b.m.o post-upgrade notes
Myk Melez
the latest version of Bugzilla plus several enhancements. The upgrade
gave us a number of new features and some regressions.
Most of the new features are already enabled, and the rest will be
turned on in the near future. Many of the regressions have already been
fixed; I and other members of the Bugzilla community are working on the
rest of them.
Major new features include:
* email notification preferences for unconfirmed bugs
You can now turn off email notification of changes to unconfirmed bugs.
These preferences override other email notification preferences, so
f.e. if you have "added comment" notifications turned on but
"unconfirmed" notifications turned off you will *not* receive email when
comments are added to an unconfirmed bug.
These preferences are turned on by default, so you do not have to do
anything to continue to receive email about unconfirmed bugs. To turn
off this email, go to the "edit email preferences" page and uncheck the
boxes next to "The bug is in the unconfirmed state":
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
* redesigned search form
The search form has been redesigned to make it easier to use. The old
version of the form will remain the default for a month or two, after
which the new version will become the default (but the old version will
still be available). Take this time to acquaint yourself with the
redesigned form:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=modern
* bug aliases
Bug aliases are short, easy-to-remember synonyms for bug numbers that
you can use in place of those numbers when adding bugs to dependency
lists, finding bugs via the "Find" field in the Bugzilla footer, and in
other places. They are particularly useful when given to frequently
accessed bugs like meta-bugs for which remembering a name is much easier
than remembering a number.
Anyone who can edit bugs in Bugzilla can add an alias to a bug, but you
should only add aliases for bugs you reported or which are assigned to
you (or with the permission of the reporter/assignee). Once a bug has
an alias, anyone can use it to access that bug. The meta-bug tracking
post-upgrade issues, for example, has the alias "bmo-regressions".
* request tracker [not yet enabled]
The request tracker is a mechanism for tracking reviews, super-reviews,
and approvals. It allows developers to ask reviewers to review their
patches and tracks those requests from creation through fulfillment.
Once it's enabled, the Bugzilla community is going to test the request
tracker with its own review process, after which mozilla.org staff will
decide whether and how to use it in the Mozilla community.
* ability to change your email address [not yet enabled]
Once this feature is enabled, you will be able to change your Bugzilla
email address without having to ask the Bugzilla administrators to do it
for you.
* additional support for external scripts
buglist.cgi now generates results in RDF format in addition to the
default HTML, which is useful for external scripts that programmatically
search the database and parse results. Add "format=rdf" to the URL
parameters to get data in RDF format.
* lots more bug fixes and minor enhancements
I apply fixes for major regressions the moment they become available. I
will fix minor regressions en masse via a short (probably about 15
minutes) period of regularly scheduled downtime once a critical mass of
those fixes has built up (probably this week or the next).
For details on regressions and to keep track of post-upgrade issues, see
the meta-bug tracking those issues:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=bmo-regressions
-myk