emphasis> complex. If you're a
- code-hacking sort of person, you can help the project along
- by making a patch yourself that supports the functionality
- you require. If you have never contributed anything to
- Bugzilla before, please be sure to read the
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html">Developers' Guide</ulink>
- and
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/contributor.html">Contributors' Guide</ulink>
- before going ahead.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-db">
- <para>
- What databases does Bugzilla run on?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- MySQL is the default database for Bugzilla. It was originally chosen
- because it is free, easy to install, and was available for the hardware
- Netscape intended to run it on.
- </para>
- <para>
- As of Bugzilla 2.22, complete support for PostgreSQL
- is included. With this release using PostgreSQL with Bugzilla
- should be as stable as using MySQL. If you experience any problems
- with PostgreSQL compatibility, they will be taken as
- seriously as if you were running MySQL.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are plans to include an Oracle driver for Bugzilla 3.1.2.
- Track progress at
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189947">
- Bug 189947</ulink>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Sybase support was worked on for a time. However, several
- complicating factors have prevented Sybase support from
- being realized. There are currently no plans to revive it.
- </para>
- <para>
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237862">
- Bug 237862</ulink> is a good bug to read through if you'd
- like to see what progress is being made on general database
- compatibility.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-perlpath">
- <para>
- My perl is located at <filename>/usr/local/bin/perl</filename>
- and not <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. Is there an easy
- to change that in all the files that have this hard-coded?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The easiest way to get around this is to create a link from
- one to the other:
- <command>ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl</command>.
- If that's not an option for you, the following bit of perl
- magic will change all the shebang lines (that is to say,
- the line at the top of each file that starts with '#!'
- and contains the path) to something else:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-perl -pi -e 's@#\!/usr/bin/perl@#\!/usr/local/bin/perl@' *cgi *pl
- </programlisting>
- <para>
- Sadly, this command-line won't work on Windows unless you
- also have Cygwin. However, MySQL comes with a binary called
- <command>replace</command> which can do the job:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-C:\mysql\bin\replace "#!/usr/bin/perl" "#!C:\perl\bin\perl" -- *.cgi *.pl
- </programlisting>
- <note>
- <para>
- If your perl path is something else again, just follow the
- above examples and replace
- <filename>/usr/local/bin/perl</filename> with your own perl path.
- </para>
- </note>
- <para>
- Once you've modified all your files, you'll also need to modify the
- <filename>t/002goodperl.t</filename> test, as it tests that all
- shebang lines are equal to <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>.
- (For more information on the test suite, please check out the
- appropriate section in the <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html#testsuite">Developers'
- Guide</ulink>.) Having done this, run the test itself:
- <programlisting>
- perl runtests.pl 2 --verbose
- </programlisting>
- to ensure that you've modified all the relevant files.
- </para>
- <para>
- If using Apache on Windows, you can avoid the whole problem
- by setting the <ulink
- url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource">
- ScriptInterpreterSource</ulink> directive to 'Registry'.
- (If using Apache 2 or higher, set it to 'Registry-Strict'.)
- ScriptInterperterSource requires a registry entry
- <quote>HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cgi\Shell\ExecCGI\Command</quote> to
- associate .cgi files with your perl executable. If one does
- not already exist, create it with a default value of
- <quote>&lt;full path to perl&gt; -T</quote>, e.g.
- <quote>C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T</quote>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-cookie">
- <para>
- Is there an easy way to change the Bugzilla cookie name?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- At present, no.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-general-selinux">
- <para>
- How can Bugzilla be made to work under SELinux?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- As a web application, Bugzilla simply requires its root
- directory to have the httpd context applied for it to work
- properly under SELinux. This should happen automatically
- on distributions that use SELinux and that package Bugzilla
- (if it is installed with the native package management tools).
- Information on how to view and change SELinux file contexts
- can be found at the
- <ulink url="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/">
- SELinux FAQ</ulink>.
-
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-phb">
- <title>Managerial Questions</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-client">
- <para>
- Is Bugzilla web-based, or do you have to have specific software or
- a specific operating system on your machine?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It is web and e-mail based.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-priorities">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow us to define our own priorities and levels?
- Do we have complete freedom to change the labels of fields and
- format of them, and the choice of acceptable values?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. However, modifying some fields, notably those related to bug
- progression states, also require adjusting the program logic to
- compensate for the change.
- </para>
- <para>
- As of Bugzilla 3.0 custom fields can be created via the
- "Custom Fields" admin page.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-reporting">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla provide any reporting features, metrics, graphs,
- etc? You know, the type of stuff that management likes to see. :)
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. Look at <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/report.cgi"/>
- for samples of what Bugzilla can do in reporting and graphing.
- Fuller documentation is provided in <xref linkend="reporting"/>.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you can not get the reports you want from the included reporting
- scripts, it is possible to hook up a professional reporting package
- such as Crystal Reports using ODBC. If you choose to do this,
- beware that giving direct access to the database does contain some
- security implications. Even if you give read-only access to the
- bugs database it will bypass the secure bugs features of Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-email">
- <para>
- Is there email notification? If so, what do you see
- when you get an email?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Email notification is user-configurable. By default, the bug id
- and summary of the bug report accompany each email notification,
- along with a list of the changes made.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-emailapp">
- <para>
- Do users have to have any particular type of email application?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla email is sent in plain text, the most compatible
- mail format on the planet.
- <note>
- <para>
- If you decide to use the bugzilla_email integration features
- to allow Bugzilla to record responses to mail with the
- associated bug, you may need to caution your users to set
- their mailer to <quote>respond to messages in the format in
- which they were sent</quote>. For security reasons Bugzilla
- ignores HTML tags in comments, and if a user sends HTML-based
- email into Bugzilla the resulting comment looks downright awful.
- </para>
- </note>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-data">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla allow data to be imported and exported? If I had
- outsiders write up a bug report using a MS Word bug template,
- could that template be imported into <quote>matching</quote>
- fields? If I wanted to take the results of a query and export
- that data to MS Excel, could I do that?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla can output buglists as HTML (the default), CSV or RDF.
- The link for CSV can be found at the bottom of the buglist in HTML
- format. This CSV format can easily be imported into MS Excel or
- other spreadsheet applications.
- </para>
- <para>
- To use the RDF format of the buglist it is necessary to append a
- <computeroutput>&amp;ctype=rdf</computeroutput> to the URL. RDF
- is meant to be machine readable and thus it is assumed that the
- URL would be generated programmatically so there is no user visible
- link to this format.
- </para>
- <para>
- Currently the only script included with Bugzilla that can import
- data is <filename>importxml.pl</filename> which is intended to be
- used for importing the data generated by the XML ctype of
- <filename>show_bug.cgi</filename> in association with bug moving.
- Any other use is left as an exercise for the user.
- </para>
- <para>
- There are also scripts included in the <filename>contrib/</filename>
- directory for using e-mail to import information into Bugzilla,
- but these scripts are not currently supported and included for
- educational purposes.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-l10n">
- <para>
- Has anyone converted Bugzilla to another language to be
- used in other countries? Is it localizable?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. For more information including available translated templates,
- see <ulink
- url="http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html#localizations"/>.
- Some admin interfaces have been templatized (for easy localization)
- but many of them are still available in English only. Also, there
- may be issues with the charset not being declared. See <ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126266">bug 126226</ulink>
- for more information.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-reports">
- <para>
- Can a user create and save reports?
- Can they do this in Word format? Excel format?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes. No. Yes (using the CSV format).
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-backup">
- <para>
- Are there any backup features provided?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You should use the backup options supplied by your database platform.
- Vendor documentation for backing up a MySQL database can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html"/>.
- PostgreSQL backup documentation can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-maintenance">
- <para>
- What type of human resources are needed to be on staff to install
- and maintain Bugzilla? Specifically, what type of skills does the
- person need to have? I need to find out what types of individuals
- would we need to hire and how much would that cost if we were to
- go with Bugzilla vs. buying an <quote>out-of-the-box</quote>
- solution.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If Bugzilla is set up correctly from the start, continuing
- maintenance needs are minimal and can be done easily using
- the web interface.
- </para>
- <para>
- Commercial Bug-tracking software typically costs somewhere
- upwards of $20,000 or more for 5-10 floating licenses. Bugzilla
- consultation is available from skilled members of the newsgroup.
- Simple questions are answered there and then.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-installtime">
- <para>
- What time frame are we looking at if we decide to hire people
- to install and maintain the Bugzilla? Is this something that
- takes hours or days to install and a couple of hours per week
- to maintain and customize, or is this a multi-week install process,
- plus a full time job for 1 person, 2 people, etc?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- It all depends on your level of commitment. Someone with much
- Bugzilla experience can get you up and running in less than a day,
- and your Bugzilla install can run untended for years. If your
- Bugzilla strategy is critical to your business workflow, hire
- somebody to who has reasonable Perl skills, and a familiarity
- with the operating system on which Bugzilla will be running,
- and have them handle your process management, bug-tracking
- maintenance, and local customization.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-cost">
- <para>
- Is there any licensing fee or other fees for using Bugzilla? Any
- out-of-pocket cost other than the bodies needed as identified above?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- No. Bugzilla, Perl, the Template Toolkit, and all other support
- software needed to make Bugzilla work can be downloaded for free.
- MySQL and PostgreSQL -- the databases supported by Bugzilla --
- are also open-source. MySQL asks that if you find their product
- valuable, you purchase a support contract from them that suits your needs.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-phb-renameBugs">
- <para>
- We don't like referring to problems as 'bugs'. Can we change that?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Yes! As of Bugzilla 2.18, it is a simple matter to change the
- word 'bug' into whatever word/phrase is used by your organization.
- See the documentation on Customization for more details,
- specifically <xref linkend="template-specific"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-admin">
- <title>Administrative Questions</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-midair">
- <para>
- Does Bugzilla provide record locking when there is simultaneous
- access to the same bug? Does the second person get a notice
- that the bug is in use or how are they notified?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla does not lock records. It provides mid-air collision
- detection -- which means that it warns a user when a commit is
- about to conflict with commits recently made by another user,
- and offers the second user a choice of options to deal with
- the conflict.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-livebackup">
- <para>
- Can users be on the system while a backup is in progress?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Refer to your database platform documentation for details on how to do hot
- backups.
- Vendor documentation for backing up a MySQL database can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/B/a/Backup.html"/>.
- PostgreSQL backup documentation can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-cvsupdate">
- <para>
- How can I update the code and the database using CVS?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make a backup of both your Bugzilla directory and the
- database. For the Bugzilla directory this is as easy as
- doing <command>cp -rp bugzilla bugzilla.bak</command>.
- For the database, there's a number of options - see the
- MySQL docs and pick the one that fits you best (the easiest
- is to just make a physical copy of the database on the disk,
- but you have to have the database server shut down to do
- that without risking dataloss).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make the Bugzilla directory your current directory.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Use <command>cvs -q update -AdP</command> if you want to
- update to the tip or
- <command>cvs -q update -dP -rTAGNAME</command>
- if you want a specific version (in that case you'll have to
- replace TAGNAME with a CVS tag name such as BUGZILLA-2_16_5).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you've made no local changes, this should be very clean.
- If you have made local changes, then watch the cvs output
- for C results. If you get any lines that start with a C
- it means there were conflicts between your local changes
- and what's in CVS. You'll need to fix those manually before
- continuing.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- After resolving any conflicts that the cvs update operation
- generated, running <command>./checksetup.pl</command> will
- take care of updating the database for you as well as any
- other changes required for the new version to operate.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Once you run checksetup.pl, the only way to go back is
- to restore the database backups. You can't
- <quote>downgrade</quote> the system cleanly under most
- circumstances.
- </para>
- </warning>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- See also the instructions in <xref linkend="upgrade-cvs"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-enable-unconfirmed">
- <para>
- How do I make it so that bugs can have an UNCONFIRMED status?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- To use the UNCONFIRMED status, you must have the 'usevotes'
- parameter set to <quote>On</quote>. You must then visit the
- <filename>editproducts.cgi</filename> page and set the <quote>
- Number of votes a bug in this product needs to automatically
- get out of the UNCONFIRMED state</quote> to be a non-zero number.
- (You will have to do this for each product that wants to use
- the UNCONFIRMED state.) If you do not actually want users to be
- able to vote for bugs entered against this product, leave the
- <quote>Maximum votes per person</quote> value at '0'.
- </para>
- <para>
- There is work being done to decouple the UNCONFIRMED state from
- the 'usevotes' parameter for future versions of Bugzilla.
- Follow the discussion and progress at <ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162060">bug
- 162060</ulink>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-moving">
- <para>
- How do I move a Bugzilla installation from one machine to another?
- </para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>
- Reference your database vendor's documentation for information on
- backing up and restoring your Bugzilla database on to a different server.
- Vendor documentation for backing up a MySQL database can be found at
- <ulink url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysqldump.html"/>.
- PostgreSQL backup documentation can be found at
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup.html"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- On your new machine, follow the instructions found in <xref
- linkend="installing-bugzilla"/> as far as setting up the physical
- environment of the new machine with perl, webserver, modules, etc.
- Having done that, you can either: copy your entire Bugzilla
- directory from the old machine to a new one (if you want to keep
- your existing code and modifications), or download a newer version
- (if you are planning to upgrade at the same time). Even if you are
- upgrading to clean code, you will still want to bring over the
- <filename>localconfig</filename> file, and the
- <filename class="directory">data</filename> directory from the
- old machine, as they contain configuration information that you
- probably won't want to re-create.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If the hostname or port number of your database server changed
- as part of the move, you'll need to update the appropriate
- variables in localconfig before taking the next step.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Once you have your code in place, and your database has
- been restored from the backup you made in step 1, run
- <command>checksetup.pl</command>. This will upgrade your
- database (if necessary), rebuild your templates, etc.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-admin-makeadmin">
- <para>
- How do I make a new Bugzilla administrator?
- The previous administrator is gone...
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Run <command>checksetup.pl</command> with
- <option>--make-admin</option> option.
- Its usage is <option>--make-admin=user@example.org</option>.
- The user account must be exist in the Bugzilla database.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-security">
- <title>Bugzilla Security</title>
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-security-mysql">
- <para>
- How do I completely disable MySQL security if it's giving
- me problems? (I've followed the instructions in the installation
- section of this guide...)
- </para>
- </question>
-
- <answer>
- <para>
- You can run MySQL like this: <command>mysqld --skip-grant-tables</command>.
- However, doing so disables all MySQL security. This is a bad idea.
- Please consult <xref linkend="security-mysql"/> of this guide
- and the MySQL documentation for better solutions.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-security-knownproblems">
- <para>
- Are there any security problems with Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The Bugzilla code has undergone a reasonably complete security
- audit, and user-facing CGIs run under Perl's taint mode. However,
- it is recommended that you closely examine permissions on your
- Bugzilla installation, and follow the recommended security
- guidelines found in The Bugzilla Guide.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-email">
- <title>Bugzilla Email</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-nomail">
- <para>
- I have a user who doesn't want to receive any more email
- from Bugzilla. How do I stop it entirely for this user?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The user can stop Bugzilla from sending any mail by unchecking
- all boxes on the 'Edit prefs' -> 'Email settings' page.
- (As of 2.18,this is made easier by the addition of a 'Disable
- All Mail' button.) Alternately, you can add their email address
- to the <filename>data/nomail</filename> file (one email address
- per line). This will override their personal preferences, and
- they will never be sent mail again.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-testing">
- <para>
- I'm evaluating/testing Bugzilla, and don't want it to send email
- to anyone but me. How do I do it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- To disable email, set the
- <option>mail_delivery_method</option> parameter to
- <literal>none</literal> (2.20 and later), or
- <programlisting>$enableSendMail</programlisting> parameter to '0'
- in either <filename>BugMail.pm</filename> (2.18 and later) or
- <filename>processmail</filename> (up to 2.16.x).
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Up to 2.16.x, changing
- <programlisting>$enableSendMail</programlisting>
- will only affect bugmail; email related to password changes,
- email address changes, bug imports, flag changes, etc. will
- still be sent out. As of the final release of 2.18, however,
- the above step will disable <emphasis>all</emphasis> mail
- sent from Bugzilla for any purpose.
- </para>
- </note>
- <para>
- To have bugmail (and only bugmail) redirected to you instead of
- its intended recipients, leave
- <programlisting>$enableSendMail</programlisting> alone;
- instead, edit the <quote>newchangedmail</quote> parameter
- as follows:
- </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Replace <quote>To:</quote> with <quote>X-Real-To:</quote>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Replace <quote>Cc:</quote> with <quote>X-Real-CC:</quote>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Add a <quote>To: %lt;your_email_address&gt;</quote>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-whine">
- <para>
- I want whineatnews.pl to whine at something other than new and
- reopened bugs. How do I do it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- For older versions of Bugzilla, you may be able to apply
- Klaas Freitag's patch for <quote>whineatassigned</quote>,
- which can be found in
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6679">bug
- 6679</ulink>. Note that this patch was made in 2000, so it may take
- some work to apply cleanly to any releases of Bugzilla newer than
- that, but you can use it as a starting point.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- An updated (and much-expanded) version of this functionality is
- due to be released as part of Bugzilla 2.20; see
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185090">bug
- 185090</ulink> for the discussion, and for more up-to-date patches
- if you just can't wait.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-in">
- <para>
- How do I set up the email interface to submit or change bugs via email?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Bugzilla 3.0 and later offers the ability submit or change
- bugs via email, using the <filename>email_in.pl</filename>
- script within the root directory of the Bugzilla installation.
- More information on the script can be found in
- <ulink url="api/email_in.html">docs/html/api/email_in.html</ulink>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-sendmailnow">
- <para>
- Email takes FOREVER to reach me from Bugzilla -- it's
- extremely slow. What gives?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- If you are using <application>sendmail</application>, try
- enabling <option>sendmailnow</option> in
- <filename>editparams.cgi</filename>. For earlier versions of
- <application>sendmail</application>, one could achieve
- significant performance improvement in the UI (at the cost of
- delaying the sending of mail) by setting this parameter to
- <literal>off</literal>. Sites with
- <application>sendmail</application> version 8.12 (or higher)
- should leave this <literal>on</literal>, as they will not see
- any performance benefit.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are using an alternate
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-mta">MTA</glossterm>, make sure the
- options given in <filename>Bugzilla/BugMail.pm</filename>
- and any other place where <application>sendmail</application>
- is called are correct for your MTA.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-email-nonreceived">
- <para>
- How come email from Bugzilla changes never reaches me?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Double-check that you have not turned off email in your user
- preferences. Confirm that Bugzilla is able to send email by
- visiting the <quote>Log In</quote> link of your Bugzilla
- installation and clicking the <quote>Submit Request</quote>
- button after entering your email address.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you never receive mail from Bugzilla, chances are you do
- not have sendmail in "/usr/lib/sendmail". Ensure sendmail
- lives in, or is symlinked to, "/usr/lib/sendmail".
