The Bugzilla Guide - 2.17.7 Development Release

The Bugzilla Team

2004-01-24

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. Installing Bugzilla

2.1. Installation
2.2. Configuration
2.3. Optional Additional Configuration
2.4. OS-Specific Installation Notes
2.5. Troubleshooting

3. Administering Bugzilla

3.1. Bugzilla Configuration
3.2. User Administration
3.3. Products
3.4. Components
3.5. Versions
3.6. Milestones
3.7. Voting
3.8. Groups and Group Security
3.9. Upgrading to New Releases

4. Customising Bugzilla

4.1. Template Customization
4.2. Template Hooks
4.3. Customizing Who Can Change What
4.4. Modifying Your Running System
4.5. MySQL Bugzilla Database Introduction
4.6. Integrating Bugzilla with Third-Party Tools

5. Using Bugzilla

5.1. Introduction
5.2. Create a Bugzilla Account
5.3. Anatomy of a Bug
5.4. Searching for Bugs
5.5. Bug Lists
5.6. Filing Bugs
5.7. Patch Viewer
5.8. Hints and Tips
5.9. User Preferences
5.10. Reports

A. The Bugzilla FAQ

B. Contrib

B.1. Command-line Search Interface

C. Manual Installation of Perl Modules

C.1. Instructions
C.2. Download Locations

D. GNU Free Documentation License

0. Preamble
1. Applicability and Definition
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 Examples
3-1. Upgrading using CVS
3-2. Upgrading using the tarball
3-3. Upgrading using patches