Bugzilla

We had another Bugzilla meeting on IRC yesterday (channel log), and the three topics were about Bugzilla 4.0.2, 4.2rc1 and about Bugzilla 5.0. So I’m going to give you a brief summary of what has been discussed. Bugzilla 4.0.2 We still have a few blockers for 4.0.2. Due to security bugs being under investigation, we [...]

Before programming, programmers usually go to school at least till the age of 16 (and then there is also high school and university for some of them). During the secondary school, pupils all learn the order of operations in mathematics. In particular, they all learn that -4^2 = -16, because exponents always take precedence over [...]

I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it.  Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with the community just to show an example of how we were set up.  So I cleaned it up [...]

I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it.  Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with the community just to show an example of how we were set up.  So I cleaned it up … Continue reading The hardware behind bugzilla.mozilla.org

I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it.  Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with the community just to show an example of how we were set up.  So I cleaned it up … Continue reading The hardware behind bugzilla.mozilla.org

I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it.  Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with the community just to show an example of how we were set up.  So I cleaned it up … Continue reading "The hardware behind bugzilla.mozilla.org"

I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it.  Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with the community just to show an example of how we were set up.  So I cleaned it up … Continue reading The hardware behind bugzilla.mozilla.org

Since the release of Bugzilla 4.0 in mid-February, you may have noticed that I strongly reduced my involvement in the Bugzilla project. There are several reasons for this decision: I spent so much time at the end of last year and at the beginning of this one in writing and reviewing patches to fix the [...]

On http://www.debian.org/security/, I can read: « Debian takes security very seriously. We handle all security problems brought to our attention and ensure that they are corrected within a reasonable timeframe. » By default, there is no reason to not ... [More] believe them. But while talking with the administrator of Samba Bugzilla in bug 7121, I realized this was [...] [Less]

We released Bugzilla 4.0 a few minutes ago! It has many new features and improvements compared to Bugzilla 3.x, and comes almost 4 years after Bugzilla 3.0 (which was released in May 2007). With this major release, Bugzilla 3.2 reached End Of Life (EOL) and is now unsupported. Everybody running a version older than 3.4.10 [...]