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are using an MTA other than
- <application>sendmail</application> the
- <option>sendmailnow</option> param must be set to
- <literal>on</literal> or no mail will be sent.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-db">
- <title>Bugzilla Database</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-corrupted">
- <para>
- I think my database might be corrupted, or contain
- invalid entries. What do I do?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Run the <quote>sanity check</quote> utility
- (<filename>sanitycheck.cgi</filename>) from your web browser
- to see! If it finishes without errors, you're
- <emphasis>probably</emphasis> OK. If it doesn't come back
- OK (i.e. any red letters), there are certain things
- Bugzilla can recover from and certain things it can't. If
- it can't auto-recover, I hope you're familiar with
- mysqladmin commands or have installed another way to
- manage your database. Sanity Check, although it is a good
- basic check on your database integrity, by no means is a
- substitute for competent database administration and
- avoiding deletion of data. It is not exhaustive, and was
- created to do a basic check for the most common problems
- in Bugzilla databases.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-manualedit">
- <para>
- I want to manually edit some entries in my database. How?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- There is no facility in Bugzilla itself to do this. It's also
- generally not a smart thing to do if you don't know exactly what
- you're doing. If you understand SQL, though, you can use the
- <command>mysql</command> or <command>psql</command> command line
- utilities to manually insert, delete and modify table information.
- There are also more intuitive GUI clients available for both MySQL
- and PostgreSQL. For MySQL, we recommend
- <ulink url="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/">phpMyAdmin</ulink>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Remember, backups are your friend. Everyone makes mistakes, and
- it's nice to have a safety net in case you mess something up.
- </para>
-
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-permissions">
- <para>
- I think I've set up MySQL permissions correctly, but Bugzilla still
- can't connect.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Try running MySQL from its binary:
- <command>mysqld --skip-grant-tables</command>.
- This will allow you to completely rule out grant tables as the
- cause of your frustration. If this Bugzilla is able to connect
- at this point then you need to check that you have granted proper
- permission to the user password combo defined in
- <filename>localconfig</filename>.
- </para>
- <warning>
- <para>
- Running MySQL with this command line option is very insecure and
- should only be done when not connected to the external network
- as a troubleshooting step. Please do not run your production
- database in this mode.
- </para>
- </warning>
- <para>
- You may also be suffering from a client version mismatch:
- </para>
- <para>
- MySQL 4.1 and up uses an authentication protocol based on
- a password hashing algorithm that is incompatible with that
- used by older clients. If you upgrade the server to 4.1,
- attempts to connect to it with an older client may fail
- with the following message:
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen><prompt>shell&gt;</prompt> mysql
- Client does not support authentication protocol requested
- by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
- </screen>
- </para>
- <para>
- To solve this problem, you should use one of the following
- approaches:
- </para>
- <para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Upgrade all client programs to use a 4.1.1 or newer
- client library.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When connecting to the server with a pre-4.1 client
- program, use an account that still has a
- pre-4.1-style password.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Reset the password to pre-4.1 style for each user
- that needs to use a pre-4.1 client program.
- This can be done using the SET PASSWORD statement
- and the OLD_PASSWORD() function:
- <screen>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> SET PASSWORD FOR
- <prompt> -&gt;</prompt> ' some_user '@' some_host ' = OLD_PASSWORD(' newpwd ');
- </screen>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
-
-
- <para>
- </para>
-
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-db-synchronize">
- <para>
- How do I synchronize bug information among multiple
- different Bugzilla databases?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Well, you can synchronize or you can move bugs.
- Synchronization will only work one way -- you can create
- a read-only copy of the database at one site, and have it
- regularly updated at intervals from the main database.
- </para>
- <para>
- MySQL has some synchronization features built-in to the
- latest releases. It would be great if someone looked into
- the possibilities there and provided a report to the
- newsgroup on how to effectively synchronize two Bugzilla
- installations.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you simply need to transfer bugs from one Bugzilla to another,
- checkout the <quote>move.pl</quote> script in the Bugzilla
- distribution.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-nt">
- <title>Can Bugzilla run on a Windows server?</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-easiest">
- <para>
- What is the easiest way to run Bugzilla on Win32 (Win98+/NT/2K)?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Making Bugzilla work easily with Windows
- was one of the major goals of the 2.18 milestone. If the
- necessary components are in place (perl, a webserver, an MTA, etc.)
- then installation of Bugzilla on a Windows box should be no more
- difficult than on any other platform. As with any installation,
- we recommend that you carefully and completely follow the
- installation instructions in <xref linkend="os-win32"/>.
- </para>
- <para>
- While doing so, don't forget to check out the very excellent guide
- to <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/win32install.html">
- Installing Bugzilla on Microsoft Windows</ulink> written by
- Byron Jones. Thanks, Byron!
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-bundle">
- <para>
- Is there a "Bundle::Bugzilla" equivalent for Win32?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Not currently. Bundle::Bugzilla enormously simplifies Bugzilla
- installation on UNIX systems. If someone can volunteer to
- create a suitable PPM bundle for Win32, it would be appreciated.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-mappings">
- <para>
- CGI's are failing with a <quote>something.cgi is not a valid
- Windows NT application</quote> error. Why?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Depending on what Web server you are using, you will have to
- configure the Web server to treat *.cgi files as CGI scripts.
- In IIS, you do this by adding *.cgi to the App Mappings with
- the &lt;path&gt;\perl.exe %s %s as the executable.
- </para>
- <para>
- Microsoft has some advice on this matter, as well:
- <blockquote>
- <para>
- <quote>Set application mappings. In the ISM, map the extension
- for the script file(s) to the executable for the script
- interpreter. For example, you might map the extension .py to
- Python.exe, the executable for the Python script interpreter.
- Note For the ActiveState Perl script interpreter, the extension
- '.pl' is associated with PerlIS.dll by default. If you want
- to change the association of .pl to perl.exe, you need to
- change the application mapping. In the mapping, you must add
- two percent (%) characters to the end of the pathname for
- perl.exe, as shown in this example:
- <command>c:\perl\bin\perl.exe %s %s</command></quote>
- </para>
- </blockquote>
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-nt-dbi">
- <para>
- I'm having trouble with the perl modules for NT not being
- able to talk to the database.
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Your modules may be outdated or inaccurate. Try:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Hitting <ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl"/>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Download ActivePerl
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Go to your prompt
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Type 'ppm'
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <prompt>PPM></prompt> <command>install DBI DBD-mysql GD</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- I reckon TimeDate comes with the activeperl.
- You can check the ActiveState site for packages for installation
- through PPM. <ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/Packages/"/>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-use">
- <title>Bugzilla Usage</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-changeaddress">
- <para>
- How do I change my user name (email address) in Bugzilla?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- You can change your email address from the Name and Password
- section in Preferences. You will be emailed at both the old
- and new addresses for confirmation. 'Administrative Policies'
- must have the 'allowemailchange' parameter set to <quote>On</quote>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-query">
- <para>
- The query page is very confusing.
- Isn't there a simpler way to query?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The interface was simplified by a UI designer for 2.16. Further
- suggestions for improvement are welcome, but we won't sacrifice
- power for simplicity.
- </para>
- <para>
- As of 2.18, there is also a 'simpler' search available. At the top
- of the search page are two links; <quote>Advanced Search</quote>
- will take you to the familiar full-power/full-complexity search
- page. The <quote>Find a Specific Bug</quote> link will take you
- to a much-simplified page where you can pick a product and
- status (open,closed, or both), then enter words that appear in
- the bug you want to find. This search will scour the 'Summary'
- and 'Comment' fields, and return a list of bugs sorted so that
- the bugs with the most hits/matches are nearer to the top.
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- Matches in the Summary will 'trump' matches in comments,
- and bugs with summary-matches will be placed higher in
- the buglist -- even if a lower-ranked bug has more matches
- in the comments section.
- </para>
- </note>
- <para>
- Bugzilla uses a cookie to remember which version of the page
- you visited last, and brings that page up when you next do a
- search. The default page for new users (or after an upgrade)
- is the 'simple' search.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-accept">
- <para>
- I'm confused by the behavior of the <quote>Accept</quote>
- button in the Show Bug form. Why doesn't it assign the bug
- to me when I accept it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The current behavior is acceptable to bugzilla.mozilla.org and
- most users. If you want to change this behavior, though, you
- have your choice of patches:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35195">Bug 35195</ulink>
- seeks to add an <quote>...and accept the bug</quote> checkbox
- to the UI. It has two patches attached to it:
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=8029">attachment 8029</ulink>
- was originally created for Bugzilla 2.12, while
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=91372">attachment 91372</ulink>
- is an updated version for Bugzilla 2.16
- </member>
- <member>
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37613">Bug
- 37613</ulink> also provides two patches (against Bugzilla
- 2.12): one to add a 'Take Bug' option, and the other to
- automatically reassign the bug on 'Accept'.
- </member>
- </simplelist>
- These patches are all somewhat dated now, and cannot be applied
- directly, but they are simple enough to provide a guide on how
- Bugzilla can be customized and updated to suit your needs.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-attachment">
- <para>
- I can't upload anything into the database via the
- <quote>Create Attachment</quote> link. What am I doing wrong?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- The most likely cause is a very old browser or a browser that is
- incompatible with file upload via POST. Download the latest version
- of your favourite browser to handle uploads correctly.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-keyword">
- <para>
- How do I change a keyword in Bugzilla, once some bugs are using it?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- In the Bugzilla administrator UI, edit the keyword and
- it will let you replace the old keyword name with a new one.
- This will cause a problem with the keyword cache; run
- <command>sanitycheck.cgi</command> to fix it.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-use-close">
- <para>
- Why can't I close bugs from the <quote>Change Several Bugs
- at Once</quote> page?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Simple answer; you can.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The logic behind the page checks every bug in the list to
- determine legal state changes, and then only shows you controls
- to do things that could apply to <emphasis>every</emphasis> bug
- on the list. The reason for this is that if you try to do something
- illegal to a bug, the whole process will grind to a halt, and all
- changes after the failed one will <emphasis>also</emphasis> fail.
- Since that isn't a good outcome, the page doesn't even present
- you with the option.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In practical terms, that means that in order to mark
- multiple bugs as CLOSED, then every bug on the page has to be
- either RESOLVED or VERIFIED already; if this is not the case,
- then the option to close the bugs will not appear on the page.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The rationale is that if you pick one of the bugs that's not
- VERIFIED and try to CLOSE it, the bug change will fail
- miserably (thus killing any changes in the list after it
- while doing the bulk change) so it doesn't even give you the
- choice.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- <qandadiv id="faq-hacking">
- <title>Bugzilla Hacking</title>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-templatestyle">
- <para>
- What kind of style should I use for templatization?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Gerv and Myk suggest a 2-space indent, with embedded code sections on
- their own line, in line with outer tags. Like this:</para>
- <programlisting><![CDATA[
-<fred>
-[% IF foo %]
- <bar>
- [% FOREACH x = barney %]
- <tr>
- <td>
- [% x %]
- </td>
- <tr>
- [% END %]
-[% END %]
-</fred>
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para> Myk also recommends you turn on PRE_CHOMP in the template
- initialization to prevent bloating of HTML with unnecessary whitespace.
- </para>
-
- <para>Please note that many have differing opinions on this subject,
- and the existing templates in Bugzilla espouse both this and a 4-space
- style. Either is acceptable; the above is preferred.</para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-bugzillabugs">
- <para>
- What bugs are in Bugzilla right now?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- Try <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;product=Bugzilla">
- this link</ulink> to view current bugs or requests for
- enhancement for Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <para>
- You can view bugs marked for &bz-nextver; release
- <ulink url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Bugzilla&amp;target_milestone=Bugzilla+&amp;bz-nextver;">here</ulink>.
- This list includes bugs for the &bz-nextver; release that have already
- been fixed and checked into CVS. Please consult the
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/">
- Bugzilla Project Page</ulink> for details on how to
- check current sources out of CVS so you can have these
- bug fixes early!
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-priority">
- <para>
- How can I change the default priority to a null value?
- For instance, have the default priority be <quote>---</quote>
- instead of <quote>P2</quote>?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <para>
- This is well-documented in <ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49862">bug
- 49862</ulink>. Ultimately, it's as easy as adding the
- <quote>---</quote> priority field to your localconfig file
- in the appropriate area, re-running checksetup.pl, and then
- changing the default priority in your browser using
- <command>editparams.cgi</command>.
- </para>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
- <qandaentry>
- <question id="faq-hacking-patches">
- <para>
- What's the best way to submit patches? What guidelines
- should I follow?
- </para>
- </question>
- <answer>
- <blockquote>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enter a bug into bugzilla.mozilla.org for the <quote><ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">Bugzilla</ulink></quote>
- product.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Upload your patch as a unified diff (having used <quote>diff
- -u</quote> against the <emphasis>current sources</emphasis>
- checked out of CVS), or new source file by clicking
- <quote>Create a new attachment</quote> link on the bug
- page you've just created, and include any descriptions of
- database changes you may make, into the bug ID you submitted
- in step #1. Be sure and click the <quote>Patch</quote> checkbox
- to indicate the text you are sending is a patch!
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Announce your patch and the associated URL
- (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX)
- for discussion in the newsgroup
- (mozilla.support.bugzilla). You'll get a
- really good, fairly immediate reaction to the
- implications of your patch, which will also give us
- an idea how well-received the change would be.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If it passes muster with minimal modification, the
- person to whom the bug is assigned in Bugzilla is
- responsible for seeing the patch is checked into CVS.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bask in the glory of the fact that you helped write
- the most successful open-source bug-tracking software
- on the planet :)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </blockquote>
- </answer>
- </qandaentry>
-
-
- </qandadiv>
-
- </qandaset>
-
-</appendix>
-
-
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diff --git a/docs/xml/filetemp.patch b/docs/xml/filetemp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fb70adce..000000000
--- a/docs/xml/filetemp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- File/Temp.pm.orig Thu Feb 6 16:26:00 2003
-+++ File/Temp.pm Thu Feb 6 16:26:23 2003
-@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
-@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@
- # eg CGI::Carp
- local $SIG{__DIE__} = sub {};
- local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {};
-+ local *CORE::GLOBAL::die = sub {};
- $bit = &$func();
- 1;
- };
diff --git a/docs/xml/gfdl.xml b/docs/xml/gfdl.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d84d1255..000000000
--- a/docs/xml/gfdl.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,445 +0,0 @@
-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-<appendix id="gfdl">
- <title>GNU Free Documentation License</title>
-
-<!-- - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) -->
-<!-- LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org" -->
-<!-- section>
- <title>GNU Free Documentation License</title -->
- <para>Version 1.1, March 2000</para>
-
- <blockquote>
- <para>Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place,
- Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and
- distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is
- not allowed.</para>
- </blockquote>
-
- <section label="0" id="gfdl-0">
- <title>Preamble</title>
-
- <para>The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
- written document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the
- effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying
- it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily, this License
- preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their
- work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by
- others.</para>
-
- <para>This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
- works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
- complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license
- designed for free software.</para>
-
- <para>We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for
- free software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
- program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
- software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it
- can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether
- it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally
- for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="1" id="gfdl-1">
- <title>Applicability and Definition</title>
-
- <para>This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
- notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under
- the terms of this License. The "Document", below, refers to any such
- manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is addressed
- as "you".</para>
-
- <para>A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
- Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
- modifications and/or translated into another language.</para>
-
- <para>A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section
- of the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
- publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
- (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
- within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
- textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
- mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical connection
- with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial,
- philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.</para>
-
- <para>The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose
- titles are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the
- notice that says that the Document is released under this License.</para>
-
- <para>The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are
- listed, as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says
- that the Document is released under this License.</para>
-
- <para>A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
- represented in a format whose specification is available to the general
- public, whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and
- straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
- pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
- drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or for
- automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input to text
- formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose
- markup has been designed to thwart or discourage subsequent modification
- by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is not "Transparent" is called
- "Opaque".</para>
-
- <para>Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
- ASCII without markup, Texinfo input format, LaTeX input format, SGML or
- XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple HTML
- designed for human modification. Opaque formats include PostScript, PDF,
- proprietary formats that can be read and edited only by proprietary word
- processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or processing tools are not
- generally available, and the machine-generated HTML produced by some word
- processors for output purposes only.</para>
-
- <para>The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
- plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
- this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in formats
- which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means the text
- near the most prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the
- beginning of the body of the text.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="2" id="gfdl-2">
- <title>Verbatim Copying</title>
-
- <para>You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
- commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
- copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to
- the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
- conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use technical
- measures to obstruct or control the reading or further copying of the
- copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept compensation in
- exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough number of copies
- you must also follow the conditions in section 3.</para>
-
- <para>You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above,
- and you may publicly display copies.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="3" id="gfdl-3">
- <title>Copying in Quantity</title>
-
- <para>If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than
- 100, and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must
- enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these
- Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts
- on the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify you
- as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present the full
- title with all words of the title equally prominent and visible. You may
- add other material on the covers in addition. Copying with changes
- limited to the covers, as long as they preserve the title of the Document
- and satisfy these conditions, can be treated as verbatim copying in other
- respects.</para>
-
- <para>If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
- legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit reasonably)
- on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent pages.</para>
-
- <para>If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document
- numbering more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable
- Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each
- Opaque copy a publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a
- complete Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which
- the general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no
- charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter
- option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin
- distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this
- Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location until
- at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque copy
- (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to the
- public.</para>
-
- <para>It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of
- the Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to
- give them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the
- Document.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="4" id="gfdl-4">
- <title>Modifications</title>
-
- <para>You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document
- under the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
- the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
- Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution and
- modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy of it.
- In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:</para>
-
- <orderedlist numeration="upperalpha">
- <listitem>
- <para>Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title
- distinct from that of the Document, and from those of previous
- versions (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History
- section of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous
- version if the original publisher of that version gives
- permission.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or
- entities responsible for authorship of the modifications in the
- Modified Version, together with at least five of the principal
- authors of the Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less
- than five).</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
- Modified Version, as the publisher.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
- adjacent to the other copyright notices.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license
- notice giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under
- the terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum
- below.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant
- Sections and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license
- notice.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Include an unaltered copy of this License.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Preserve the section entitled "History", and its title, and add
- to it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
- publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
- there is no section entitled "History" in the Document, create one
- stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
- given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
- Version as stated in the previous sentence.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document
- for public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
- the network locations given in the Document for previous versions it
- was based on. These may be placed in the "History" section. You may
- omit a network location for a work that was published at least four
- years before the Document itself, or if the original publisher of the
- version it refers to gives permission.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In any section entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
- preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
- substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or
- dedications given therein.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered
- in their text and in their titles. Section numbers or the equivalent
- are not considered part of the section titles.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Delete any section entitled "Endorsements". Such a section may
- not be included in the Modified Version.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Do not retitle any existing section as "Endorsements" or to
- conflict in title with any Invariant Section.</para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
- appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
- copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all of
- these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the list of
- Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice. These titles
- must be distinct from any other section titles.</para>
-
- <para>You may add a section entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
- nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various parties--for
- example, statements of peer review or that the text has been approved by
- an organization as the authoritative definition of a standard.</para>
-
- <para>You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text,
- and a passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the
- list of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
- Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or through
- arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already includes a
- cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or by arrangement
- made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of, you may not add
- another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit permission from the
- previous publisher that added the old one.</para>
-
- <para>The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this
- License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert
- or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="5" id="gfdl-5">
- <title>Combining Documents</title>
-
- <para>You may combine the Document with other documents released under
- this License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
- versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
- Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and list
- them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license
- notice.</para>
-
- <para>The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
- multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy.
