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26. March 2014

(re)introducing Mark Côté, Bugzilla Assistant Project Lead

by Dave Miller (justdave)

I’ve invited Mark Côté to step up to fill the Assistant Project Lead position vacated by Simon Green two months ago. He’ll also be taking on a role as a “Community Coordinator” to try to step up efforts to make new community members feel welcome and encourage more involvement.

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16. February 2014

Git Migration Scheduled

by Mark Côté (mcote)

A migration of Bugzilla and related code from bzr.mozilla.org to git.mozilla.org will be perfomed on Tuesday, 11 March 2014, starting at 17:00 UTC.  At this time, all Bazaar branches on bzr.mozilla.org will be made read-only (aside from a few admin accounts), and the migration to git repositories on git.mozilla.org will commence.  It should take around 1.5 hours to migrate everything, after which point write access will be enabled on the git repositories for all users previously authorized on bzr.mozilla.org.  A script will periodically mirror changes from git to bzr for all currently supported Bugzilla branches (4.0, 4.2, and 4.4).  Changes will not be mirrored for any other branches of Bugzilla nor any other related branches (extensions, misc, etc.).

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27. January 2014

Release of Bugzilla 4.5.2 and 4.4.2

by Bugzilla Team

Bugzilla 4.4.2 is our latest stable release. It contains various useful bug fixes:

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25. November 2013

Bugzilla considering moving to git

by Bugzilla Team

The Bugzilla Project is currently considering moving our source code repository from Bazaar (bzr) to git.  Part of the impetus for this is that Mozilla is trying to get out of the business of hosting every version control system known to man (which they currently do, or close to it anyway) and bzr is one of the low-hanging fruit (Bugzilla is the only Mozilla project using it).  There’s also a lot of feeling out there that mirroring to GitHub may make contributions easier for new contributors. The general consensus on the thread so far is that we should do it; the main point of contention is how long to keep it mirrored in bzr after it moves.

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16. October 2013

Release of Bugzilla 4.5.1, 4.4.1, 4.2.7, and 4.0.11

by Bugzilla Team

Today we have several new releases for you!

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12. July 2013

Bugzilla Project Meeting Wednesday, July 17th, at 14:00 UTC

by Dave Miller (justdave)

Much of this post is taken from a message I posted to the developers list a few days ago, so my apologies in advance to anyone reading it again. I’ve expanded on a few things and added the information about the upcoming meeting, so it’s probably worth re-reading.

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22. May 2013

Release of Bugzilla 4.4 and 4.2.6

by Bugzilla Team

Today the Bugzilla Project is extremely proud to announce the release of Bugzilla 4.4!

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19. February 2013

Release of Bugzilla 4.4rc2, 4.2.5, 4.0.10, and 3.6.13

by Bugzilla Team

Today we have several new releases for you!

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06. December 2012

Upgrading your Bugzilla? Don't forget to Sanity Check first.

by Bugzilla Team

When planning on upgrading your Bugzilla to a newer version, it’s always a good idea to read the release notes in case of special instructions that need to be done to handle certain situations in upgrades.  Our checksetup.pl script has gotten pretty good at handling a lot of situations automatically for you these days, but nothing is ever perfect.

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13. November 2012

Release of Bugzilla 4.4rc1, 4.2.4, 4.0.9, and 3.6.12

by Bugzilla Team

Today we have several new releases for you!

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