[ANNOUNCEMENT] BMO Bugzilla 4.2 Upgrade Testing [UPDATE]

[David Lawrence]

For all those who have tools such as dashboards, scripts, etc. that use
the BzAPI at https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/latest/ to access ,
edit, and create BMO bugs, please take some time to test your tools
against our BMO 4.2 instance:

https://api-dev.bugzilla.mozilla.org/allizom/

The above is accessing https://bugzilla.allizom.org and will use the
same test data which is a snapshot of production. Email is disabled
for general delivery so feel free to also use the test BzAPI to make bug
changes and other write operations.

Thanks and happy testing!
BMO Team


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Greetings,

The Mozilla Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first test release of
the next version of Bugzilla based on the upstream 4.2 code base.

We are aiming to have the upgrade completed by July 23rd, 2012. Please
let us know if that date will have any negative impact on development
schedules.

For more detailed project information as well as the full schedule, see:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO/42Upgrade

Please test drive at: https://bugzilla.allizom.org

The main area of focus for our test releases are stability.
Functionality that currently works in our 4.0 code base should continue
to work as expected in the new version 4.2. Please let us know of any
customizations that are missing or not working properly.

Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
applications that use the XMLRPC/JSON API at the test server to make
sure they continue to function properly. Also a test instance of the
BzAPI is available for testing your tools that need it (bug 767583).

There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream
version 4.2. Some more notable updates include enhanced WebService
support, UI enhancements, HTML email, and search improvements. For more
detailed information on what has changed since the last upstream
release, check out the full release notes page at
http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.2/release-notes.html

Note: The code on the backend supporting search has changed
significantly from 4.0 and special attention should be given to verify
your saved searches still produce the expected results.

The database is a recent, sanitized snapshot of the live database so
should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed
properly and changeable. Being that is it sanitized, private bugs,
products, groups, etc. will not be present.

Note: Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out.
So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order of
the UI. We can however enable email delivery to specific email addresses
on request to test the new email features of Bugzilla.

We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
testing and feedback on all of the test releases to help us make this
the most robust and stable roll out as possible.

Please file any bug reports in the production Bugzilla system at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.mozilla.org&version=Development%2FStaging

Thanks, The Mozilla Bugzilla Team
https://wiki.mozilla.org/BMO