- If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different
- contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end
- of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of
- that section if known, or else a unique number. Make the same adjustment
- to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license
- notice of the combined work.</para>
-
- <para>In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled
- "History" in the various original documents, forming one section entitled
- "History"; likewise combine any sections entitled "Acknowledgements", and
- any sections entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections
- entitled "Endorsements."</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="6" id="gfdl-6">
- <title>Collections of Documents</title>
-
- <para>You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other
- documents released under this License, and replace the individual copies
- of this License in the various documents with a single copy that is
- included in the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this
- License for verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other
- respects.</para>
-
- <para>You may extract a single document from such a collection, and
- distribute it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy
- of this License into the extracted document, and follow this License in
- all other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section label="7" id="gfdl-7">
- <title>Aggregation with Independent Works</title>
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-<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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-<chapter id="installing-bugzilla">
- <title>Installing Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="installation">
- <title>Installation</title>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you just want to <emphasis>use</emphasis> Bugzilla,
- you do not need to install it. None of this chapter is relevant to
- you. Ask your Bugzilla administrator for the URL to access it from
- your web browser.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>The Bugzilla server software is usually installed on Linux or
- Solaris.
- If you are installing on another OS, check <xref linkend="os-specific"/>
- before you start your installation to see if there are any special
- instructions.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As an alternative to following these instructions, you may wish to
- try Arne Schirmacher's unofficial and unsupported
- <ulink url="http://www.softwaretesting.de/article/view/33/1/8/">Bugzilla
- Installer</ulink>, which installs Bugzilla and all its prerequisites
- on Linux or Solaris systems.
- </para>
-
- <para>This guide assumes that you have administrative access to the
- Bugzilla machine. It not possible to
- install and run Bugzilla itself without administrative access except
- in the very unlikely event that every single prerequisite is
- already installed.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>The installation process may make your machine insecure for
- short periods of time. Make sure there is a firewall between you
- and the Internet.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system
- before installing Bugzilla (and at regular intervals thereafter :-).
- </para>
-
- <para>In outline, the installation proceeds as follows:
- </para>
-
- <procedure>
- <step>
- <para><link linkend="install-perl">Install Perl</link>
- (&min-perl-ver; or above)
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para><link linkend="install-database">Install a Database Engine</link>
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para><link linkend="install-webserver">Install a Webserver</link>
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para><link linkend="install-bzfiles">Install Bugzilla</link>
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para><link linkend="install-perlmodules">Install Perl modules</link>
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-MTA">Install a Mail Transfer Agent</link>
- (Sendmail 8.7 or above, or an MTA that is Sendmail-compatible with at least this version)
- </para>
- </step>
- <step>
- <para>Configure all of the above.
- </para>
- </step>
- </procedure>
-
- <section id="install-perl">
- <title>Perl</title>
-
- <para>Installed Version Test: <filename>perl -v</filename></para>
-
- <para>Any machine that doesn't have Perl on it is a sad machine indeed.
- If you don't have it and your OS doesn't provide official packages,
- visit <ulink url="http://www.perl.com"/>.
- Although Bugzilla runs with Perl &min-perl-ver;,
- it's a good idea to be using the latest stable version.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-database">
- <title>Database Engine</title>
-
- <para>From Bugzilla 2.20, support is included for using both the MySQL and
- PostgreSQL database servers. You only require one of these systems to make
- use of Bugzilla.</para>
-
- <section id="install-mysql">
- <title>MySQL</title>
- <para>Installed Version Test: <filename>mysql -V</filename></para>
-
- <para>
- If you don't have it and your OS doesn't provide official packages,
- visit <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com"/>. You need MySQL version
- &min-mysql-ver; or higher.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para> Many of the binary
- versions of MySQL store their data files in
- <filename class="directory">/var</filename>.
- On some Unix systems, this is part of a smaller root partition,
- and may not have room for your bug database. To change the data
- directory, you have to build MySQL from source yourself, and
- set it as an option to <filename>configure</filename>.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>If you install from something other than a packaging/installation
- system, such as .rpm (Redhat Package), .deb (Debian Package), .exe
- (Windows Executable), or .msi (Microsoft Installer), make sure the MySQL
- server is started when the machine boots.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-pg">
- <title>PostgreSQL</title>
- <para>Installed Version Test: <filename>psql -V</filename></para>
-
- <para>
- If you don't have it and your OS doesn't provide official packages,
- visit <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/"/>. You need PostgreSQL
- version &min-pg-ver; or higher.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you install from something other than a packaging/installation
- system, such as .rpm (Redhat Package), .deb (Debian Package), .exe
- (Windows Executable), or .msi (Microsoft Installer), make sure the
- PostgreSQL server is started when the machine boots.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-webserver">
- <title>Web Server</title>
-
- <para>Installed Version Test: view the default welcome page at
- http://&lt;your-machine&gt;/</para>
-
- <para>You have freedom of choice here, pretty much any web server that
- is capable of running <glossterm linkend="gloss-cgi">CGI</glossterm>
- scripts will work.
- However, we strongly recommend using the Apache web server
- (either 1.3.x or 2.x), and
- the installation instructions usually assume you are
- using it. If you have got Bugzilla working using another web server,
- please share your experiences with us by filing a bug in &bzg-bugs;.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you don't have Apache and your OS doesn't provide official packages,
- visit <ulink url="http://httpd.apache.org/"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-bzfiles">
- <title>Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>
- Download a Bugzilla tarball (or check it out from CVS) and place
- it in a suitable directory, accessible by the default web server user
- (probably <quote>apache</quote> or <quote>www</quote>).
- Good locations are either directly in the web server's document directories or
- in <filename>/usr/local</filename> with a symbolic link to the web server's
- document directories or an alias in the web server's configuration.
- </para>
-
- <caution>
- <para>The default Bugzilla distribution is NOT designed to be placed
- in a <filename class="directory">cgi-bin</filename> directory. This
- includes any directory which is configured using the
- <option>ScriptAlias</option> directive of Apache.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <para>Once all the files are in a web accessible directory, make that
- directory writable by your web server's user. This is a temporary step
- until you run the
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>
- script, which locks down your installation.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-perlmodules">
- <title>Perl Modules</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla's installation process is based
- on a script called <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>.
- The first thing it checks is whether you have appropriate
- versions of all the required
- Perl modules. The aim of this section is to pass this check.
- When it passes, proceed to <xref linkend="configuration"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- At this point, you need to <filename>su</filename> to root. You should
- remain as root until the end of the install. To check you have the
- required modules, run:
- </para>
-
- <screen><prompt>bash#</prompt> ./checksetup.pl --check-modules</screen>
-
- <para>
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> will print out a list of the
- required and optional Perl modules, together with the versions
- (if any) installed on your machine.
- The list of required modules is reasonably long; however, you
- may already have several of them installed.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- There is a meta-module called Bundle::Bugzilla,
- which installs all the other
- modules with a single command. You should use this if you are running
- Perl 5.6.1 or above.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The preferred way of installing Perl modules is via CPAN on Unix,
- or PPM on Windows (see <xref linkend="win32-perl-modules"/>). These
- instructions assume you are using CPAN; if for some reason you need
- to install the Perl modules manually, see
- <xref linkend="install-perlmodules-manual"/>.
- </para>
-
- <screen><prompt>bash#</prompt> perl -MCPAN -e 'install "&lt;modulename&gt;"'</screen>
-
- <para>
- If you using Bundle::Bugzilla, invoke the magic CPAN command on it.
- Otherwise, you need to work down the
- list of modules that <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> says are
- required, in the order given, invoking the command on each.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>Many people complain that Perl modules will not install for
- them. Most times, the error messages complain that they are missing a
- file in
- <quote>@INC</quote>.
- Virtually every time, this error is due to permissions being set too
- restrictively for you to compile Perl modules or not having the
- necessary Perl development libraries installed on your system.
- Consult your local UNIX systems administrator for help solving these
- permissions issues; if you
- <emphasis>are</emphasis>
- the local UNIX sysadmin, please consult the newsgroup/mailing list
- for further assistance or hire someone to help you out.</para>
- </tip>
-
- <note>
- <para>If you are using a package-based system, and attempting to install the
- Perl modules from CPAN, you may need to install the "development" packages for
- MySQL and GD before attempting to install the related Perl modules. The names of
- these packages will vary depending on the specific distribution you are using,
- but are often called <filename>&lt;packagename&gt;-devel</filename>.</para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Here is a complete list of modules and their minimum versions.
- Some modules have special installation notes, which follow.
- </para>
-
- <para>Required Perl modules:
- <orderedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- CGI &min-cgi-ver; or CGI &min-mp-cgi-ver; if using mod_perl
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Date::Format (&min-date-format-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- DBI (&min-dbi-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-dbd-mysql">DBD::mysql</link>
- (&min-dbd-mysql-ver;) if using MySQL
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- DBD::Pg (&min-dbd-pg-ver;) if using PostgreSQL
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- File::Spec (&min-file-spec-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-template">Template</link>
- (&min-template-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email::Send (&min-email-send-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email::MIME::Modifier (&min-email-mime-modifier-ver;)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- Optional Perl modules:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-gd">GD</link>
- (&min-gd-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Template::Plugin::GD::Image
- (&min-gd-ver;) for Graphical Reports
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-chart-base">Chart::Base</link>
- (&min-chart-base-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-gd-graph">GD::Graph</link>
- (&min-gd-graph-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-gd-text">GD::Text</link>
- (&min-gd-text-ver;) for bug charting
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-xml-twig">XML::Twig</link>
- (&min-xml-twig-ver;) for bug import/export
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- MIME::Parser (&min-mime-parser-ver;) for bug import/export
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- LWP::UserAgent
- (&min-lwp-useragent-ver;) for Automatic Update Notifications
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-patchreader">PatchReader</link>
- (&min-patchreader-ver;) for pretty HTML view of patches
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Image::Magick (&min-image-magick-ver;) for converting BMP image attachments to PNG
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Net::LDAP
- (&min-net-ldap-ver;) for LDAP Authentication
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Authen::Radius
- (&min-authen-radius-ver;) for RADIUS Authentication
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <link linkend="install-modules-soap-lite">SOAP::Lite</link>
- (&min-soap-lite-ver;) for the web service interface
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- HTML::Parser
- (&min-html-parser-ver;) for More HTML in Product/Group Descriptions
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- HTML::Scrubber
- (&min-html-scrubber-ver;) for More HTML in Product/Group Descriptions
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper
- (&min-email-mime-attachment-stripper-ver;) for Inbound Email
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Email::Reply
- (&min-email-reply-ver;) for Inbound Email
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- mod_perl2
- (&min-mod_perl2-ver;) for mod_perl
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- CGI
- (&min-cgi-ver;) for mod_perl
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- </orderedlist>
- </para>
-
- <section id="install-modules-dbd-mysql">
- <title>DBD::mysql</title>
-
- <para>The installation process will ask you a few questions about the
- desired compilation target and your MySQL installation. For most of the
- questions the provided default will be adequate, but when asked if your
- desired target is the MySQL or mSQL packages, you should
- select the MySQL-related ones. Later you will be asked if you wish to
- provide backwards compatibility with the older MySQL packages; you
- should answer YES to this question. The default is NO.</para>
-
- <para>A host of 'localhost' should be fine. A testing user of 'test',
- with a null password, should have sufficient access to run
- tests on the 'test' database which MySQL creates upon installation.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-template">
- <title>Template Toolkit (&min-template-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>When you install Template Toolkit, you'll get asked various
- questions about features to enable. The defaults are fine, except
- that it is recommended you use the high speed XS Stash of the Template
- Toolkit, in order to achieve best performance.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-gd">
- <title>GD (&min-gd-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The GD module is only required if you want graphical reports.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>The Perl GD module requires some other libraries that may or
- may not be installed on your system, including
- <classname>libpng</classname>
- and
- <classname>libgd</classname>.
- The full requirements are listed in the Perl GD module README.
- If compiling GD fails, it's probably because you're
- missing a required library.</para>
- </note>
-
- <tip>
- <para>The version of the GD module you need is very closely tied
- to the <classname>libgd</classname> version installed on your system.
- If you have a version 1.x of <classname>libgd</classname> the 2.x
- versions of the GD module won't work for you.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-chart-base">
- <title>Chart::Base (&min-chart-base-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The Chart::Base module is only required if you want graphical
- reports.
- Note that earlier versions that 0.99c used GIFs, which are no longer
- supported by the latest versions of GD.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-gd-graph">
- <title>GD::Graph (&min-gd-graph-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The GD::Graph module is only required if you want graphical
- reports.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-gd-text">
- <title>GD::Text (&min-gd-text-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The GD::Text module is only required if you want graphical
- reports.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-xml-twig">
- <title>XML::Twig (&min-xml-twig-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The XML::Twig module is only required if you want to import
- XML bugs using the <filename>importxml.pl</filename>
- script. This is required to use Bugzilla's "move bugs" feature;
- you may also want to use it for migrating from another bug database.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-soap-lite">
- <title>SOAP::Lite (&min-soap-lite-ver;)</title>
- <para>Installing SOAP::Lite enables your Bugzilla installation to be
- accessible at a standardized Web Service interface (SOAP/XML-RPC)
- by third-party applications via HTTP(S).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-modules-patchreader">
- <title>PatchReader (&min-patchreader-ver;)</title>
-
- <para>The PatchReader module is only required if you want to use
- Patch Viewer, a
- Bugzilla feature to show code patches in your web browser in a more
- readable form.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="install-MTA">
- <title>Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla is dependent on the availability of an e-mail system for its
- user authentication and for other tasks.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- This is not entirely true. It is possible to completely disable
- email sending, or to have Bugzilla store email messages in a
- file instead of sending them. However, this is mainly intended
- for testing, as disabling or diverting email on a production
- machine would mean that users could miss important events (such
- as bug changes or the creation of new accounts).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- For more information, see the <quote>mail_delivery_method</quote> parameter
- in <xref linkend="parameters" />.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- On Linux, any Sendmail-compatible MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) will
- suffice. Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim are examples of common
- MTAs. Sendmail is the original Unix MTA, but the others are easier to
- configure, and therefore many people replace Sendmail with Postfix or
- Exim. They are drop-in replacements, so Bugzilla will not
- distinguish between them.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you are using Sendmail, version 8.7 or higher is required.
- If you are using a Sendmail-compatible MTA, it must be congruent with
- at least version 8.7 of Sendmail.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Consult the manual for the specific MTA you choose for detailed
- installation instructions. Each of these programs will have their own
- configuration files where you must configure certain parameters to
- ensure that the mail is delivered properly. They are implemented
- as services, and you should ensure that the MTA is in the auto-start
- list of services for the machine.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If a simple mail sent with the command-line 'mail' program
- succeeds, then Bugzilla should also be fine.
- </para>
-
- </section>
- <section id="using-mod_perl-with-bugzilla">
- <title>Installing Bugzilla on mod_perl</title>
- <para>It is now possible to run the Bugzilla software under <literal>mod_perl</literal> on
- Apache. <literal>mod_perl</literal> has some additional requirements to that of running
- Bugzilla under <literal>mod_cgi</literal> (the standard and previous way).</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla requires <literal>mod_perl</literal> to be installed, which can be
- obtained from <ulink url="http://perl.apache.org"/> - Bugzilla requires
- version &min-mod_perl2-ver; (AKA 2.0.0-RC5) to be installed.</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla also requires a more up-to-date version of the CGI
- perl module to be installed, version &min-mp-cgi-ver; as opposed to &min-cgi-ver;
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="configuration">
- <title>Configuration</title>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- Poorly-configured MySQL and Bugzilla installations have
- given attackers full access to systems in the past. Please take the
- security parts of these guidelines seriously, even for Bugzilla
- machines hidden away behind your firewall. Be certain to read
- <xref linkend="security"/> for some important security tips.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <section id="localconfig">
- <title>localconfig</title>
-
- <para>
- You should now run <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> again, this time
- without the <literal>--check-modules</literal> switch.
- </para>
- <screen><prompt>bash#</prompt> ./checksetup.pl</screen>
- <para>
- This time, <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> should tell you that all
- the correct modules are installed and will display a message about, and
- write out a file called, <filename>localconfig</filename>. This file
- contains the default settings for a number of Bugzilla parameters.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Load this file in your editor. The only value you
- <emphasis>need</emphasis> to change is $db_pass, the password for
- the user you will create for your database. Pick a strong
- password (for simplicity, it should not contain single quote
- characters) and put it here.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You may need to change the value of
- <emphasis>webservergroup</emphasis> if your web server does not
- run in the "apache" group. On Debian, for example, Apache runs in
- the "www-data" group. If you are going to run Bugzilla on a
- machine where you do not have root access (such as on a shared web
- hosting account), you will need to leave
- <emphasis>webservergroup</emphasis> empty, ignoring the warnings
- that <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> will subsequently display
- every time it is run.
- </para>
-
- <caution>
- <para>
- If you are using suexec, you should use your own primary group
- for <emphasis>webservergroup</emphasis> rather than leaving it
- empty, and see the additional directions in the suexec section
- <xref linkend="suexec" />.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <para>
- The other options in the <filename>localconfig</filename> file
- are documented by their accompanying comments. If you have a slightly
- non-standard MySQL setup, you may wish to change one or more of
- the other "$db_*" parameters.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You may also wish to change the names of
- the priorities, severities, operating systems and platforms for your
- installation. However, you can always change these after installation
- has finished; if you then re-run <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>,
- the changes will get picked up.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="database-engine">
- <title>Database Server</title>
- <para>
- This section deals with configuring your database server for use
- with Bugzilla. Currently, MySQL (<xref linkend="mysql"/>) and
- PostgreSQL (<xref linkend="postgresql"/>) are available.
- </para>
-
- <section id="database-schema">
- <title>Bugzilla Database Schema</title>
-
- <para>
- The Bugzilla database schema is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/tool/cgi/bugzilla-schema/">Ravenbrook</ulink>.
- This very valuable tool can generate a written description of
- the Bugzilla database schema for any version of Bugzilla. It
- can also generate a diff between two versions to help someone
- see what has changed.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="mysql">
- <title>MySQL</title>
-
- <caution>
- <para>
- MySQL's default configuration is very insecure.
- <xref linkend="security-mysql"/> has some good information for
- improving your installation's security.
- </para>
- </caution>
-
- <section id="install-setupdatabase">
- <title>Allow large attachments</title>
-
- <para>
- By default, MySQL will only accept packets up to 64Kb in size.
- If you want to have attachments larger than this, you will need
- to modify your <filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename> as below.
- </para>
-
- <screen> [mysqld]
- # Allow packets up to 1M
- max_allowed_packet=1M</screen>
-
- <para>
- There is also a parameter in Bugzilla called 'maxattachmentsize'
- (default = 1000 Kb) that controls the maximum allowable attachment
- size. Attachments larger than <emphasis>either</emphasis> the
- 'max_allowed_packet' or 'maxattachmentsize' value will not be
- accepted by Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- This does not affect Big Files, attachments that are stored directly
- on disk instead of in the database. Their maximum size is
- controlled using the 'maxlocalattachment' parameter.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Allow small words in full-text indexes</title>
-
- <para>By default, words must be at least four characters in length
- in order to be indexed by MySQL's full-text indexes. This causes
- a lot of Bugzilla specific words to be missed, including "cc",
- "ftp" and "uri".</para>
-
- <para>MySQL can be configured to index those words by setting the
- ft_min_word_len param to the minimum size of the words to index.
- This can be done by modifying the <filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename>
- according to the example below:</para>
-
- <screen> [mysqld]
- # Allow small words in full-text indexes
- ft_min_word_len=2</screen>
-
- <para>Rebuilding the indexes can be done based on documentation found at
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html"/>.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-setupdatabase-adduser">
- <title>Add a user to MySQL</title>
-
- <para>
- You need to add a new MySQL user for Bugzilla to use.
- (It's not safe to have Bugzilla use the MySQL root account.)
