The Bugzilla Guide - 2.17.5 Development Release

The Bugzilla Team

2004-01-15

This is the documentation for Bugzilla, a 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.

The most current version of this document can always be found on the Bugzilla Documentation Page.

Table of Contents

1. About This Guide

1.1. Copyright Information
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. New Versions
1.4. Credits
1.5. Document Conventions

2. Introduction

2.1. What is Bugzilla?
2.2. Why use a bug-tracking system?
2.3. Why use Bugzilla?

3. Using Bugzilla

3.1. Create a Bugzilla Account
3.2. Anatomy of a Bug
3.3. Searching for Bugs
3.4. Bug Lists
3.5. Filing Bugs
3.6. Patch Viewer
3.7. Hints and Tips
3.8. User Preferences
3.9. Reports

4. Installation

4.1. Step-by-step Install
4.2. HTTP Server Configuration
4.3. Optional Additional Configuration
4.4. OS Specific Installation Notes
4.5. Bugzilla Security
4.6. Troubleshooting

5. Administering Bugzilla

5.1. Bugzilla Configuration
5.2. User Administration
5.3. Products
5.4. Components
5.5. Versions
5.6. Milestones
5.7. Voting
5.8. Groups and Group Security
5.9. Upgrading to New Releases

6. Customising Bugzilla

6.1. Template Customization
6.2. Customizing Who Can Change What
6.3. Modifying Your Running System
6.4. MySQL Bugzilla Database Introduction
6.5. Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools

A. The Bugzilla FAQ

B. Contrib

B.1. Command-line Search Interface

C. GNU Free Documentation License

0. PREAMBLE
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
2. VERBATIM COPYING
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
4. MODIFICATIONS
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
8. TRANSLATION
9. TERMINATION
10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
How to use this License for your documents

Glossary

List of Figures
4-1. Set Max Packet Size in MySQL
4-2. Other File::Temp error messages
4-3. Patch for File::Temp in Perl 5.6.0

List of Examples
4-1. Installing perl modules with CPAN
5-1. Upgrading using CVS
5-2. Upgrading using the tarball
5-3. Upgrading using patches