Bugzilla 2.18 Goes Gold

bugger writes "After almost three years of development, the Bugzilla project has released long-waited Bugzilla 2.18. It contains many new features, a huge number of bug fixes, some security updates, and more. It is also the first Bugzilla version to run unmodified on Windows. In parallel, security release 2.16.8 and a new development snapshot 2.19.2 have been announced."

Comments

bugzilla.mozilla.org is up to date

[digitalgimpus]

For those who participate with mozilla's bugzilla installation for reporting bugs, that has been the test site for some time.

So you have had most of those features for quite some time.

Re:bugzilla.mozilla.org is up to date

[Myen]

Err, I thought the test site had been landfill.bugzilla.org?

So as to avoid, you know, totally screwing with the Mozilla (+ bugzilla, etc.) bug database if stuff breaks? Granted, Mozilla does use really up-to-date installations of bugzilla...

In fact, b.m.o seems to be on 2.19+ now (according to the banner up top)...

[NB I'm just an interested bystander]

Uh... What is Bugzilla?

[sanityspeech]

Taken from the about page:

Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack. Consequently, Bugzilla has quickly become a favorite of hundreds of organizations across the globe.

Re:Uh... What is Bugzilla?

[Anonymous Coward]

have you written up a list of complaints or suggestions?

i'm not sure how unusable https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=spec ific is. but i'm certainly interested in finding out. please provide feedback via standard channels:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug. cgi?product =Bugzilla&component=Query/Bug%20List
news://news. mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.we btools
irc://irc.mozilla.org/mozwebtools

please don't misuse the term "goes gold"

[JoeBuck]

This term originated in the games industry, meaning that when the game was ready to be shipped, a master CD has been pressed and delivered to the publisher for production. The gold CD is used to stamp out the CDs that are actually shipped. It means that the final version of the game has been made, but you can't buy it yet because it still has to be shipped.

The bugzilla guys aren't doing anything like this; it's free software after all, and you can get it today; "goes gold" means you can't get it yet, you still have to wait for the production ramp-up.

Patch viewing!

[ZiZ]

This is a marvelous new feature. From TFA:

Patch Viewer
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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.

Now instead of just being able to see what's already changed, you can see what a proposed patch will change, where it will change it, and what the code nearby the patch is. It may seem like a small thing in any individual case, but this will likely save huge amounts of developer time.

Props to the Bugzilla team! They've always had a fantastic product, and this release looks like more and better.

Re:Easy way to make use of this soft without root?

[wizbit]

It's mentioned in the docs - root access is not a requirement unless you want to create, say, a virtual host to run it from (like bugs.mysite.com instead of mysite.com/~username/bugs) or need to install additional perl packages. That is really the most difficult part of the setup. The files can reside anywhere and will be served up provided you have perl set up as the interpreter for .cgi files and have the proper perl packages, as well as a mysql database (not necessarily root on the db server). It may require some intervention from the sys admin, but you by no means have to be one. You can even substitute IIS if you want to. Most of the hurdles are cosmetic ones.

Re:Does Bugzilla support PostgreSQL?

[Anonymous Coward]

Redhat uses Postgres with their Bugzilla installation, and there is a thread about Postgres compatibility on the Mozilla bugtracker here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304

Re:Can bugzilla see different products per login?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.
As an administrator under Users->Select User->Edit User->Group Access

Re:Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

wikipedia also uses MySQL, though the latest version of Mediawiki supports Postgres

Re:is bugzilla "good enought"?

[jjohnson]

1) Bugs should not have owners. This is th approach taken by Joel (thy joelonsoftware.com guy) when creating Fozbug.

You have this exactly wrong. From here:

"...every bug needs to be assigned to exactly one person at all times, until it is closed."

Re:Wow...

[rsax]

I don't know if you are aware that there is a PostgreSQL-aware version of Bugzilla available. Red Hat is pretty big on PostgreSQL so they maintain that version. The link leads you to a bugzilla-redhat-20031120.tar.gz tarball but there are testing a new beta based on bugzilla 2.18rc3. Check it out.

Re:spammer's paradise

[AaronLawrence]

Yes, they have changed it... though I haven't seen it in action yet.

Email Address Munging
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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.