- The following instructions assume the defaults in
- <filename>localconfig</filename>; if you changed those,
- you need to modify the SQL command appropriately. You will
- need the <replaceable>$db_pass</replaceable> password you
- set in <filename>localconfig</filename> in
- <xref linkend="localconfig"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- We use an SQL <command>GRANT</command> command to create
- a <quote>bugs</quote> user. This also restricts the
- <quote>bugs</quote>user to operations within a database
- called <quote>bugs</quote>, and only allows the account
- to connect from <quote>localhost</quote>. Modify it to
- reflect your setup if you will be connecting from another
- machine or as a different user.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Run the <filename>mysql</filename> command-line client and enter:
- </para>
-
- <screen> <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> GRANT SELECT, INSERT,
- UPDATE, DELETE, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE, LOCK TABLES,
- CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, DROP, REFERENCES ON bugs.*
- TO bugs@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<replaceable>$db_pass</replaceable>';
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;</screen>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Permit attachments table to grow beyond 4GB</title>
-
- <para>
- By default, MySQL will limit the size of a table to 4GB.
- This limit is present even if the underlying filesystem
- has no such limit. To set a higher limit, follow these
- instructions.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- After you have completed the rest of the installation (or at least the
- database setup parts), you should run the <filename>MySQL</filename>
- command-line client and enter the following, replacing <literal>$bugs_db</literal>
- with your Bugzilla database name (<emphasis>bugs</emphasis> by default):
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> use <replaceable>$bugs_db</replaceable>
- <prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> ALTER TABLE attachments
- AVG_ROW_LENGTH=1000000, MAX_ROWS=20000;
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- The above command will change the limit to 20GB. Mysql will have
- to make a temporary copy of your entire table to do this. Ideally,
- you should do this when your attachments table is still small.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- This does not affect Big Files, attachments that are stored directly
- on disk instead of in the database.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="postgresql">
- <title>PostgreSQL</title>
- <section>
- <title>Add a User to PostgreSQL</title>
-
- <para>You need to add a new user to PostgreSQL for the Bugzilla
- application to use when accessing the database. The following instructions
- assume the defaults in <filename>localconfig</filename>; if you
- changed those, you need to modify the commands appropriately. You will
- need the <replaceable>$db_pass</replaceable> password you
- set in <filename>localconfig</filename> in
- <xref linkend="localconfig"/>.</para>
-
- <para>On most systems, to create the user in PostgreSQL, you will need to
- login as the root user, and then</para>
-
- <screen> <prompt>bash#</prompt> su - postgres</screen>
-
- <para>As the postgres user, you then need to create a new user: </para>
-
- <screen> <prompt>bash$</prompt> createuser -U postgres -dAP bugs</screen>
-
- <para>When asked for a password, provide the password which will be set as
- <replaceable>$db_pass</replaceable> in <filename>localconfig</filename>.
- The created user will have the ability to create databases and will not be
- able to create new users.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Configure PostgreSQL</title>
-
- <para>Now, you will need to edit <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> which is
- usually located in <filename>/var/lib/pgsql/data/</filename>. In this file,
- you will need to add a new line to it as follows:</para>
-
- <para>
- <computeroutput>host all bugs 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5</computeroutput>
- </para>
-
- <para>This means that for TCP/IP (host) connections, allow connections from
- '127.0.0.1' to 'all' databases on this server from the 'bugs' user, and use
- password authentication (md5) for that user.</para>
-
- <para>Now, you will need to restart PostgreSQL, but you will need to fully
- stop and start the server rather than just restarting due to the possibility
- of a change to <filename>postgresql.conf</filename>. After the server has
- restarted, you will need to edit <filename>localconfig</filename>, finding
- the <literal>$db_driver</literal> variable and setting it to
- <literal>Pg</literal> and changing the password in <literal>$db_pass</literal>
- to the one you picked previously, while setting up the account.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>checksetup.pl</title>
-
- <para>
- Next, rerun <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>. It reconfirms
- that all the modules are present, and notices the altered
- localconfig file, which it assumes you have edited to your
- satisfaction. It compiles the UI templates,
- connects to the database using the 'bugs'
- user you created and the password you defined, and creates the
- 'bugs' database and the tables therein.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- After that, it asks for details of an administrator account. Bugzilla
- can have multiple administrators - you can create more later - but
- it needs one to start off with.
- Enter the email address of an administrator, his or her full name,
- and a suitable Bugzilla password.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> will then finish. You may rerun
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> at any time if you wish.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="http">
- <title>Web server</title>
- <para>
- Configure your web server according to the instructions in the
- appropriate section. (If it makes a difference in your choice,
- the Bugzilla Team recommends Apache.) To check whether your web server
- is correctly configured, try to access <filename>testagent.cgi</filename>
- from your web server. If "OK" is displayed, then your configuration
- is successful. Regardless of which web server
- you are using, however, ensure that sensitive information is
- not remotely available by properly applying the access controls in
- <xref linkend="security-webserver-access"/>. You can run
- <filename>testserver.pl</filename> to check if your web server serves
- Bugzilla files as expected.
- </para>
-
- <section id="http-apache">
- <title>Bugzilla using Apache</title>
- <para>You have two options for running Bugzilla under Apache -
- <link linkend="http-apache-mod_cgi">mod_cgi</link> (the default) and
- <link linkend="http-apache-mod_perl">mod_perl</link> (new in Bugzilla
- 2.23)
- </para>
- <section id="http-apache-mod_cgi">
- <title>Apache <productname>httpd</productname> with mod_cgi</title>
-
- <para>
- To configure your Apache web server to work with Bugzilla while using
- mod_cgi, do the following:
- </para>
-
- <procedure>
- <step>
- <para>
- Load <filename>httpd.conf</filename> in your editor.
- In Fedora and Red Hat Linux, this file is found in
- <filename class="directory">/etc/httpd/conf</filename>.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- Apache uses <computeroutput>&lt;Directory&gt;</computeroutput>
- directives to permit fine-grained permission setting. Add the
- following lines to a directive that applies to the location
- of your Bugzilla installation. (If such a section does not
- exist, you'll want to add one.) In this example, Bugzilla has
- been installed at
- <filename class="directory">/var/www/html/bugzilla</filename>.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
- &lt;Directory /var/www/html/bugzilla&gt;
- AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
- Options +Indexes +ExecCGI
- DirectoryIndex index.cgi
- AllowOverride Limit
- &lt;/Directory&gt;
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- These instructions: allow apache to run .cgi files found
- within the bugzilla directory; instructs the server to look
- for a file called <filename>index.cgi</filename> if someone
- only types the directory name into the browser; and allows
- Bugzilla's <filename>.htaccess</filename> files to override
- global permissions.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- It is possible to make these changes globally, or to the
- directive controlling Bugzilla's parent directory (e.g.
- <computeroutput>&lt;Directory /var/www/html/&gt;</computeroutput>).
- Such changes would also apply to the Bugzilla directory...
- but they would also apply to many other places where they
- may or may not be appropriate. In most cases, including
- this one, it is better to be as restrictive as possible
- when granting extra access.
- </para>
- </note>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> can set tighter permissions
- on Bugzilla's files and directories if it knows what group the
- web server runs as. Find the <computeroutput>Group</computeroutput>
- line in <filename>httpd.conf</filename>, place the value found
- there in the <replaceable>$webservergroup</replaceable> variable
- in <filename>localconfig</filename>, then rerun
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- Optional: If Bugzilla does not actually reside in the webspace
- directory, but instead has been symbolically linked there, you
- will need to add the following to the
- <computeroutput>Options</computeroutput> line of the Bugzilla
- <computeroutput>&lt;Directory&gt;</computeroutput> directive
- (the same one as in the step above):
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
- +FollowSymLinks
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- Without this directive, Apache will not follow symbolic links
- to places outside its own directory structure, and you will be
- unable to run Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </step>
- </procedure>
- </section>
- <section id="http-apache-mod_perl">
- <title>Apache <productname>httpd</productname> with mod_perl</title>
-
- <para>Some configuration is required to make Bugzilla work with Apache
- and mod_perl</para>
-
- <procedure>
- <step>
- <para>
- Load <filename>httpd.conf</filename> in your editor.
- In Fedora and Red Hat Linux, this file is found in
- <filename class="directory">/etc/httpd/conf</filename>.
- </para>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>Add the following information to your httpd.conf file, substituting
- where appropriate with your own local paths.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>This should be used instead of the &lt;Directory&gt; block
- shown above. This should also be above any other <literal>mod_perl</literal>
- directives within the <filename>httpd.conf</filename> and must be specified
- in the order as below.</para>
- </note>
- <warning>
- <para>You should also ensure that you have disabled <literal>KeepAlive</literal>
- support in your Apache install when utilizing Bugzilla under mod_perl</para>
- </warning>
-
- <programlisting>
- PerlSwitches -I/var/www/html/bugzilla -I/var/www/html/bugzilla/lib -w -T
- PerlConfigRequire /var/www/html/bugzilla/mod_perl.pl
- </programlisting>
- </step>
-
- <step>
- <para>
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> can set tighter permissions
- on Bugzilla's files and directories if it knows what group the
- web server runs as. Find the <computeroutput>Group</computeroutput>
- line in <filename>httpd.conf</filename>, place the value found
- there in the <replaceable>$webservergroup</replaceable> variable
- in <filename>localconfig</filename>, then rerun
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>.
- </para>
- </step>
- </procedure>
-
- <para>On restarting Apache, Bugzilla should now be running within the
- mod_perl environment. Please ensure you have run checksetup.pl to set
- permissions before you restart Apache.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>Please bear the following points in mind when looking at using
- Bugzilla under mod_perl:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- mod_perl support in Bugzilla can take up a HUGE amount of RAM. You could be
- looking at 30MB per httpd child, easily. Basically, you just need a lot of RAM.
- The more RAM you can get, the better. mod_perl is basically trading RAM for
- speed. At least 2GB total system RAM is recommended for running Bugzilla under
- mod_perl.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Under mod_perl, you have to restart Apache if you make any manual change to
- any Bugzilla file. You can't just reload--you have to actually
- <emphasis>restart</emphasis> the server (as in make sure it stops and starts
- again). You <emphasis>can</emphasis> change localconfig and the params file
- manually, if you want, because those are re-read every time you load a page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You must run in Apache's Prefork MPM (this is the default). The Worker MPM
- may not work--we haven't tested Bugzilla's mod_perl support under threads.
- (And, in fact, we're fairly sure it <emphasis>won't</emphasis> work.)
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bugzilla generally expects to be the only mod_perl application running on
- your entire server. It may or may not work if there are other applications also
- running under mod_perl. It does try its best to play nice with other mod_perl
- applications, but it still may have conflicts.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- It is recommended that you have one Bugzilla instance running under mod_perl
- on your server. Bugzilla has not been tested with more than one instance running.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="http-iis">
- <title>Microsoft <productname>Internet Information Services</productname></title>
-
- <para>
- If you are running Bugzilla on Windows and choose to use
- Microsoft's <productname>Internet Information Services</productname>
- or <productname>Personal Web Server</productname> you will need
- to perform a number of other configuration steps as explained below.
- You may also want to refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge
- Base articles:
- <ulink url="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245225">245225</ulink>
- <quote>HOW TO: Configure and Test a PERL Script with IIS 4.0,
- 5.0, and 5.1</quote> (for <productname>Internet Information
- Services</productname>) and
- <ulink url="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;231998">231998</ulink>
- <quote>HOW TO: FP2000: How to Use Perl with Microsoft Personal Web
- Server on Windows 95/98</quote> (for <productname>Personal Web
- Server</productname>).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You will need to create a virtual directory for the Bugzilla
- install. Put the Bugzilla files in a directory that is named
- something <emphasis>other</emphasis> than what you want your
- end-users accessing. That is, if you want your users to access
- your Bugzilla installation through
- <quote>http://&lt;yourdomainname&gt;/Bugzilla</quote>, then do
- <emphasis>not</emphasis> put your Bugzilla files in a directory
- named <quote>Bugzilla</quote>. Instead, place them in a different
- location, and then use the IIS Administration tool to create a
- Virtual Directory named "Bugzilla" that acts as an alias for the
- actual location of the files. When creating that virtual directory,
- make sure you add the <quote>Execute (such as ISAPI applications or
- CGI)</quote> access permission.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You will also need to tell IIS how to handle Bugzilla's
- .cgi files. Using the IIS Administration tool again, open up
- the properties for the new virtual directory and select the
- Configuration option to access the Script Mappings. Create an
- entry mapping .cgi to:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-&lt;full path to perl.exe &gt;\perl.exe -x&lt;full path to Bugzilla&gt; -wT "%s" %s
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- For example:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -xc:\bugzilla -wT "%s" %s
- </programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- The ActiveState install may have already created an entry for
- .pl files that is limited to <quote>GET,HEAD,POST</quote>. If
- so, this mapping should be <emphasis>removed</emphasis> as
- Bugzilla's .pl files are not designed to be run via a web server.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- IIS will also need to know that the index.cgi should be treated
- as a default document. On the Documents tab page of the virtual
- directory properties, you need to add index.cgi as a default
- document type. If you wish, you may remove the other default
- document types for this particular virtual directory, since Bugzilla
- doesn't use any of them.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also, and this can't be stressed enough, make sure that files
- such as <filename>localconfig</filename> and your
- <filename class="directory">data</filename> directory are
- secured as described in <xref linkend="security-webserver-access"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-config-bugzilla">
- <title>Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>
- Your Bugzilla should now be working. Access
- <filename>http://&lt;your-bugzilla-server&gt;/</filename> -
- you should see the Bugzilla
- front page. If not, consult the Troubleshooting section,
- <xref linkend="troubleshooting"/>.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- The URL above may be incorrect if you installed Bugzilla into a
- subdirectory or used a symbolic link from your web site root to
- the Bugzilla directory.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Log in with the administrator account you defined in the last
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> run. You should go through
- the parameters on the Edit Parameters page
- (see link in the footer) and see if there are any you wish to
- change.
- They key parameters are documented in <xref linkend="parameters"/>;
- you should certainly alter
- <command>maintainer</command> and <command>urlbase</command>;
- you may also want to alter
- <command>cookiepath</command> or <command>requirelogin</command>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This would also be a good time to revisit the
- <filename>localconfig</filename> file and make sure that the
- names of the priorities, severities, platforms and operating systems
- are those you wish to use when you start creating bugs. Remember
- to rerun <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> if you change it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla has several optional features which require extra
- configuration. You can read about those in
- <xref linkend="extraconfig"/>.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="extraconfig">
- <title>Optional Additional Configuration</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla has a number of optional features. This section describes how
- to configure or enable them.
- </para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bug Graphs</title>
-
- <para>If you have installed the necessary Perl modules you
- can start collecting statistics for the nifty Bugzilla
- graphs.</para>
-
- <screen><prompt>bash#</prompt> <command>crontab -e</command></screen>
-
- <para>
- This should bring up the crontab file in your editor.
- Add a cron entry like this to run
- <filename>collectstats.pl</filename>
- daily at 5 after midnight:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>5 0 * * * cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt; ; ./collectstats.pl</programlisting>
-
- <para>
- After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs from
- the Reports page.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- When upgrading Bugzilla, this format may change.
- To create new status data, (re)move old data and run the following
- commands:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt;</command>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>./collectstats.pl --regenerate</command>
- </screen>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
- Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
- third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
- <ulink url="http://www.nncron.ru/">nncron</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="installation-whining-cron">
- <title>The Whining Cron</title>
-
- <para>What good are
- bugs if they're not annoying? To help make them more so you
- can set up Bugzilla's automatic whining system to complain at engineers
- which leave their bugs in the NEW or REOPENED state without triaging them.
- </para>
- <para>
- This can be done by adding the following command as a daily
- crontab entry, in the same manner as explained above for bug
- graphs. This example runs it at 12.55am.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>55 0 * * * cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt; ; ./whineatnews.pl</programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
- Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
- third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
- <ulink url="http://www.nncron.ru/">nncron</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="installation-whining">
- <title>Whining</title>
-
- <para>
- As of Bugzilla 2.20, users can configure Bugzilla to regularly annoy
- them at regular intervals, by having Bugzilla execute saved searches
- at certain times and emailing the results to the user. This is known
- as "Whining". The process of configuring Whining is described
- in <xref linkend="whining"/>, but for it to work a Perl script must be
- executed at regular intervals.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This can be done by adding the following command as a daily
- crontab entry, in the same manner as explained above for bug
- graphs. This example runs it every 15 minutes.
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>*/15 * * * * cd &lt;your-bugzilla-directory&gt; ; ./whine.pl</programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Whines can be executed as often as every 15 minutes, so if you specify
- longer intervals between executions of whine.pl, some users may not
- be whined at as often as they would expect. Depending on the person,
- this can either be a very Good Thing or a very Bad Thing.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
- Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
- third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
- <ulink url="http://www.nncron.ru/">nncron</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="apache-addtype">
- <title>Serving Alternate Formats with the right MIME type</title>
-
- <para>
- Some Bugzilla pages have alternate formats, other than just plain
- <acronym>HTML</acronym>. In particular, a few Bugzilla pages can
- output their contents as either <acronym>XUL</acronym> (a special
- Mozilla format, that looks like a program <acronym>GUI</acronym>)
- or <acronym>RDF</acronym> (a type of structured <acronym>XML</acronym>
- that can be read by various programs).
- </para>
- <para>
- In order for your users to see these pages correctly, Apache must
- send them with the right <acronym>MIME</acronym> type. To do this,
- add the following lines to your Apache configuration, either in the
- <computeroutput>&lt;VirtualHost&gt;</computeroutput> section for your
- Bugzilla, or in the <computeroutput>&lt;Directory&gt;</computeroutput>
- section for your Bugzilla:
- </para>
- <para>
- <screen>AddType application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml .xul
-AddType application/rdf+xml .rdf</screen>
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="multiple-bz-dbs">
- <title>Multiple Bugzilla databases with a single installation</title>
-
- <para>The previous instructions referred to a standard installation, with
- one unique Bugzilla database. However, you may want to host several
- distinct installations, without having several copies of the code. This is
- possible by using the PROJECT environment variable. When accessed,
- Bugzilla checks for the existence of this variable, and if present, uses
- its value to check for an alternative configuration file named
- <filename>localconfig.&lt;PROJECT&gt;</filename> in the same location as
- the default one (<filename>localconfig</filename>). It also checks for
- customized templates in a directory named
- <filename>&lt;PROJECT&gt;</filename> in the same location as the
- default one (<filename>template/&lt;langcode&gt;</filename>). By default
- this is <filename>template/en/default</filename> so PROJECT's templates
- would be located at <filename>template/en/PROJECT</filename>.</para>
-
- <para>To set up an alternate installation, just export PROJECT=foo before
- running <command>checksetup.pl</command> for the first time. It will
- result in a file called <filename>localconfig.foo</filename> instead of
- <filename>localconfig</filename>. Edit this file as described above, with
- reference to a new database, and re-run <command>checksetup.pl</command>
- to populate it. That's all.</para>
-
- <para>Now you have to configure the web server to pass this environment
- variable when accessed via an alternate URL, such as virtual host for
- instance. The following is an example of how you could do it in Apache,
- other Webservers may differ.
