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Hey hey. So, I was thinking that I'd do a regular (or semi-regular) post on the status of the Bugzilla Project, for anybody interested. This is the first one.Bugzilla 3.4We're getting pretty close to releasing Bugzilla 3.4rc1, now. There are only a ... [More] few blockers left. Mostly they're just awaiting review. I'll also need some help with the release process for Bugzilla 3.4rc1, if anybody wants to help out.The only significant changes since 3.3.4 will be a lot of bug fixes, a change to the Bug.search WebServices API, and the ability to hide the "See Also" field. The bug fixes are pretty important, though, so if you're using 3.3.4 you definitely want to update to the most recent BUGZILLA-3_4-BRANCH code regularly or update to 3.4rc1 when it comes out.There are a lot of significant changes in 3.4 compared to Bugzilla 3.2, though. Those will all be listed in the release notes for 3.4rc1. The difference between 3.2 and 3.4 is not as great as the difference between 3.0 and 3.2 though. We're working on having smaller releases more often (starting with 3.4), and it seems to be working pretty well so far.HEAD (Bugzilla 3.6)On trunk (which will be Bugzilla 3.6), we've done a fair bit. There's a JSON-RPC interface, support for suexec environments in checksetup, and a lot of HCI improvements. We've decided that for Bugzilla 3.6, our focus isn't going to be adding major new features, but fixing up the features we already have. I wrote a message to the Bugzilla Developers List about it, a week ago or so, and I got a lot of positive responses (mostly on IRC or by private email). If you're interested in helping out, feel free to check out the list of bugs we'd like to fix for Bugzilla 3.6.-Max [Less]

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed results.I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the ... [More] bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all the usability issues discovered during the research. Some of them are minor issues that now already have patches awaiting review. Some of them are larger issues that will require work over time to fix. But I am committed to seeing them all fixed as we move forward.We've fixed Bugzilla's backend pretty well, now. It's time to focus some on the front end.Anybody who wants to help, please do. Any of the bugs that block the tracking bug and are assigned to "Nobody", you are welcome to take and work on yourself.-Max [Less]

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed results.I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the ... [More] bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all the usability issues discovered during the research. Some of them are minor issues that now already have patches awaiting review. Some of them are larger issues that will require work over time to fix. But I am committed to seeing them all fixed as we move forward.We've fixed Bugzilla's backend pretty well, now. It's time to focus some on the front end.Anybody who wants to help, please do. Any of the bugs that block the tracking bug and are assigned to "Nobody", you are welcome to take and work on yourself.-Max [Less]

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed results.I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the ... [More] bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all the usability issues discovered during the research. Some of them are minor issues that now already have patches awaiting review. Some of them are larger issues that will require work over time to fix. But I am committed to seeing them all fixed as we move forward.We've fixed Bugzilla's backend pretty well, now. It's time to focus some on the front end.Anybody who wants to help, please do. Any of the bugs that block the tracking bug and are assigned to "Nobody", you are welcome to take and work on yourself.-Max [Less]

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed results.I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the ... [More] bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all the usability issues discovered during the research. Some of them are minor issues that now already have patches awaiting review. Some of them are larger issues that will require work over time to fix. But I am committed to seeing them all fixed as we move forward.We've fixed Bugzilla's backend pretty well, now. It's time to focus some on the front end.Anybody who wants to help, please do. Any of the bugs that block the tracking bug and are assigned to "Nobody", you are welcome to take and work on yourself.-Max [Less]

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed results.I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the ... [More] bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all the usability issues discovered during the research. Some of them are minor issues that now already have patches awaiting review. Some of them are larger issues that will require work over time to fix. But I am committed to seeing them all fixed as we move forward.We've fixed Bugzilla's backend pretty well, now. It's time to focus some on the front end.Anybody who wants to help, please do. Any of the bugs that block the tracking bug and are assigned to "Nobody", you are welcome to take and work on yourself.-Max [Less]

This is the first post about new features/UI improvements available in what will become Bugzilla 3.4. I realized that many readers don’t waste their time following links in articles; if a screenshot is not included in the article itself, they ignore links pointing to them. So I decided to insert as many screenshots as possible [...]

I switched to Thunderbird today and I am really loving it. So far, it's the best email client I've ever used. :-) It has so many nice things about it--but then again, if you're reading this, you probably already know that. :-)-Max

I switched to Thunderbird today and I am really loving it. So far, it's the best email client I've ever used. :-) It has so many nice things about it--but then again, if you're reading this, you probably already know that. :-)-Max

I switched to Thunderbird today and I am really loving it. So far, it's the best email client I've ever used. :-) It has so many nice things about it--but then again, if you're reading this, you probably already know that. :-)-Max