About This Guide
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to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to
pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear
war. Proceed with caution.
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versatile, stable,
and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
environment for Bugzilla.
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.
New Versions
This is the &bz-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named
to match the current version of Bugzilla.
This version of the guide, like its associated Bugzilla version, is a
development version.
The latest version of this guide can always be found at , or checked out via CVS by
following the Mozilla
CVS instructions and check out the
mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/
subtree. However, you should read the version
which came with the Bugzilla release you are using.
The Bugzilla Guide, or a section of it, is also available in
the following languages:
German.
In addition, there are Bugzilla template localisation projects in
the following languages. They may have translated documentation
available:
Belarusian,
Brazilian Portuguese,
Chinese,
French,
German,
Korean,
Russian and
Spanish.
If you would like to volunteer to translate the Guide into additional
languages, please contact
Dave Miller.
Credits
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:
Matthew P. Barnson mbarnson@sisna.com
for the Herculaean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide
and shepherding it to 2.14.
Terry Weissman terry@mozilla.org
for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon
which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
Tara Hernandez tara@tequilarists.org
for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left
mozilla.org and for running landfill.
Dave Lawrence dkl@redhat.com
for providing insight into the key differences between Red
Hat's customized Bugzilla.
Dawn Endico endico@mozilla.org
for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's
incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools
Jacob Steenhagen jake@bugzilla.org
for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development
period.
Dave Miller justdave@bugzilla.org
for taking over as project lead when Tara stepped down and
continually pushing for the documentation to be the best it can be.
Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions
to this documentation:
Kevin Brannen
Vlad Dascalu
Ben FrantzDale
Eric Hanson
Zach Lipton
Gervase Markham
Andrew Pearson
Joe Robins
Spencer Smith
Ron Teitelbaum
Shane Travis
Martin Wulffeld
.
Also, thanks are due to the members of the
netscape.public.mozilla.webtools
newsgroup. Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches,
this could never have happened.
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