-<programlisting>
-&lt;VirtualHost 212.85.153.228:80&gt;
- ServerName foo.bar.baz
- SetEnv PROJECT foo
- Alias /bugzilla /var/www/bugzilla
-&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
-</programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>Don't forget to also export this variable before accessing Bugzilla
- by other means, such as cron tasks for instance.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-specific">
- <title>OS-Specific Installation Notes</title>
-
- <para>Many aspects of the Bugzilla installation can be affected by the
- operating system you choose to install it on. Sometimes it can be made
- easier and others more difficult. This section will attempt to help you
- understand both the difficulties of running on specific operating systems
- and the utilities available to make it easier.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you have anything to add or notes for an operating system not
- covered, please file a bug in &bzg-bugs;.
- </para>
-
- <section id="os-win32">
- <title>Microsoft Windows</title>
- <para>
- Making Bugzilla work on Windows is more difficult than making it
- work on Unix. For that reason, we still recommend doing so on a Unix
- based system such as GNU/Linux. That said, if you do want to get
- Bugzilla running on Windows, you will need to make the following
- adjustments. A detailed step-by-step
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/win32install.html">
- installation guide for Windows</ulink> is also available
- if you need more help with your installation.
- </para>
-
- <section id="win32-perl">
- <title>Win32 Perl</title>
- <para>
- Perl for Windows can be obtained from
- <ulink url="http://www.activestate.com/">ActiveState</ulink>.
- You should be able to find a compiled binary at <ulink
- url="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/" />.
- The following instructions assume that you are using version
- 5.8.1 of ActiveState.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- These instructions are for 32-bit versions of Windows. If you are
- using a 64-bit version of Windows, you will need to install 32-bit
- Perl in order to install the 32-bit modules as described below.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-perl-modules">
- <title>Perl Modules on Win32</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla on Windows requires the same perl modules found in
- <xref linkend="install-perlmodules"/>. The main difference is that
- windows uses <glossterm linkend="gloss-ppm">PPM</glossterm> instead
- of CPAN. ActiveState provides a GUI to manage Perl modules. We highly
- recommend that you use it. If you prefer to use ppm from the
- command-line, type:
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-C:\perl&gt; <command>ppm install &lt;module name&gt;</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- The best source for the Windows PPM modules needed for Bugzilla
- is probably the theory58S website, which you can add to your list
- of repositories as follows (for Perl 5.8.x):
- </para>
-
- <programlisting>
-<command>ppm repo add theory58S http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <para>
- If you are using Perl 5.10.x, you cannot use the same PPM modules as Perl
- 5.8.x as they are incompatible. In this case, you should add the following
- repository:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-<command>ppm repo add theory58S http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/</command>
- </programlisting>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- In versions prior to 5.8.8 build 819 of PPM the command is
- <programlisting>
-<command>ppm repository add theory58S http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/</command>
- </programlisting>
- </para>
- </note>
- <note>
- <para>
- The PPM repository stores modules in 'packages' that may have
- a slightly different name than the module. If retrieving these
- modules from there, you will need to pay attention to the information
- provided when you run <command>checksetup.pl</command> as it will
- tell you what package you'll need to install.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <tip>
- <para>
- If you are behind a corporate firewall, you will need to let the
- ActiveState PPM utility know how to get through it to access
- the repositories by setting the HTTP_proxy system environmental
- variable. For more information on setting that variable, see
- the ActiveState documentation.
- </para>
- </tip>
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-code-changes">
- <title>Code changes required to run on Win32</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla on Win32 is supported out of the box from version 2.20; this
- means that no code changes are required to get Bugzilla running.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-http">
- <title>Serving the web pages</title>
-
- <para>
- As is the case on Unix based systems, any web server should
- be able to handle Bugzilla; however, the Bugzilla Team still
- recommends Apache whenever asked. No matter what web server
- you choose, be sure to pay attention to the security notes
- in <xref linkend="security-webserver-access"/>. More
- information on configuring specific web servers can be found
- in <xref linkend="http"/>.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If using Apache on windows, you can set the <ulink
- url="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/core.html#scriptinterpretersource">ScriptInterpreterSource</ulink>
- directive in your Apache config to avoid having to modify
- the first line of every script to contain your path to Perl
- instead of <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. When setting
- <filename>ScriptInterpreterSource</filename>, do not forget
- to specify the <command>-T</command> flag to enable the taint
- mode. For example: <command>C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -T</command>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="win32-email">
- <title>Sending Email</title>
-
- <para>
- To enable Bugzilla to send email on Windows, the server running the
- Bugzilla code must be able to connect to, or act as, an SMTP server.
- </para>
-
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-macosx">
- <title><productname>Mac OS X</productname></title>
-
- <para>Making Bugzilla work on Mac OS X requires the following
- adjustments.</para>
-
- <section id="macosx-sendmail">
- <title>Sendmail</title>
-
- <para>In Mac OS X 10.3 and later,
- <ulink url="http://www.postfix.org/">Postfix</ulink>
- is used as the built-in email server. Postfix provides an executable
- that mimics sendmail enough to fool Bugzilla, as long as Bugzilla can
- find it.</para>
-
- <para>As of version 2.20, Bugzilla will be able to find the fake
- sendmail executable without any assistance. However, you will have
- to turn on the sendmailnow parameter before you do anything that would
- result in email being sent. For more information, see the description
- of the sendmailnow parameter in <xref linkend="parameters"/>.</para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="macosx-libraries">
- <title>Libraries &amp; Perl Modules on Mac OS X</title>
-
- <para>Apple does not include the GD library with Mac OS X. Bugzilla
- needs this for bug graphs.</para>
-
- <para>You can use DarwinPorts (<ulink url="http://darwinports.com/"/>)
- or Fink (<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/"/>), both
- of which are similar in nature to the CPAN installer, but install
- common unix programs.</para>
-
- <para>Follow the instructions for setting up DarwinPorts or Fink.
- Once you have one installed, you'll want to use it to install the
- <filename>gd2</filename> package.
- </para>
-
- <para>Fink will prompt you for a number of dependencies, type 'y' and hit
- enter to install all of the dependencies and then watch it work. You will
- then be able to use <glossterm linkend="gloss-cpan">CPAN</glossterm> to
- install the GD Perl module.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>To prevent creating conflicts with the software that Apple
- installs by default, Fink creates its own directory tree at
- <filename class="directory">/sw</filename> where it installs most of
- the software that it installs. This means your libraries and headers
- will be at <filename class="directory">/sw/lib</filename> and
- <filename class="directory">/sw/include</filename> instead of
- <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> and
- <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename>. When the
- Perl module config script asks where your <filename>libgd</filename>
- is, be sure to tell it
- <filename class="directory">/sw/lib</filename>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>Also available via DarwinPorts and Fink is
- <filename>expat</filename>. After installing the expat package, you
- will be able to install XML::Parser using CPAN. If you use fink, there
- is one caveat. Unlike recent versions of
- the GD module, XML::Parser doesn't prompt for the location of the
- required libraries. When using CPAN, you will need to use the following
- command sequence:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
-# perl -MCPAN -e'look XML::Parser' <co id="macosx-look"/>
-# perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/sw/lib EXPATINCPATH=/sw/include
-# make; make test; make install <co id="macosx-make"/>
-# exit <co id="macosx-exit"/>
- </screen>
- <calloutlist>
- <callout arearefs="macosx-look macosx-exit">
- <para>The look command will download the module and spawn a
- new shell with the extracted files as the current working directory.
- The exit command will return you to your original shell.
- </para>
- </callout>
- <callout arearefs="macosx-make">
- <para>You should watch the output from these make commands,
- especially <quote>make test</quote> as errors may prevent
- XML::Parser from functioning correctly with Bugzilla.
- </para>
- </callout>
- </calloutlist>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="os-linux">
- <title>Linux Distributions</title>
- <para>Many Linux distributions include Bugzilla and its
- dependencies in their native package management systems.
- Installing Bugzilla with root access on any Linux system
- should be as simple as finding the Bugzilla package in the
- package management application and installing it using the
- normal command syntax. Several distributions also perform
- the proper web server configuration automatically on installation.
- </para>
- <para>Please consult the documentation of your Linux
- distribution for instructions on how to install packages,
- or for specific instructions on installing Bugzilla with
- native package management tools. There is also a
- <ulink url="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Linux_Distro_Installation">
- Bugzilla Wiki Page</ulink> for distro-specific installation
- notes.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="nonroot">
- <title>UNIX (non-root) Installation Notes</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <para>If you are running a *NIX OS as non-root, either due
- to lack of access (web hosts, for example) or for security
- reasons, this will detail how to install Bugzilla on such
- a setup. It is recommended that you read through the
- <xref linkend="installation" />
- first to get an idea on the installation steps required.
- (These notes will reference to steps in that guide.)</para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>MySQL</title>
-
- <para>You may have MySQL installed as root. If you're
- setting up an account with a web host, a MySQL account
- needs to be set up for you. From there, you can create
- the bugs account, or use the account given to you.</para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>You may have problems trying to set up
- <command>GRANT</command> permissions to the database.
- If you're using a web host, chances are that you have a
- separate database which is already locked down (or one big
- database with limited/no access to the other areas), but you
- may want to ask your system administrator what the security
- settings are set to, and/or run the <command>GRANT</command>
- command for you.</para>
-
- <para>Also, you will probably not be able to change the MySQL
- root user password (for obvious reasons), so skip that
- step.</para>
- </warning>
-
- <section>
- <title>Running MySQL as Non-Root</title>
- <section>
- <title>The Custom Configuration Method</title>
- <para>Create a file .my.cnf in your
- home directory (using /home/foo in this example)
- as follows....</para>
- <programlisting>
-[mysqld]
-datadir=/home/foo/mymysql
-socket=/home/foo/mymysql/thesock
-port=8081
-
-[mysql]
-socket=/home/foo/mymysql/thesock
-port=8081
-
-[mysql.server]
-user=mysql
-basedir=/var/lib
-
-[safe_mysqld]
-err-log=/home/foo/mymysql/the.log
-pid-file=/home/foo/mymysql/the.pid
- </programlisting>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>The Custom Built Method</title>
-
- <para>You can install MySQL as a not-root, if you really need to.
- Build it with PREFIX set to <filename class="directory">/home/foo/mysql</filename>,
- or use pre-installed executables, specifying that you want
- to put all of the data files in <filename class="directory">/home/foo/mysql/data</filename>.
- If there is another MySQL server running on the system that you
- do not own, use the -P option to specify a TCP port that is not
- in use.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Starting the Server</title>
- <para>After your mysqld program is built and any .my.cnf file is
- in place, you must initialize the databases (ONCE).</para>
- <screen>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>mysql_install_db</command>
- </screen>
- <para>Then start the daemon with</para>
- <screen>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>safe_mysql &amp;</command>
- </screen>
- <para>After you start mysqld the first time, you then connect to
- it as "root" and <command>GRANT</command> permissions to other
- users. (Again, the MySQL root account has nothing to do with
- the *NIX root account.)</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>You will need to start the daemons yourself. You can either
- ask your system administrator to add them to system startup files, or
- add a crontab entry that runs a script to check on these daemons
- and restart them if needed.</para>
- </note>
-
- <warning>
- <para>Do NOT run daemons or other services on a server without first
- consulting your system administrator! Daemons use up system resources
- and running one may be in violation of your terms of service for any
- machine on which you are a user!</para>
- </warning>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Perl</title>
-
- <para>
- On the extremely rare chance that you don't have Perl on
- the machine, you will have to build the sources
- yourself. The following commands should get your system
- installed with your own personal version of Perl:
- </para>
-
- <screen>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>wget http://perl.com/CPAN/src/stable.tar.gz</command>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>tar zvxf stable.tar.gz</command>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>cd perl-5.8.1</command> (or whatever the version of Perl is called)
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/home/foo/perl</command>
- <prompt>bash$</prompt>
- <command>make &amp;&amp; make test &amp;&amp; make install</command>
- </screen>
-
- <para>
- Once you have Perl installed into a directory (probably
- in <filename class="directory">~/perl/bin</filename>), you will need to
- install the Perl Modules, described below.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="install-perlmodules-nonroot">
- <title>Perl Modules</title>
-
- <para>
- Installing the Perl modules as a non-root user is accomplished by
- running the <filename>install-module.pl</filename>
- script. For more details on this script, see
- <ulink url="api/install-module.html"><filename>install-module.pl</filename>
- documentation</ulink>
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>HTTP Server</title>
-
- <para>Ideally, this also needs to be installed as root and
- run under a special web server account. As long as
- the web server will allow the running of *.cgi files outside of a
- cgi-bin, and a way of denying web access to certain files (such as a
- .htaccess file), you should be good in this department.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Running Apache as Non-Root</title>
-
- <para>You can run Apache as a non-root user, but the port will need
- to be set to one above 1024. If you type <command>httpd -V</command>,
- you will get a list of the variables that your system copy of httpd
- uses. One of those, namely HTTPD_ROOT, tells you where that
- installation looks for its config information.</para>
-
- <para>From there, you can copy the config files to your own home
- directory to start editing. When you edit those and then use the -d
- option to override the HTTPD_ROOT compiled into the web server, you
- get control of your own customized web server.</para>
-
- <note>
- <para>You will need to start the daemons yourself. You can either
- ask your system administrator to add them to system startup files, or
- add a crontab entry that runs a script to check on these daemons
- and restart them if needed.</para>
- </note>
-
- <warning>
- <para>Do NOT run daemons or other services on a server without first
- consulting your system administrator! Daemons use up system resources
- and running one may be in violation of your terms of service for any
- machine on which you are a user!</para>
- </warning>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Bugzilla</title>
-
- <para>
- When you run <command>./checksetup.pl</command> to create
- the <filename>localconfig</filename> file, it will list the Perl
- modules it finds. If one is missing, go back and double-check the
- module installation from <xref linkend="install-perlmodules-nonroot"/>,
- then delete the <filename>localconfig</filename> file and try again.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>One option in <filename>localconfig</filename> you
- might have problems with is the web server group. If you can't
- successfully browse to the <filename>index.cgi</filename> (like
- a Forbidden error), you may have to relax your permissions,
- and blank out the web server group. Of course, this may pose
- as a security risk. Having a properly jailed shell and/or
- limited access to shell accounts may lessen the security risk,
- but use at your own risk.</para>
- </warning>
-
- <section id="suexec">
- <title>suexec or shared hosting</title>
-
- <para>If you are running on a system that uses suexec (most shared
- hosting environments do this), you will need to set the
- <emphasis>webservergroup</emphasis> value in <filename>localconfig</filename>
- to match <emphasis>your</emphasis> primary group, rather than the one
- the web server runs under. You will need to run the following
- shell commands after running <command>./checksetup.pl</command>,
- every time you run it (or modify <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>
- to do them for you via the system() command).
- <programlisting> for i in docs graphs images js skins; do find $i -type d -exec chmod o+rx {} \; ; done
- for i in jpg gif css js png html rdf xul; do find . -name \*.$i -exec chmod o+r {} \; ; done
- find . -name .htaccess -exec chmod o+r {} \;
- chmod o+x . data data/webdot</programlisting>
- Pay particular attention to the number of semicolons and dots.
- They are all important. A future version of Bugzilla will
- hopefully be able to do this for you out of the box.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
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-<section id="integration">
- <title>Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools</title>
-
- <section id="bonsai"
- xreflabel="Bonsai, the Mozilla automated CVS management system">
- <title>Bonsai</title>
-
- <para>Bonsai is a web-based tool for managing
- <xref linkend="cvs" />
-
- . Using Bonsai, administrators can control open/closed status of trees,
- query a fast relational database back-end for change, branch, and comment
- information, and view changes made since the last time the tree was
- closed. Bonsai
- also integrates with
- <xref linkend="tinderbox" />.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cvs" xreflabel="CVS, the Concurrent Versioning System">
- <title>CVS</title>
-
- <para>CVS integration is best accomplished, at this point, using the
- Bugzilla Email Gateway.</para>
-
- <para>Follow the instructions in this Guide for enabling Bugzilla e-mail
- integration. Ensure that your check-in script sends an email to your
- Bugzilla e-mail gateway with the subject of
- <quote>[Bug XXXX]</quote>,
- and you can have CVS check-in comments append to your Bugzilla bug. If
- you want to have the bug be closed automatically, you'll have to modify
- the <filename>contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl</filename> script.
- </para>
-
- <para>There is also a CVSZilla project, based upon somewhat dated
- Bugzilla code, to integrate CVS and Bugzilla through CVS' ability to
- email. Check it out at: <ulink url="http://www.cvszilla.org/"/>.
- </para>
-
- <para>Another system capable of CVS integration with Bugzilla is
- Scmbug. This system provides generic integration of Source code
- Configuration Management with Bugtracking. Check it out at: <ulink
- url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="scm"
- xreflabel="Perforce SCM (Fast Software Configuration Management System, a powerful commercial alternative to CVS">
-
- <title>Perforce SCM</title>
-
- <para>You can find the project page for Bugzilla and Teamtrack Perforce
- integration (p4dti) at:
- <ulink url="http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/"/>
-
- .
- <quote>p4dti</quote>
-
- is now an officially supported product from Perforce, and you can find
- the "Perforce Public Depot" p4dti page at
- <ulink url="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/p4dti/index.html"/>
-
- .</para>
-
- <para>Integration of Perforce with Bugzilla, once patches are applied, is
- seamless. Perforce replication information will appear below the comments
- of each bug. Be certain you have a matching set of patches for the
- Bugzilla version you are installing. p4dti is designed to support
- multiple defect trackers, and maintains its own documentation for it.
- Please consult the pages linked above for further information.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="svn"
- xreflabel="Subversion, a compelling replacement for CVS">
- <title>Subversion</title>
- <para>Subversion is a free/open-source version control system,
- designed to overcome various limitations of CVS. Integration of
- Subversion with Bugzilla is possible using Scmbug, a system
- providing generic integration of Source Code Configuration
- Management with Bugtracking. Scmbug is available at <ulink
- url="http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/"/>.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="tinderbox"
- xreflabel="Tinderbox, the Mozilla automated build management system">
- <title>Tinderbox/Tinderbox2</title>
-
- <para>Tinderbox is a continuous-build system which can integrate with
- Bugzilla - see
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tinderbox"/> for details
- of Tinderbox, and
- <ulink url="http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi"/> to see it
- in action.</para>
- </section>
-</section>
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-<chapter id="introduction">
- <title>Introduction</title>
-
- <section id="what-is-bugzilla">
- <title>What is Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla is a bug- or issue-tracking system. Bug-tracking
- systems allow individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track
- of outstanding problems with their products.
- </para>
-
- <para><emphasis>Do we need more here?</emphasis></para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="why-tracking">
- <title>Why use a bug-tracking system?</title>
-
- <para>Those who do not use a bug-tracking system tend to rely on
- shared lists, email, spreadsheets and/or Post-It notes to monitor the
- status of defects. This procedure
- is usually error-prone and tends to cause those bugs judged least
- significant by developers to be dropped or ignored.</para>
-
- <para>Integrated defect-tracking systems make sure that nothing gets
- swept under the carpet; they provide a method of creating, storing,
- arranging and processing defect reports and enhancement requests.</para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="why-bugzilla">
- <title>Why use Bugzilla?</title>
-
- <para>Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
- system. It boasts many advanced features, including:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Powerful searching</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Full change history</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Excellent attachment management</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Completely customizable and/or localizable web user
- interface</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Additional XML, email and console interfaces</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Extensive configurability</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses
- currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment
- management, chip design and development problem tracking (both
- pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for
- luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems.
