Are you looking for a way to put your Bugzilla into overdrive? Catch some of the niftiest tricks here in this section.

Apache's mod_rewrite module lets you do some truly amazing things with URL rewriting. Here are a couple of examples of what you can do. Make it so if someone types http://www.foo.com/12345, Bugzilla spits back http://www.foo.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12345. Try setting up your VirtualHost section for Bugzilla with a rule like this: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)$ http://foo.bar.com/show_bug.cgi?id=$1 [L,R] ]]> There are many, many more things you can do with mod_rewrite. As time goes on, I will include many more in the Guide. For now, though, please refer to the mod_rewrite documentation at http://www.apache.org

You can use the "setperl.csh" utility to quickly and easily change the path to perl on all your Bugzilla files. This is a C-shell script; if you do not have "csh" or "tcsh" in the search path on your system, it will not work! Download the "setperl.csh" utility to your Bugzilla directory and make it executable. bash# cd /your/path/to/bugzilla bash# wget -O setperl.csh 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=10795' bash# chmod u+x setperl.csh Prepare (and fix) Bugzilla file permissions. bash# chmod u+w * bash# chmod u+x duplicates.cgi bash# chmod a-x bug_status.html Run the script: bash# ./setperl.csh /your/path/to/perl bash# ./setperl.csh /usr/bin/perl

Users can query Bugzilla from the command line using this suite of utilities. The query.conf file contains the mapping from options to field names and comparison types. Quoted option names are "grepped" 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 "option" buglist is a shell script which submits a Bugzilla query and writes the resulting HTML page to stdout. It supports both short options, (such as "-Afoo" or "-Rbar") and long options (such as "--assignedto=foo" or "--reporter=bar"). If the first character of an option is not "-", it is treated as if it were prefixed with "--default=". The columlist is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable. This is equivalent to the "Change Columns" option when you list bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have already used Bugzilla, use grep COLUMLIST ~/.netscape/cookies to see your current COLUMNLIST setting. bugs is a simple shell script which calls buglist and extracts the bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=" turns the bug list into a working link if any bugs are found. Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the results through sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}' Akkana says she has good results piping buglist output through w3m -T text/html -dump Download three files: bash$ wget -O query.conf 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26157' bash$ wget -O buglist 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26944' bash# wget -O bugs 'http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=26215' Make your utilities executable: bash$ chmod u+x buglist bugs

Quicksearch is a new, experimental feature of the 2.12 release. It consist of two Javascript files, "quicksearch.js" and "localconfig.js", and two documentation files, "quicksearch.html" and "quicksearchhack.html" The index.html page has been updated to include the QuickSearch text box. To take full advantage of the query power, the Bugzilla maintainer must edit "localconfig.js" according to the value sets used in the local installation. Currently, keywords must be hard-coded in localconfig.js. If they are not, keywords are not automatically recognized. This means, if localconfig.js is left unconfigured, that searching for a bug with the "foo" keyword will only find bugs with "foo" in the summary, status whiteboard, product or component name, but not those with the keyword "foo". Workarounds for Bugzilla users: search for '!foo' (this will find only bugs with the keyword "foo" search 'foo,!foo' (equivalent to 'foo OR keyword:foo') When this tool is ported from client-side JavaScript to server-side Perl, the requirement for hard-coding keywords can be fixed. This bug has details.

What follows are some general guidelines for changing Bugzilla, and adhering to good coding practice while doing so. We've had some checkins in the past which ruined Bugzilla installations because of disregard for these conventions. Sorry for the lack of formatting; I got this info into the Guide on the day of 2.14 release and haven't formatted it yet. The following is a guide for reviewers when checking code into Bugzilla's CVS repostory at mozilla.org. If you wish to submit patches to Bugzilla, you should follow the rules and style conventions below. Any code that does not adhere to these basic rules will not be added to Bugzilla's codebase. 1. Usage of variables in Regular Expressions It is very important that you don't use a variable in a regular expression unless that variable is supposed to contain an expression. This especially applies when using grep. You should use: grep ($_ eq $value, @array); - NOT - grep (/$value/, @array); If you need to use a non-expression variable inside of an expression, be sure to quote it properly (using \Q..\E). Coding Style for Bugzilla ------------------------- While it's true that not all of the code currently in Bugzilla adheres to this styleguide, it is something that is being worked toward. Therefore, we ask that all new code (submitted patches and new files) follow this guide as closely as possible (if you're only changing 1 or 2 lines, you don't have to reformat the entire file :). 1. Whitespace Bugzilla's prefered indentation is 4 spaces (no tabs, please). 2. Curly braces. The opening brace of a block should be on the same line as the statement that is causing the block and the closing brace should be at the same indentation level as that statement, for example: if ($var) { print "The variable is true"; } else { print "Try again"; } - NOT - if ($var) { print "The variable is true"; } else { print "Try again"; } 3. File Names File names for bugzilla code and support documention should be legal across multiple platforms. \ / : * ? " < > and | are all illegal characters for filenames on various platforms. Also, file names should not have spaces in them as they can cause confusion in CVS and other mozilla.org utilities. 4. Variable Names If a variable is scoped globally ($::variable) its name should be descriptive of what it contains. Local variables can be named a bit looser, provided the context makes their content obvious. For example, $ret could be used as a staging variable for a routine's return value as the line |return $ret;| will make it blatently obvious what the variable holds and most likely be shown on the same screen as |my $ret = "";|. 5. Cross Database Compatability Bugzilla was originally written to work with MySQL and therefore took advantage of some of its features that aren't contained in other RDBMS software. These should be avoided in all new code. Examples of these features are enums and encrypt(). 6. Cross Platform Compatability While Bugzilla was written to be used on Unix based systems (and Unix/Linux is still the only officially supported platform) there are many who desire/need to run Bugzilla on Microsoft Windows boxes. Whenever possible, we should strive not to make the lives of these people any more complicated and avoid doing things that break Bugzilla's ability to run on multiple operating systems.