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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."
It's not irony for Bugzilla to have a bug... the irony would be if a Bugzilla bug prevented the same bug from being reported and fixed.
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web apps ever developed. Wow, it stinks.
Too bad it still looks like shit.
Aesthetics are everything for common adoptance people! When will you realize this?!
My, aren't we pedantic.
Actually, what you've described is the origin of this particular "figure of speech", but that's all that it is now and most people here understand it as simply meaning that a product has been released. The term is not being misused, it's simply grown beyond its original usage. English is full of figures of speech and if we had to carefully examine every thing we say and write to ensure that the expressions we use are exactly congruous with the original usage...well English would be pretty slow and boring as would most English speeking people.
It's not like it's a trademarked expression like "Lego" or "Elevator" or "Spam".
with these systems is that you have to guess what category to report/look-up the bug in. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone's gotten snippy with me "Why'd you report that under 'GUI'? It's obviously 'useability'".
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Bonsai, LXR and CVS.
Hrm, what about Subversion, which is the next big thing in the bug/SCM world?
(but yes, props to the Bugzilla team!)
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
I hope they have addressed the design flaws that allow spammers to harvest addresses from it with ease. There's no reason email addresses have to be displayed to everyone. For instance, I use slashdot with no problems without displaying my address.
I seem to remember them implementing some kind of kludge that munges the '@' symbol with a character entitiy. I think that is too little, too late myself.
Beware: 90% of the spam I receive comes from my mozilla bugzilla email alias. I won't be joining any more bugzilla's because of this, until it's fixed at least.
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> I've always hated bugzilla, don't know why.
Maybe you never really needed a bug-tracking system. If you try using one of
its various competitors, such as Jitterbug or Mantis, you'll understand why
Bugzilla is so popular: it's just better.
Granted, there are some improvements that would be nice, and one of them is
the ability, when it emails you notification of anything, to send an email
reply back that does something useful with the bug in question, such as
post an additional comment or change a field. Also granted, a mailing list
can be more convenient for some projects -- but a mailing list does not
work as well for getting a wider community involved. Mozilla is what it
is in large part because of the enormous amounts of feedback, test cases,
and so on that it received through Bugzilla from people who would not have
subscribed to a developer mailing list.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.