- Combined with systems such as
- <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org">CVS</ulink>,
- <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/bonsai.html">Bonsai</ulink>, or
- <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com">Perforce SCM</ulink>, Bugzilla
- provides a powerful, easy-to-use configuration management solution.</para>
- </section>
-</chapter>
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-<appendix id="install-perlmodules-manual">
- <title>Manual Installation of Perl Modules</title>
-
- <section id="modules-manual-instructions">
- <title>Instructions</title>
- <para>
- If you need to install Perl modules manually, here's how it's done.
- Download the module using the link given in the next section, and then
- apply this magic incantation, as root:
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <screen><prompt>bash#</prompt> tar -xzvf &lt;module&gt;.tar.gz
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> cd &lt;module&gt;
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> perl Makefile.PL
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> make
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> make test
-<prompt>bash#</prompt> make install</screen>
- </para>
- <note>
- <para>
- In order to compile source code under Windows you will need to obtain
- a 'make' utility. The <command>nmake</command> utility provided with
- Microsoft Visual C++ may be used. As an alternative, there is a
- utility called <command>dmake</command> available from CPAN which is
- written entirely in Perl.
- </para>
- <para>
- As described in <xref linkend="modules-manual-download" />, however, most
- packages already exist and are available from ActiveState or theory58S.
- We highly recommend that you install them using the ppm GUI available with
- ActiveState and to add the theory58S repository to your list of repositories.
- </para>
- </note>
- </section>
-
- <section id="modules-manual-download">
- <title>Download Locations</title>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Running Bugzilla on Windows requires the use of ActiveState
- Perl 5.8.1 or higher. Many modules already exist in the core
- distribution of ActiveState Perl. Additional modules can be downloaded
- from <ulink url="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/" /> if you use
- Perl 5.8.x or from <ulink url="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/" />
- if you use Perl 5.10.x.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- CGI:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI.pm/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Data-Dumper:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Dumper/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Dumper/Dumper.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Date::Format (part of TimeDate):
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/TimeDate/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/TimeDate/lib/Date/Format.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- DBI:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://dbi.perl.org/docs/"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- DBD::mysql:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-mysql/lib/DBD/mysql.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- DBD::Pg:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Pg/Pg.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- File::Spec:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Spec/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Spec.html"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Template-Toolkit:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Toolkit/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs.html"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- GD:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GD/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GD/GD.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Template::Plugin::GD:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-GD/" />
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://www.template-toolkit.org/docs/aqua/Modules/index.html" />
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- MIME::Parser (part of MIME-tools):
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-tools/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-tools/lib/MIME/Parser.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="modules-manual-optional">
- <title>Optional Modules</title>
-
- <para>
- Chart::Base:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Chart/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Chart/Chart.pod"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- GD::Graph:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GDGraph/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GDGraph/Graph.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- GD::Text::Align (part of GD::Text::Util):
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GDTextUtil/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/GDTextUtil/Text/Align.pm"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- XML::Twig:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Twig/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://standards.ieee.org/resources/spasystem/twig/twig_stable.html"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- PatchReader:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/author/JKEISER/PatchReader/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://www.johnkeiser.com/mozilla/Patch_Viewer.html"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Image::Magick:
- <literallayout>
- CPAN Download Page: <ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/PerlMagick/"/>
- Documentation: <ulink url="http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resources.php"/>
- </literallayout>
- </para>
- </section>
-</appendix>
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN"> -->
-<appendix id="patches" xreflabel="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla">
- <title>Contrib</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a number of unofficial Bugzilla add-ons in the
- <filename class="directory">$BUGZILLA_ROOT/contrib/</filename>
- directory. This section documents them.
- </para>
-
- <section id="cmdline">
- <title>Command-line Search Interface</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a suite of Unix utilities for searching Bugzilla from the
- command line. They live in the
- <filename class="directory">contrib/cmdline</filename> directory.
- There are three files - <filename>query.conf</filename>,
- <filename>buglist</filename> and <filename>bugs</filename>.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- These files pre-date the templatization work done as part of the
- 2.16 release, and have not been updated.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- <filename>query.conf</filename> contains the mapping from
- options to field names and comparison types. Quoted option names
- are <quote>grepped</quote> for, so it should be easy to edit this
- file. Comments (#) have no effect; you must make sure these lines
- do not contain any quoted <quote>option</quote>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>buglist</filename> is a shell script that submits a
- Bugzilla query and writes the resulting HTML page to stdout.
- It supports both short options, (such as <quote>-Afoo</quote>
- or <quote>-Rbar</quote>) and long options (such
- as <quote>--assignedto=foo</quote> or <quote>--reporter=bar</quote>).
- If the first character of an option is not <quote>-</quote>, it is
- treated as if it were prefixed with <quote>--default=</quote>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The column list is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable.
- This is equivalent to the <quote>Change Columns</quote> option
- that is available when you list bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have
- already used Bugzilla, grep for COLUMNLIST in your cookies file
- to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>bugs</filename> is a simple shell script which calls
- <filename>buglist</filename> and extracts the
- bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix
- <quote>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=</quote>
- turns the bug list into a working link if any bugs are found.
- Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the results through
- <command>sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'</command>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Akkana Peck says she has good results piping
- <filename>buglist</filename> output through
- <command>w3m -T text/html -dump</command>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cmdline-bugmail">
- <title>Command-line 'Send Unsent Bug-mail' tool</title>
-
- <para>
- Within the <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory
- exists a utility with the descriptive (if compact) name
- of <filename>sendunsentbugmail.pl</filename>. The purpose of this
- script is, simply, to send out any bug-related mail that should
- have been sent by now, but for one reason or another has not.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To accomplish this task, <filename>sendunsentbugmail.pl</filename> uses
- the same mechanism as the <filename>sanitycheck.cgi</filename> script;
- it scans through the entire database looking for bugs with changes that
- were made more than 30 minutes ago, but where there is no record of
- anyone related to that bug having been sent mail. Having compiled a list,
- it then uses the standard rules to determine who gets mail, and sends it
- out.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As the script runs, it indicates the bug for which it is currently
- sending mail; when it has finished, it gives a numerical count of how
- many mails were sent and how many people were excluded. (Individual
- user names are not recorded or displayed.) If the script produces
- no output, that means no unsent mail was detected.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <emphasis>Usage</emphasis>: move the sendunsentbugmail.pl script
- up into the main directory, ensure it has execute permission, and run it
- from the command line (or from a cron job) with no parameters.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-</appendix>
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-<appendix id="downloadlinks">
- <title>Software Download Links</title>
-
- <para>All of these sites are current as of April, 2001. Hopefully they'll
- stay current for a while.</para>
-
- <para>Apache Web Server:
- <ulink url="http://www.apache.org/"/>
-
- Optional web server for Bugzilla, but recommended because of broad user
- base and support.</para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla:
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>MySQL:
- <ulink url="http://www.mysql.com/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>Perl:
- <ulink url="http://www.perl.org/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>CPAN:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>DBI Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBI/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>MySQL related Perl modules:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Mysql/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>TimeDate Perl module collection:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>GD Perl module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GD/"/>
-
- Alternately, you should be able to find the latest version of GD at
- <ulink url="http://www.boutell.com/gd/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>Chart::Base module:
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Chart/"/>
- </para>
-
- <para>(But remember, Bundle::Bugzilla will install all the modules for you.)
- </para>
-</appendix>
-
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-<!-- <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"> -->
-<!-- $Id: security.xml,v 1.18 2007/09/03 10:12:04 lpsolit%gmail.com Exp $ -->
-
-<chapter id="security">
-<title>Bugzilla Security</title>
-
- <para>While some of the items in this chapter are related to the operating
- system Bugzilla is running on or some of the support software required to
- run Bugzilla, it is all related to protecting your data. This is not
- intended to be a comprehensive guide to securing Linux, Apache, MySQL, or
- any other piece of software mentioned. There is no substitute for active
- administration and monitoring of a machine. The key to good security is
- actually right in the middle of the word: <emphasis>U R It</emphasis>.
- </para>
-
- <para>While programmers in general always strive to write secure code,
- accidents can and do happen. The best approach to security is to always
- assume that the program you are working with isn't 100% secure and restrict
- its access to other parts of your machine as much as possible.
- </para>
-
- <section id="security-os">
- <title>Operating System</title>
-
- <section id="security-os-ports">
- <title>TCP/IP Ports</title>
-
- <!-- TODO: Get exact number of ports -->
- <para>The TCP/IP standard defines more than 65,000 ports for sending
- and receiving traffic. Of those, Bugzilla needs exactly one to operate
- (different configurations and options may require up to 3). You should
- audit your server and make sure that you aren't listening on any ports
- you don't need to be. It's also highly recommended that the server
- Bugzilla resides on, along with any other machines you administer, be
- placed behind some kind of firewall.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-os-accounts">
- <title>System User Accounts</title>
-
- <para>Many <glossterm linkend="gloss-daemon">daemons</glossterm>, such
- as Apache's <filename>httpd</filename> or MySQL's
- <filename>mysqld</filename>, run as either <quote>root</quote> or
- <quote>nobody</quote>. This is even worse on Windows machines where the
- majority of <glossterm linkend="gloss-service">services</glossterm>
- run as <quote>SYSTEM</quote>. While running as <quote>root</quote> or
- <quote>SYSTEM</quote> introduces obvious security concerns, the
- problems introduced by running everything as <quote>nobody</quote> may
- not be so obvious. Basically, if you run every daemon as
- <quote>nobody</quote> and one of them gets compromised it can
- compromise every other daemon running as <quote>nobody</quote> on your
- machine. For this reason, it is recommended that you create a user
- account for each daemon.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>You will need to set the <option>webservergroup</option> option
- in <filename>localconfig</filename> to the group your web server runs
- as. This will allow <filename>./checksetup.pl</filename> to set file
- permissions on Unix systems so that nothing is world-writable.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-os-chroot">
- <title>The <filename>chroot</filename> Jail</title>
-
- <para>
- If your system supports it, you may wish to consider running
- Bugzilla inside of a <filename>chroot</filename> jail. This option
- provides unprecedented security by restricting anything running
- inside the jail from accessing any information outside of it. If you
- wish to use this option, please consult the documentation that came
- with your system.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
-
-
- <section id="security-mysql">
- <title>MySQL</title>
-
- <section id="security-mysql-account">
- <title>The MySQL System Account</title>
-
- <para>As mentioned in <xref linkend="security-os-accounts"/>, the MySQL
- daemon should run as a non-privileged, unique user. Be sure to consult
- the MySQL documentation or the documentation that came with your system
- for instructions.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-mysql-root">
- <title>The MySQL <quote>root</quote> and <quote>anonymous</quote> Users</title>
-
- <para>By default, MySQL comes with a <quote>root</quote> user with a
- blank password and an <quote>anonymous</quote> user, also with a blank
- password. In order to protect your data, the <quote>root</quote> user
- should be given a password and the anonymous user should be disabled.
- </para>
-
- <example id="security-mysql-account-root">
- <title>Assigning the MySQL <quote>root</quote> User a Password</title>
-
- <screen>
-<prompt>bash$</prompt> mysql mysql
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> UPDATE user SET password = password('<replaceable>new_password</replaceable>') WHERE user = 'root';
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
- </screen>
- </example>
-
- <example id="security-mysql-account-anonymous">
- <title>Disabling the MySQL <quote>anonymous</quote> User</title>
- <screen>
-<prompt>bash$</prompt> mysql -u root -p mysql <co id="security-mysql-account-anonymous-mysql"/>
-<prompt>Enter Password:</prompt> <replaceable>new_password</replaceable>
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> DELETE FROM user WHERE user = '';
-<prompt>mysql&gt;</prompt> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
- </screen>
- <calloutlist>
- <callout arearefs="security-mysql-account-anonymous-mysql">
- <para>This command assumes that you have already completed
- <xref linkend="security-mysql-account-root"/>.
- </para>
- </callout>
- </calloutlist>
- </example>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="security-mysql-network">
- <title>Network Access</title>
-
- <para>If MySQL and your web server both run on the same machine and you
- have no other reason to access MySQL remotely, then you should disable
- the network access. This, along with the suggestion in
- <xref linkend="security-os-ports"/>, will help protect your system from
- any remote vulnerabilities in MySQL.
- </para>
-
- <example id="security-mysql-network-ex">
- <title>Disabling Networking in MySQL</title>
-
- <para>Simply enter the following in <filename>/etc/my.cnf</filename>:
- <screen>
-[mysqld]
-# Prevent network access to MySQL.
-skip-networking
- </screen>
- </para>
- </example>
-
- </section>
-
-
-<!-- For possible addition in the future: How to better control the bugs user
- <section id="security-mysql-bugs">
- <title>The bugs User</title>
-
- </section>
--->
-
- </section>
-
-
-
- <section id="security-webserver">
- <title>Web server</title>
-
- <section id="security-webserver-access">
- <title>Disabling Remote Access to Bugzilla Configuration Files</title>
-
- <para>
- There are many files that are placed in the Bugzilla directory
- area that should not be accessible from the web server. Because of the way
- Bugzilla is currently layed out, the list of what should and should not
- be accessible is rather complicated. A quick way is to run
- <filename>testserver.pl</filename> to check if your web server serves
- Bugzilla files as expected. If not, you may want to follow the few
- steps below.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>Bugzilla ships with the ability to create
- <glossterm linkend="gloss-htaccess"><filename>.htaccess</filename></glossterm>
- files that enforce these rules. Instructions for enabling these
- directives in Apache can be found in <xref linkend="http-apache"/>
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>In the main Bugzilla directory, you should:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.pl</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*localconfig*</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">data</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>duplicates.rdf</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">data/webdot</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>If you use a remote webdot server:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.dot</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- only for the remote webdot server</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Otherwise, if you use a local GraphViz:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>But allow:
- <simplelist type="inline">
- <member><filename>*.png</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.gif</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.jpg</filename></member>
- <member><filename>*.map</filename></member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>And if you don't use any dot:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">Bugzilla</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>In <filename class="directory">template</filename>:</para>
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>Block everything</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
-
- <para>Be sure to test that data that should not be accessed remotely is
- properly blocked. Of particular interest is the localconfig file which
- contains your database password. Also, be aware that many editors
- create temporary and backup files in the working directory and that
- those should also not be accessible. For more information, see
- <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186383">bug 186383</ulink>
- or
- <ulink url="http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/6501">Bugtraq ID 6501</ulink>.
- To test, simply run <filename>testserver.pl</filename>, as said above.
- </para>
-
- <tip>
- <para>Be sure to check <xref linkend="http"/> for instructions
- specific to the web server you use.
- </para>
- </tip>
-
- </section>
-
-
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="security-bugzilla">
- <title>Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="security-bugzilla-charset">
- <title>Prevent users injecting malicious Javascript</title>
-
- <para>If you installed Bugzilla version 2.22 or later from scratch,
- then the <emphasis>utf8</emphasis> parameter is switched on by default.
- This makes Bugzilla explicitly set the character encoding, following
- <ulink
- url="http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html#3">a
- CERT advisory</ulink> recommending exactly this.
- The following therefore does not apply to you; just keep
- <emphasis>utf8</emphasis> turned on.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you've upgraded from an older version, then it may be possible
- for a Bugzilla user to take advantage of character set encoding
- ambiguities to inject HTML into Bugzilla comments.
- This could include malicious scripts.
- This is because due to internationalization concerns, we are unable to
- turn the <emphasis>utf8</emphasis> parameter on by default for upgraded
- installations.
- Turning it on manually will prevent this problem.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
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-<!-- $Id: troubleshooting.xml,v 1.13 2007/07/24 18:22:02 timeless%mozdev.org Exp $ -->
-
-<appendix id="troubleshooting">
-<title>Troubleshooting</title>
-
- <para>This section gives solutions to common Bugzilla installation
- problems. If none of the section headings seems to match your
- problem, read the general advice.
- </para>
-
- <section id="general-advice">
- <title>General Advice</title>
- <para>If you can't get <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> to run to
- completion, it normally explains what's wrong and how to fix it.
- If you can't work it out, or if it's being uncommunicative, post
- the errors in the
- <ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.bugzilla">mozilla.support.bugzilla</ulink>
- newsgroup.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you have made it all the way through
- <xref linkend="installation"/> (Installation) and
- <xref linkend="configuration"/> (Configuration) but accessing the Bugzilla
- URL doesn't work, the first thing to do is to check your web server error
- log. For Apache, this is often located at
- <filename>/etc/logs/httpd/error_log</filename>. The error messages
- you see may be self-explanatory enough to enable you to diagnose and
- fix the problem. If not, see below for some commonly-encountered
- errors. If that doesn't help, post the errors to the newsgroup.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla can also log all user-based errors (and many code-based errors)
- that occur, without polluting the web server's error log. To enable
- Bugzilla error logging, create a file that Bugzilla can write to, named
- <filename>errorlog</filename>, in the Bugzilla <filename>data</filename>
- directory. Errors will be logged as they occur, and will include the type
- of the error, the IP address and username (if available) of the user who
- triggered the error, and the values of all environment variables; if a
- form was being submitted, the data in the form will also be included.
- To disable error logging, delete or rename the
- <filename>errorlog</filename> file.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-testserver">
- <title>The Apache web server is not serving Bugzilla pages</title>
- <para>After you have run <command>checksetup.pl</command> twice,
- run <command>testserver.pl http://yoursite.yourdomain/yoururl</command>
- to confirm that your web server is configured properly for
- Bugzilla.
- </para>
- <programlisting>
-<prompt>bash$</prompt> ./testserver.pl http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip
-TEST-OK Webserver is running under group id in $webservergroup.
-TEST-OK Got ant picture.
-TEST-OK Webserver is executing CGIs.
-TEST-OK Webserver is preventing fetch of http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/localconfig.
-</programlisting>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-perlmodule">
- <title>I installed a Perl module, but
- <filename>checksetup.pl</filename> claims it's not installed!</title>
-
- <para>This could be caused by one of two things:</para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>You have two versions of Perl on your machine. You are installing
- modules into one, and Bugzilla is using the other. Rerun the CPAN
- commands (or manual compile) using the full path to Perl from the
- top of <filename>checksetup.pl</filename>. This will make sure you
- are installing the modules in the right place.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The permissions on your library directories are set incorrectly.
- They must, at the very least, be readable by the web server user or
- group. It is recommended that they be world readable.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-dbdSponge">
- <title>DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed</title>
-
- <para>The following error message may appear due to a bug in DBD::mysql
- (over which the Bugzilla team have no control):
- </para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ DBD::Sponge::db prepare failed: Cannot determine NUM_OF_FIELDS at D:/Perl/site/lib/DBD/mysql.pm line 248.
- SV = NULL(0x0) at 0x20fc444
- REFCNT = 1
- FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY)
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>To fix this, go to
- <filename>&lt;path-to-perl&gt;/lib/DBD/sponge.pm</filename>
- in your Perl installation and replace
- </para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ my $numFields;
- if ($attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) {
- $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
- } elsif ($attribs->{'NAME'}) {
- $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAME}};
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>with</para>
-
-<programlisting><![CDATA[ my $numFields;
- if ($attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'}) {
- $numFields = $attribs->{'NUM_OF_FIELDS'};
- } elsif ($attribs->{'NAMES'}) {
- $numFields = @{$attribs->{NAMES}};
-]]></programlisting>
-
- <para>(note the S added to NAME.)</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="paranoid-security">
- <title>cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue)</title>
-
- <para>If you are installing Bugzilla on SuSE Linux, or some other
- distributions with <quote>paranoid</quote> security options, it is
- possible that the checksetup.pl script may fail with the error:
-<programlisting><![CDATA[cannot chdir(/var/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
-]]></programlisting>
- </para>
-
- <para>This is because your <filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename>
- directory has a mode of <computeroutput>drwx------</computeroutput>.
- Type <command>chmod 755 <filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename></command>
- as root to fix this problem. This will allow any process running on your
- machine the ability to <emphasis>read</emphasis> the
- <filename>/var/spool/mqueue</filename> directory.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-relogin-everyone">
- <title>Everybody is constantly being forced to relogin</title>
-
- <para>The most-likely cause is that the <quote>cookiepath</quote> parameter
- is not set correctly in the Bugzilla configuration. You can change this (if
- you're a Bugzilla administrator) from the editparams.cgi page via the web interface.
- </para>
-
- <para>The value of the cookiepath parameter should be the actual directory
- containing your Bugzilla installation, <emphasis>as seen by the end-user's
- web browser</emphasis>. Leading and trailing slashes are mandatory. You can
- also set the cookiepath to any directory which is a parent of the Bugzilla
- directory (such as '/', the root directory). But you can't put something
- that isn't at least a partial match or it won't work. What you're actually
- doing is restricting the end-user's browser to sending the cookies back only
- to that directory.
- </para>
-
- <para>How do you know if you want your specific Bugzilla directory or the
- whole site?
- </para>
-
- <para>If you have only one Bugzilla running on the server, and you don't
- mind having other applications on the same server with it being able to see
- the cookies (you might be doing this on purpose if you have other things on
- your site that share authentication with Bugzilla), then you'll want to have
- the cookiepath set to "/", or to a sufficiently-high enough directory that
- all of the involved apps can see the cookies.
- </para>
-
- <example id="trbl-relogin-everyone-share">
- <title>Examples of urlbase/cookiepath pairs for sharing login cookies</title>
-
- <blockquote>
- <literallayout>
- urlbase is <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/"/>
- cookiepath is /
-
- urlbase is <ulink url="http://tools.mysite.tld/bugzilla/"/>
- but you have http://tools.mysite.tld/someotherapp/ which shares
- authentication with your Bugzilla
- cookiepath is /
- </literallayout>
- </blockquote>
- </example>
-
- <para>On the other hand, if you have more than one Bugzilla running on the
- server (some people do - we do on landfill) then you need to have the
- cookiepath restricted enough so that the different Bugzillas don't
- confuse their cookies with one another.
- </para>
-
-
- <example id="trbl-relogin-everyone-restrict">
- <title>Examples of urlbase/cookiepath pairs to restrict the login cookie</title>
- <blockquote>
- <literallayout>
- urlbase is <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-tip/"/>
- cookiepath is /bugzilla-tip/
-
- urlbase is <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-2.16-branch/"/>
- cookiepath is /bugzilla-2.16-branch/
- </literallayout>
- </blockquote>
- </example>
-
- <para>If you had cookiepath set to <quote>/</quote> at any point in the
- past and need to set it to something more restrictive
- (i.e. <quote>/bugzilla/</quote>), you can safely do this without
- requiring users to delete their Bugzilla-related cookies in their
- browser (this is true starting with Bugzilla 2.18 and Bugzilla 2.16.5).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-relogin-some">
- <title>Some users are constantly being forced to relogin</title>
-
- <para>First, make sure cookies are enabled in the user's browser.
- </para>
-
- <para>If that doesn't fix the problem, it may be that the user's ISP
- implements a rotating proxy server. This causes the user's effective IP
- address (the address which the Bugzilla server perceives him coming from)
- to change periodically. Since Bugzilla cookies are tied to a specific IP
- address, each time the effective address changes, the user will have to
- log in again.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you are using 2.18 (or later), there is a
- parameter called <quote>loginnetmask</quote>, which you can use to set
- the number of bits of the user's IP address to require to be matched when
- authenticating the cookies. If you set this to something less than 32,
- then the user will be given a checkbox for <quote>Restrict this login to
- my IP address</quote> on the login screen, which defaults to checked. If
- they leave the box checked, Bugzilla will behave the same as it did
- before, requiring an exact match on their IP address to remain logged in.
- If they uncheck the box, then only the left side of their IP address (up
- to the number of bits you specified in the parameter) has to match to
- remain logged in.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-index">
- <title><filename>index.cgi</filename> doesn't show up unless specified in the URL</title>
- <para>
- You probably need to set up your web server in such a way that it
- will serve the index.cgi page as an index page.
- </para>
- <para>
- If you are using Apache, you can do this by adding
- <filename>index.cgi</filename> to the end of the
- <computeroutput>DirectoryIndex</computeroutput> line
- as mentioned in <xref linkend="http-apache"/>.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="trbl-passwd-encryption">
- <title>
- checksetup.pl reports "Client does not support authentication protocol
- requested by server..."
- </title>
-
- <para>
- This error is occurring because you are using the new password
- encryption that comes with MySQL 4.1, while your
- <filename>DBD::mysql</filename> module was compiled against an
- older version of MySQL. If you recompile <filename>DBD::mysql</filename>
- against the current MySQL libraries (or just obtain a newer version
- of this module) then the error may go away.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If that does not fix the problem, or if you cannot recompile the
- existing module (e.g. you're running Windows) and/or don't want to
- replace it (e.g. you want to keep using a packaged version), then a
- workaround is available from the MySQL docs:
- <ulink url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html"/>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
-</appendix>
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-
-<chapter id="using">
- <title>Using Bugzilla</title>
-
- <section id="using-intro">
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <para>This section contains information for end-users of Bugzilla. There
- is a Bugzilla test installation, called
- <ulink url="http://landfill.bugzilla.org/">Landfill</ulink>, which you are
- welcome to play with (if it's up). However, not all of the Bugzilla
- installations there will necessarily have all Bugzilla features enabled,
- and different installations run different versions, so some things may not
- quite work as this document describes.</para>
-
- <para>
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are available and answered on
- <ulink url="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:FAQ">wiki.mozilla.org</ulink>.
- They may cover some questions you have which are left unanswered.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="myaccount">
- <title>Create a Bugzilla Account</title>
-
- <para>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 Bugzilla, use this URL:
- <ulink url="&landfillbase;"/>.
- </para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- On the home page <filename>index.cgi</filename>, click the
- <quote>Open a new Bugzilla account</quote> link, or the
- <quote>New Account</quote> link available in the footer of pages.
- Now enter your email address, then click the <quote>Send</quote>
- button.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If none of these links is available, this means that the
- administrator of the installation has disabled self-registration.
- This means that only an administrator can create accounts
- for other users. One reason could be that this installation is
- private.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Also, if only some users are allowed to create an account on
- the installation, you may see these links but your registration
- may fail if your email address doesn't match the ones accepted
- by the installation. This is another way to restrict who can
- access and edit bugs in this installation.
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Within moments, and if your registration is accepted, you should
- receive an email to the address you provided, which contains your
- login name (generally the same as the email address), and two URLs
- with a token (a random string generated by the installation) to
- confirm, respectively cancel, your registration. This is a way to
- prevent users from abusing the generation of user accounts, for
- instance by entering inexistent email addresses, or email addresses
- which do not belong to them.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- By default, you have 3 days to confirm your registration. Past this
- timeframe, the token is invalidated and the registration is
- automatically canceled. You can also cancel this registration sooner
- by using the appropriate URL in the email you got.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If you confirm your registration, Bugzilla will ask you your real name
- (optional, but recommended) and your password, which must be between
- 3 and 16 characters long.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Now all you need to do is to click the <quote>Log In</quote>
- link in the footer at the bottom of the page in your browser,
- enter your email address and password you just chose into the
- login form, and click the <quote>Log in</quote> button.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- You are now logged in. Bugzilla uses cookies to remember you are
- logged in so, unless you have cookies disabled or your IP address changes,
- you should not have to log in again during your session.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bug_page">
- <title>Anatomy of a Bug</title>
-
- <para>The core of Bugzilla is the screen which displays a particular
- bug. It's a good place to explain some Bugzilla concepts.
- <ulink
- url="&landfillbase;show_bug.cgi?id=1">
- Bug 1 on Landfill</ulink>
-
- is a good example. Note that the labels for most fields are hyperlinks;
- clicking them will take you to context-sensitive help on that
- particular field. Fields marked * may not be present on every
- installation of Bugzilla.</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Product and Component</emphasis>:
- Bugs are divided up by Product and Component, with a Product
- having one or more Components in it. For example,
- bugzilla.mozilla.org's "Bugzilla" Product is composed of several
- Components:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Administration:</emphasis>
- Administration of a Bugzilla installation.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Bugzilla-General:</emphasis>
- Anything that doesn't fit in the other components, or spans
- multiple components.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Creating/Changing Bugs:</emphasis>
- Creating, changing, and viewing bugs.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Documentation:</emphasis>
- The Bugzilla documentation, including The Bugzilla Guide.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Email:</emphasis>
- Anything to do with email sent by Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Installation:</emphasis>
- The installation process of Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Query/Buglist:</emphasis>
- Anything to do with searching for bugs and viewing the
- buglists.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Reporting/Charting:</emphasis>
- Getting reports from Bugzilla.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>User Accounts:</emphasis>
- Anything about managing a user account from the user's perspective.
- Saved queries, creating accounts, changing passwords, logging in,
- etc.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>User Interface:</emphasis>
- General issues having to do with the user interface cosmetics (not
- functionality) including cosmetic issues, HTML templates,
- etc.</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Status and Resolution:</emphasis>
-
- These define exactly what state the bug is in - from not even
- being confirmed as a bug, through to being fixed and the fix
- confirmed by Quality Assurance. The different possible values for
- Status and Resolution on your installation should be documented in the
- context-sensitive help for those items.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Assigned To:</emphasis>
- The person responsible for fixing the bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*QA Contact:</emphasis>
- The person responsible for quality assurance on this bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*URL:</emphasis>
- A URL associated with the bug, if any.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Summary:</emphasis>
- A one-sentence summary of the problem.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Status Whiteboard:</emphasis>
- (a.k.a. Whiteboard) A free-form text area for adding short notes
- and tags to a bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Keywords:</emphasis>
- The administrator can define keywords which you can use to tag and
- categorise bugs - e.g. The Mozilla Project has keywords like crash
- and regression.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Platform and OS:</emphasis>
- These indicate the computing environment where the bug was
- found.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Version:</emphasis>
- The "Version" field is usually used for versions of a product which
- have been released, and is set to indicate which versions of a
- Component have the particular problem the bug report is
- about.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Priority:</emphasis>
- The bug assignee uses this field to prioritize his or her bugs.
- It's a good idea not to change this on other people's bugs.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Severity:</emphasis>
- This indicates how severe the problem is - from blocker
- ("application unusable") to trivial ("minor cosmetic issue"). You
- can also use this field to indicate whether a bug is an enhancement
- request.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Target:</emphasis>
- (a.k.a. Target Milestone) A future version by which the bug is to
- be fixed. e.g. The Bugzilla Project's milestones for future
- Bugzilla versions are 2.18, 2.20, 3.0, etc. Milestones are not
- restricted to numbers, thought - you can use any text strings, such
- as dates.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Reporter:</emphasis>
- The person who filed the bug.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>CC list:</emphasis>
- A list of people who get mail when the bug changes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Time Tracking:</emphasis>
- This form can be used for time tracking.
- To use this feature, you have to be blessed group membership
- specified by the <quote>timetrackinggroup</quote> parameter.
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Orig. Est.:</emphasis>
- This field shows the original estimated time.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Current Est.:</emphasis>
- This field shows the current estimated time.
- This number is calculated from <quote>Hours Worked</quote>
- and <quote>Hours Left</quote>.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Hours Worked:</emphasis>
- This field shows the number of hours worked.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Hours Left:</emphasis>
- This field shows the <quote>Current Est.</quote> -
- <quote>Hours Worked</quote>.
- This value + <quote>Hours Worked</quote> will become the
- new Current Est.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>%Complete:</emphasis>
- This field shows what percentage of the task is complete.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Gain:</emphasis>
- This field shows the number of hours that the bug is ahead of the
- <quote>Orig. Est.</quote>.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Deadline:</emphasis>
- This field shows the deadline for this bug.</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Attachments:</emphasis>
- You can attach files (e.g. testcases or patches) to bugs. If there
- are any attachments, they are listed in this section. Attachments are
- normally stored in the Bugzilla database, unless they are marked as
- Big Files, which are stored directly on disk.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Dependencies:</emphasis>
- If this bug cannot be fixed unless other bugs are fixed (depends
- on), or this bug stops other bugs being fixed (blocks), their
- numbers are recorded here.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>*Votes:</emphasis>
- Whether this bug has any votes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- <emphasis>Additional Comments:</emphasis>
- You can add your two cents to the bug discussion here, if you have
- something worthwhile to say.</para>
- </listitem>
- </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
- representation 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>
-
- <para>The Bugzilla Search page is the interface where you can find
- any bug report, comment, or patch currently in the Bugzilla system. You
- can play with it here:
- <ulink url="&landfillbase;query.cgi"/>.</para>
-
- <para>The Search page has controls for selecting different possible
- values for all of the fields in a bug, as described above. For some
- fields, multiple values can be selected. In those cases, Bugzilla
- returns bugs where the content of the field matches any one of the selected
- values. If none is selected, then the field can take any value.</para>
-
- <para>
- After a search is run, you can save it as a Saved Search, which
- will appear in the page footer. If you are in the group defined
- by the "querysharegroup" parameter, you may share your queries
- with other users, see <xref linkend="savedsearches"/> for more details.
- </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 criteria.
- </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,
- additional 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 user-related field
- (such as ReportedBy) with a role-specific user (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
- refers 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>
- <para>
- Boolean charts also let you type a group name in any user-related
- field if the operator is either "equals", "notequals" or "anyexact".
- This will let you query for any member belonging (or not) to the
- specified group. The group name must be entered following the
- "%group.foo%" syntax, where "foo" is the group name.
- So if you are looking for bugs reported by any user being in the
- "editbugs" group, then you can type "%group.editbugs%".
- </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>
-
- <section id="quicksearch">
- <title>Quicksearch</title>
-
- <para>
- Quicksearch is a single-text-box query tool which uses
- metacharacters to indicate what is to be searched. For example, typing
- "<literal>foo|bar</literal>"
- into Quicksearch would search for "foo" or "bar" in the
- summary and status whiteboard of a bug; adding
- "<literal>:BazProduct</literal>" would
- search only in that product.
- You can use it to find a bug by its number or its alias, too.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You'll find the Quicksearch box in Bugzilla's footer area.
- On Bugzilla's front page, there is an additional
- <ulink url="../../page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html">Help</ulink>
- link which details how to use it.
- </para>
- </section>
- <section id="casesensitivity">
- <title>Case Sensitivity in Searches</title>
- <para>
- Bugzilla queries are case-insensitive and accent-insensitive, when
- used with either MySQL or Oracle databases. When using Bugzilla with
- PostgreSQL, however, some queries are case-sensitive. This is due to
- the way PostgreSQL handles case and accent sensitivity.
- </para>
- </section>
- <section id="list">
- <title>Bug Lists</title>
-
- <para>If you run a search, a list of matching bugs will be returned.
- </para>
-
- <para>The format of the list is configurable. For example, it can be
- sorted by clicking the column headings. Other useful features can be
- accessed using the links at the bottom of the list:
- <simplelist>
- <member>
- <emphasis>Long Format:</emphasis>
-
- this gives you a large page with a non-editable summary of the fields
- of each bug.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>XML:</emphasis>
-
- get the buglist in the XML format.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>CSV:</emphasis>
-
- get the buglist as comma-separated values, for import into e.g.
- a spreadsheet.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Feed:</emphasis>
-
- get the buglist as an Atom 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>
-
- change the bug attributes which appear in the list.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Change several bugs at once:</emphasis>
-
- If your account is sufficiently empowered, and more than one bug
- appear in the bug list, this link is displayed which lets you make
- the same change to all the bugs in the list - for example, changing
- their assignee.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Send mail to bug assignees:</emphasis>
-
- If more than one bug appear in the bug list and there are at least
- two distinct bug assignees, this links is displayed which lets you
- easily send a mail to the assignees of all bugs on the list.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Edit Search:</emphasis>
-
- If you didn't get exactly the results you were looking for, you can
- return to the Query page through this link and make small revisions
- to the query you just made so you get more accurate results.</member>
-
- <member>
- <emphasis>Remember Search As:</emphasis>
-
- You can give a search a name and remember it; a link will appear
- in your page footer giving you quick access to run it again later.
- </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. Besides the types described
- above, the following formats are also supported: ECMAScript, also known
- as JavaScript (ctype=js), and Resource Description Framework RDF/XML
- (ctype=rdf).
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="individual-buglists">
- <title>Adding/removing tags to/from bugs</title>
- <para>
- You can add and remove tags from individual bugs, which let you find and
- manage them more easily. Creating a new tag automatically generates a saved
- search - whose name is the name of the tag - which lists bugs with this tag.
- This saved search will be displayed in the footer of pages by default, as
- all other saved searches. The main difference between tags and normal saved
- searches is that saved searches, as described in the previous section, are
- stored in the form of a list of matching criteria, while the saved search
- generated by tags is a list of bug numbers. Consequently, you can easily
- edit this list by either adding or removing tags from bugs. To enable this
- feature, you have to turn on the <quote>Enable tags for bugs</quote> user
- preference, see <xref linkend="userpreferences" />. This feature is disabled
- by default.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This feature is useful when you want to keep track of several bugs, but
- for different reasons. Instead of adding yourself to the CC list of all
- these bugs and mixing all these reasons, you can now store these bugs in
- separate lists, e.g. <quote>Keep in mind</quote>, <quote>Interesting bugs</quote>,
- or <quote>Triage</quote>. One big advantage of this way to manage bugs
- is that you can easily add or remove bugs one by one, which is not
- possible to do with saved searches without having to edit the search
- criteria again.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="bugreports">
- <title>Filing Bugs</title>
-
- <section id="fillingbugs">
- <title>Reporting a New Bug</title>
-
- <para>Years of bug writing experience has been distilled for your
- reading pleasure into the
- <ulink
- url="&landfillbase;page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html">
- Bug Writing Guidelines</ulink>.
- While some of the advice is Mozilla-specific, the basic principles of
- reporting Reproducible, Specific bugs, isolating the Product you are
- using, the Version of the Product, the Component which failed, the
- Hardware Platform, and Operating System you were using at the time of
- the failure go a long way toward ensuring accurate, responsible fixes
- for the bug that bit you.</para>
-
- <para>The procedure for filing a bug is as follows:</para>
-
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Click the <quote>New</quote> link available in the footer
- of pages, or the <quote>Enter a new bug report</quote> link
- displayed on the home page of the Bugzilla installation.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- If you want to file a test bug to see how Bugzilla works,
- you can do it on one of our test installations on
- <ulink url="&landfillbase;">Landfill</ulink>.
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You first have to select the product in which you found a bug.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You now see a form where you can specify the component (part of
- the product which is affected by the bug you discovered; if you have
- no idea, just select <quote>General</quote> if such a component exists),
- the version of the program you were using, the Operating System and
- platform your program is running on and the severity of the bug (if the
- bug you found crashes the program, it's probably a major or a critical
- bug; if it's a typo somewhere, that's something pretty minor; if it's
- something you would like to see implemented, then that's an enhancement).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- You now have to give a short but descriptive summary of the bug you found.
- <quote>My program is crashing all the time</quote> is a very poor summary
- and doesn't help developers at all. Try something more meaningful or
- your bug will probably be ignored due to a lack of precision.
- The next step is to give a very detailed list of steps to reproduce
- the problem you encountered. Try to limit these steps to a minimum set
- required to reproduce the problem. This will make the life of
- developers easier, and the probability that they consider your bug in
- a reasonable timeframe will be much higher.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Try to make sure that everything in the summary is also in the first
- comment. Summaries are often updated and this will ensure your original
- information is easily accessible.
- </para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- As you file the bug, you can also attach a document (testcase, patch,
- or screenshot of the problem).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Depending on the Bugzilla installation you are using and the product in
- which you are filing the bug, you can also request developers to consider
- your bug in different ways (such as requesting review for the patch you
- just attached, requesting your bug to block the next release of the
- product, and many other product specific requests).
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Now is a good time to read your bug report again. Remove all misspellings,
- otherwise your bug may not be found by developers running queries for some
- specific words, and so your bug would not get any attention.
- Also make sure you didn't forget any important information developers
- should know in order to reproduce the problem, and make sure your
- description of the problem is explicit and clear enough.
- When you think your bug report is ready to go, the last step is to
- click the <quote>Commit</quote> button to add your report into the database.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
-
- <para>
- You do not need to put "any" or similar strings in the URL field.
- If there is no specific URL associated with the bug, leave this
- field blank.
- </para>
-
- <para>If you feel a bug you filed was incorrectly marked as a
- DUPLICATE of another, please question it in your bug, not
- the bug it was duped to. Feel free to CC the person who duped it
- if they are not already CCed.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="cloningbugs">
- <title>Clone an Existing Bug</title>
-
- <para>
- Starting with version 2.20, Bugzilla has a feature that allows you
- to clone an existing bug. The newly created bug will inherit
- most settings from the old bug. This allows you to track more
- easily similar concerns in a new bug. To use this, go to the bug
- that you want to clone, then click the <quote>Clone This Bug</quote>
- link on the bug page. This will take you to the <quote>Enter Bug</quote>
- page that is filled with the values that the old bug has.
- You can change those values and/or texts if needed.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="attachments">
- <title>Attachments</title>
-
- <para>
- You should use attachments, rather than comments, for large chunks of ASCII
- data, such as trace, debugging output files, or log files. That way, it
- doesn't bloat the bug for everyone who wants to read it, and cause people to
- receive fat, useless mails.
- </para>
-
- <para>You should make sure to trim screenshots. There's no need to show the
- whole screen if you are pointing out a single-pixel problem.
- </para>
-
- <para>Bugzilla stores and uses a Content-Type for each attachment
- (e.g. text/html). To download an attachment as a different
- Content-Type (e.g. application/xhtml+xml), you can override this
- using a 'content_type' parameter on the URL, e.g.
- <filename>&amp;content_type=text/plain</filename>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you have a really large attachment, something that does not need to
- be recorded forever (as most attachments are), or something that is too
- big for your database, you can mark your attachment as a
- <quote>Big File</quote>, assuming the administrator of the installation
- has enabled this feature. Big Files are stored directly on disk instead
- of in the database. The maximum size of a <quote>Big File</quote> is
- normally larger than the maximum size of a regular attachment. Independently
- of the storage system used, an administrator can delete these attachments
- at any time. Nevertheless, if these files are stored in the database, the
- <quote>allow_attachment_deletion</quote> parameter (which is turned off
- by default) must be enabled in order to delete them.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Also, if the administrator turned on the <quote>allow_attach_url</quote>
- parameter, you can enter the URL pointing to the attachment instead of
- uploading the attachment itself. For example, this is useful if you want to
- point to an external application, a website or a very large file. Note that
- there is no guarantee that the source file will always be available, nor
- that its content will remain unchanged.
- </para>
-
- <section id="patchviewer">
- <title>Patch Viewer</title>
-
- <para>Viewing and reviewing patches in Bugzilla is often difficult due to
- lack of context, improper format and the inherent readability issues that
- raw patches present. Patch Viewer is an enhancement to Bugzilla designed
- to fix that by offering increased context, linking to sections, and
- integrating with Bonsai, LXR and CVS.</para>
-
- <para>Patch viewer allows you to:</para>
-
- <simplelist>
- <member>View patches in color, with side-by-side view rather than trying
- to interpret the contents of the patch.</member>
- <member>See the difference between two patches.</member>
- <member>Get more context in a patch.</member>
- <member>Collapse and expand sections of a patch for easy
- reading.</member>
- <member>Link to a particular section of a patch for discussion or
- review</member>
- <member>Go to Bonsai or LXR to see more context, blame, and
- cross-references for the part of the patch you are looking at</member>
- <member>Create a rawtext unified format diff out of any patch, no
- matter what format it came from</member>
- </simplelist>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_view">
- <title>Viewing Patches in Patch Viewer</title>
- <para>The main way to view a patch in patch viewer is to click on the
- "Diff" link next to a patch in the Attachments list on a bug. You may
- also do this within the edit window by clicking the "View Attachment As
- Diff" button in the Edit Attachment screen.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_diff">
- <title>Seeing the Difference Between Two Patches</title>
- <para>To see the difference between two patches, you must first view the
- newer patch in Patch Viewer. Then select the older patch from the
- dropdown at the top of the page ("Differences between [dropdown] and
- this patch") and click the "Diff" button. This will show you what
- is new or changed in the newer patch.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_context">
- <title>Getting More Context in a Patch</title>
- <para>To get more context in a patch, you put a number in the textbox at
- the top of Patch Viewer ("Patch / File / [textbox]") and hit enter.
- This will give you that many lines of context before and after each
- change. Alternatively, you can click on the "File" link there and it
- will show each change in the full context of the file. This feature only
- works against files that were diffed using "cvs diff".</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_collapse">
- <title>Collapsing and Expanding Sections of a Patch</title>
- <para>To view only a certain set of files in a patch (for example, if a
- patch is absolutely huge and you want to only review part of it at a
- time), you can click the "(+)" and "(-)" links next to each file (to
- expand it or collapse it). If you want to collapse all files or expand
- all files, you can click the "Collapse All" and "Expand All" links at the
- top of the page.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_link">
- <title>Linking to a Section of a Patch</title>
- <para>To link to a section of a patch (for example, if you want to be
- able to give someone a URL to show them which part you are talking
- about) you simply click the "Link Here" link on the section header. The
- resulting URL can be copied and used in discussion.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_bonsai_lxr">
- <title>Going to Bonsai and LXR</title>
- <para>To go to Bonsai to get blame for the lines you are interested in,
- you can click the "Lines XX-YY" link on the section header you are
- interested in. This works even if the patch is against an old
- version of the file, since Bonsai stores all versions of the file.</para>
-
- <para>To go to LXR, you click on the filename on the file header
- (unfortunately, since LXR only does the most recent version, line
- numbers are likely to rot).</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="patchviewer_unified_diff">
- <title>Creating a Unified Diff</title>
- <para>If the patch is not in a format that you like, you can turn it
- into a unified diff format by clicking the "Raw Unified" link at the top
- of the page.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="hintsandtips">
- <title>Hints and Tips</title>
-
- <para>This section distills some Bugzilla tips and best practices
- that have been developed.</para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Autolinkification</title>
- <para>Bugzilla comments are plain text - so typing &lt;U&gt; will
- produce less-than, U, greater-than rather than underlined text.
- However, Bugzilla will automatically make hyperlinks out of certain
- sorts of text in comments. For example, the text
- "http://www.bugzilla.org" will be turned into a link:
- <ulink url="http://www.bugzilla.org"/>.
- Other strings which get linkified in the obvious manner are:
- <simplelist>
- <member>bug 12345</member>
- <member>comment 7</member>
- <member>bug 23456, comment 53</member>
- <member>attachment 4321</member>
- <member>mailto:george@example.com</member>
- <member>george@example.com</member>
- <member>ftp://ftp.mozilla.org</member>
- <member>Most other sorts of URL</member>
- </simplelist>
- </para>
-
- <para>A corollary here is that if you type a bug number in a comment,
- you should put the word "bug" before it, so it gets autolinkified
- for the convenience of others.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="commenting">
- <title>Comments</title>
-
- <para>If you are changing the fields on a bug, only comment if
- either you have something pertinent to say, or Bugzilla requires it.
- Otherwise, you may spam people unnecessarily with bug mail.
- To take an example: a user can set up their account to filter out messages
- where someone just adds themselves to the CC field of a bug
- (which happens a lot.) If you come along, add yourself to the CC field,
- and add a comment saying "Adding self to CC", then that person
- gets a pointless piece of mail they would otherwise have avoided.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Don't use sigs in comments. Signing your name ("Bill") is acceptable,
- if you do it out of habit, but full mail/news-style
- four line ASCII art creations are not.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="comment-wrapping">
- <title>Server-Side Comment Wrapping</title>
- <para>
- Bugzilla stores comments unwrapped and wraps them at display time. This
- ensures proper wrapping in all browsers. Lines beginning with the ">"
- character are assumed to be quotes, and are not wrapped.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="dependencytree">
- <title>Dependency Tree</title>
-
- <para>
- On the <quote>Dependency tree</quote> page linked from each bug
- page, you can see the dependency relationship from the bug as a
- tree structure.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You can change how much depth to show, and you can hide resolved bugs
- from this page. You can also collaps/expand dependencies for
- each bug on the tree view, using the [-]/[+] buttons that appear
- before its summary. This option is not available for terminal
- bugs in the tree (that don't have further dependencies).
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="timetracking">
- <title>Time Tracking Information</title>
-
- <para>
- Users who belong to the group specified by the <quote>timetrackinggroup</quote>
- parameter have access to time-related fields. Developers can see
- deadlines and estimated times to fix bugs, and can provide time spent
- on these bugs.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- At any time, a summary of the time spent by developers on bugs is
- accessible either from bug lists when clicking the <quote>Time Summary</quote>
- button or from individual bugs when clicking the <quote>Summarize time</quote>
- link in the time tracking table. The <filename>summarize_time.cgi</filename>
- page lets you view this information either per developer or per bug,
- and can be split on a month basis to have greater details on how time
- is spent by developers.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As soon as a bug is marked as RESOLVED, the remaining time expected
- to fix the bug is set to zero. This lets QA people set it again for
- their own usage, and it will be set to zero again when the bug will
- be marked as CLOSED.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="userpreferences">
- <title>User Preferences</title>
-
- <para>
- Once logged in, you can customize various aspects of
- Bugzilla via the "Preferences" link in the page footer.
- The preferences are split into five tabs:</para>
-
- <section id="generalpreferences" xreflabel="General Preferences">
- <title>General Preferences</title>
-
- <para>
- This tab allows you to change several default settings of Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Bugzilla's general appearance (skin) - select which skin to use.
- Bugzilla supports adding custom skins.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Quote the associated comment when you click on its reply link - sets
- the behavior of the comment "Reply" link. Options include quoting the
- full comment, just reference the comment number, or turn the link off.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Language used in email - select which language email will be sent in,
- from the list of available languages.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- After changing a bug - This controls what page is displayed after
- changes to a bug are submitted. The options include to show the bug
- just modified, to show the next bug in your list, or to do nothing.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Enable tags for bugs - turn bug tagging on or off.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Zoom textareas large when in use (requires JavaScript) - enable or
- disable the automatic expanding of text areas when text is being
- entered into them.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Field separator character for CSV files -
- Select between a comma and semi-colon for exported CSV bug lists.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Automatically add me to the CC list of bugs I change - set default
- behavior of CC list. Options include "Always", "Never", and "Only
- if I have no role on them".
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When viewing a bug, show comments in this order -
- controls the order of comments. Options include "Oldest
- to Newest", "Newest to Oldest" and "Newest to Oldest, but keep the
- bug description at the top".
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Show a quip at the top of each bug list - controls
- whether a quip will be shown on the Bug list page.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
-
- <section id="emailpreferences">
- <title>Email Preferences</title>
-
- <para>
- This tab allows you to enable or disable email notification on
- specific events.
- </para>
-
- <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>
- A Bugzilla administrator can stop a user from receiving
- bugmail by clicking the <quote>Bugmail Disabled</quote> checkbox
- when editing the user account. This is a drastic step
- best taken only for disabled accounts, as it overrides
- the user's individual mail preferences.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- There are two global options -- <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>. These 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>
- 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>
-
- <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>
-
- <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>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla has a feature called <quote>Users Watching</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>
- Each user listed in the <quote>Users watching you</quote> field
- has you listed in their <quote>Users to watch</quote> list
- and can get bugmail according to your relationship to the bug and
- their <quote>Field/recipient specific options</quote> setting.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="savedsearches" xreflabel="Saved Searches">
- <title>Saved Searches</title>
- <para>
- On this tab you can view and run any Saved Searches that you have
- created, and also any Saved Searches that other members of the group
- defined in the "querysharegroup" parameter have shared.
- Saved Searches can be added to the page footer from this screen.
- If somebody is sharing a Search with a group she or he is allowed to
- <link linkend="groups">assign users to</link>, the sharer may opt to have
- the Search show up in the footer of the group's direct members by default.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="accountpreferences" xreflabel="Name and Password">
- <title>Name and Password</title>
-
- <para>On this tab, you can change your basic account information,
- including your password, email address and real name. For security
- reasons, in order to change anything on this page you must type your
- <emphasis>current</emphasis> password into the <quote>Password</quote>
- field at the top of the page.
- If you attempt to change your email address, a confirmation
- email is sent to both the old and new addresses, with a link to use to
- confirm the change. This helps to prevent account hijacking.</para>
- </section>
-
- <section id="permissionsettings">
- <title>Permissions</title>
-
- <para>
- This is a purely informative page which outlines your current
- permissions on this installation of Bugzilla.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- A complete list of permissions is below. Only users with
- <emphasis>editusers</emphasis> privileges can change the permissions
- of other users.
- </para>
-
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- admin
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user is an Administrator.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- bz_canusewhineatothers
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can configure whine reports for other users.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- bz_canusewhines
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can configure whine reports for self.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- bz_sudoers
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can perform actions as other users.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- bz_sudo_protect
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can not be impersonated by other users.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- canconfirm
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can confirm a bug or mark it a duplicate.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- creategroups
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can create and destroy groups.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- editbugs
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can edit all bug fields.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- editclassifications
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can create, destroy, and edit classifications.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- editcomponents
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can create, destroy, and edit components.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- editkeywords
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can create, destroy, and edit keywords.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- editusers
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can edit or disable users.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term>
- tweakparams
- </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Indicates user can change Parameters.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- </variablelist>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- For more information on how permissions work in Bugzilla (i.e. who can
- change what), see <xref linkend="cust-change-permissions"/>.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- </section>
- </section>
-
-
- <section id="reporting">
- <title>Reports and Charts</title>
-
- <para>As well as the standard buglist, Bugzilla has two more ways of
- viewing sets of bugs. These are the reports (which give different
- views of the current state of the database) and charts (which plot
- the changes in particular sets of bugs over time.)</para>
-
- <section id="reports">
- <title>Reports</title>
-
- <para>
- A report is a view of the current state of the bug database.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You can run either an HTML-table-based report, or a graphical
- line/pie/bar-chart-based one. The two have different pages to
- define them, but are close cousins - once you've defined and
- viewed a report, you can switch between any of the different
- views of the data at will.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Both report types are based on the idea of defining a set of bugs
- using the standard search interface, and then choosing some
- aspect of that set to plot on the horizontal and/or vertical axes.
- You can also get a form of 3-dimensional report by choosing to have
- multiple images or tables.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- So, for example, you could use the search form to choose "all
- bugs in the WorldControl product", and then plot their severity
- against their component to see which component had had the largest
- number of bad bugs reported against it.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once you've defined your parameters and hit "Generate Report",
- you can switch between HTML, CSV, Bar, Line and Pie. (Note: Pie
- is only available if you didn't define a vertical axis, as pie
- charts don't have one.) The other controls are fairly self-explanatory;
- you can change the size of the image if you find text is overwriting
- other text, or the bars are too thin to see.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="charts">
- <title>Charts</title>
-
- <para>
- A chart is a view of the state of the bug database over time.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Bugzilla currently has two charting systems - Old Charts and New
- Charts. Old Charts have been part of Bugzilla for a long time; they
- chart each status and resolution for each product, and that's all.
- They are deprecated, and going away soon - we won't say any more
- about them.
- New Charts are the future - they allow you to chart anything you
- can define as a search.
- </para>
-
- <note>
- <para>
- Both charting forms require the administrator to set up the
- data-gathering script. If you can't see any charts, ask them whether
- they have done so.
- </para>
- </note>
-
- <para>
- An individual line on a chart is called a data set.
- All data sets are organised into categories and subcategories. The
- data sets that Bugzilla defines automatically use the Product name
- as a Category and Component names as Subcategories, but there is no
- need for you to follow that naming scheme with your own charts if
- you don't want to.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Data sets may be public or private. Everyone sees public data sets in
- the list, but only their creator sees private data sets. Only
- administrators can make data sets public.
- No two data sets, even two private ones, can have the same set of
- category, subcategory and name. So if you are creating private data
- sets, one idea is to have the Category be your username.
- </para>
-
- <section>
- <title>Creating Charts</title>
-
- <para>
- You create a chart by selecting a number of data sets from the
- list, and pressing Add To List for each. In the List Of Data Sets
- To Plot, you can define the label that data set will have in the
- chart's legend, and also ask Bugzilla to Sum a number of data sets
- (e.g. you could Sum data sets representing RESOLVED, VERIFIED and
- CLOSED in a particular product to get a data set representing all
- the resolved bugs in that product.)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you've erroneously added a data set to the list, select it
- using the checkbox and click Remove. Once you add more than one
- data set, a "Grand Total" line
- automatically appears at the bottom of the list. If you don't want
- this, simply remove it as you would remove any other line.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- You may also choose to plot only over a certain date range, and
- to cumulate the results - that is, to plot each one using the
- previous one as a baseline, so the top line gives a sum of all
- the data sets. It's easier to try than to explain :-)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once a data set is in the list, one can also perform certain
- actions on it. For example, one can edit the
- data set's parameters (name, frequency etc.) if it's one you
- created or if you are an administrator.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once you are happy, click Chart This List to see the chart.
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="charts-new-series">
- <title>Creating New Data Sets</title>
-
- <para>
- You may also create new data sets of your own. To do this,
- click the "create a new data set" link on the Create Chart page.
- This takes you to a search-like interface where you can define
- the search that Bugzilla will plot. At the bottom of the page,
- you choose the category, sub-category and name of your new
- data set.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- If you have sufficient permissions, you can make the data set public,
- and reduce the frequency of data collection to less than the default
- seven days.
- </para>
- </section>
-
- </section>
-
- </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.
- Note that marking an attachment as obsolete automatically cancels all
- pending requests for the attachment.
- </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>
-
- <para>
- You can browse through open requests made of you and by you by selecting
- 'My Requests' from the footer. You can also look at open requests limited
- by other requesters, requestees, products, components, and flag names from
- this page. Note that you can use '-' for requestee to specify flags with
- 'no requestee' set.
- </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 Searches).
- </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 Searches</title>
-
- <para>
- Each whining event is associated with zero or more searches. A search
- is any saved search to be run as part of the specified schedule (see
- above). You start out without any searches associated with the event
- (which means that the event will not run, as there will never be any
- results to return). To add a search, press the "Include search" button.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The first field to examine in your newly added search is the Sort field.
- Searches are run, and results included, in the order specified by the
- Sort field. Searches with smaller Sort values will run before searches
- with bigger 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>
-
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