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How do you create change logs for your projects?

Hi, I am using subversion as an RCS and Bugzilla for issue tracking. And i just ask myself how to create automatic change logs for the users? I already tried the "svn2cl" tool. But the change logs it creates are to technical for me (e.g. no user want's to know that developer XY changed 20 files yesterday to fix a memory leak). A user w...

Is there any way to do JIRA-Dashboard style project management/overview with Bugzilla?

I need roadmap view, overall bug graphs, multiple pieces of information on one screen - can this work with Bugzilla? Eclipse-based plugins etc are usable... but solutions like yoxel that need access to the Bugzilla SQL DB itself are probably not workable. Thanks ...

How do I enable my custom format for enter_bug.cgi?

I have followed the instructions in the Bugzilla manual and have created and tested my own custom format for enter_bug.cgi. I have tested by manually entering "format=xxx" in the URL. Now I am ready to roll this out for the other users. What is the right way to enable my custom format as the default? I have come up with a few solutio...

Is there a java api to access bugzilla?

Is there a (standalone!) java api which wraps the XML-RPC interface to bugzilla? I don't want to program my own api for it, and I can't actually find a library which does this (and only this). Update: I'm looking for something like this http://oss.dbc.dk/bugzproxy/ only written in Java ...

Eclipse MyLyn with BugZilla: Will the BugZilla installation need to be modified/configured?

Hi, I'm interested in MyLyn. I'm using Eclipse Ganymede and I have access to a BugZilla installation for the project I'm working on. I wonder if the BugZilla installation will have to be changed/configured in any way or if I'm able to use MyLyn against it "out of the box"? Will I have to setup some special kind of MyLyn server or could...

How to compartmentalise an outward-facing Bugzilla?

We're an ISV with ~65 customers. When they call with a support issue, we log it in our internal Bugzilla instance (there is a handful of specially trained super-users at each customer site from whom we allow calls). We're considering making this Bugzilla instance available via the Internet so that customers can log their own issues and ...

How does a Bugzilla server work?

We have bugzilla installed on a computer which we would like to act as a server. I have yet to install bugzilla on my computer, the client. Can you point me to some references which describes how Bugzilla works as a server? What I would like to do is file bugs from client computers and this will be reflected to the Bugzilla server. How d...

Bugzilla Reporting

Is there a really good free tool for BugZilla reporting? I am finding the default search options on the web interface far too limiting. My biggest issue is with the lack of Order By options (only 1 field at a time, and a very limited set of fields to choose from). I have done some Google searches, but I can't find any good free BugZil...

How will the client access the Bugzilla server?

I have just installed Bugzilla on my laptop and I will be the Bugzilla server. I would like to know how my team mates will be able to access the Bugzilla server? I know that Apache is the web server but can you point me to a reference on how clients can access the server? Thank you. ...

Do we have to buy a domain to serve Bugzilla?

I tried putting my IP from whatismyip.com in the urlbase of Bugzilla but it did not work. I wasn't able to create a new account for my team mate, and he wasnt able to access the server by typing the my ip address in his browse. And surely, when I connect again, my IP address will change. Do we have to buy a www address to host Bugzilla? ...

How should I implement User Stories in Bugzilla?

A few individuals at my work have come together to form a group whose goal is to analyze the benefits of implementing some Agile software development / project management principles. As a developer, I see great benefit in User Stories. We're looking to put together an information radiator that can be used for monitoring stages of the c...

Converting table from MyISAM to INNODB

I am simply trying to convert a table from MyISAM to INNODB. This is for a bugzilla upgrade with testopia. This simple command fails. ALTER TABLE table_name TYPE = INNODB; ERROR 1214 (HY000): The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes I know it does not support FULLTEXT indexes, never the less I want it to convert. Would I h...

When my software has a new version, how can Bugzilla know that I am now working on a newer version?

I am using Bugzilla and SVN. Right now, the project version in Bugzilla is version 1.0. What if I decide to create a tag in SVN, for version 2.0. How can I notify Bugzilla that I would now be working on version 2.0? Do I simply edit the version number of the project in Bugzilla? Buut what if a user would like to file a bug for version 1....

How to view date bug was closed in Bugzilla?

We're using bugzilla and I would like to add a column to a list view to see the last timestamp when the bug's state was set to resolved or closed. Is this possible and if so, how? If not, what's the closest I can have to this? Using Bugzilla v3.2.3. ...

Open-Source bugs tracking system?

Possible Duplicate: What bug tracking software do you use? Better than BugZilla open-source based bugs tracking system? I need a platform that supports a rich API (especially for PHP), unlike what BugZilla provides. :S ...

How do you handle related bugs in Bugzilla?

Within our environment we have a core codebase, and several client-specific implementations of that codebase. When a client raises an issue, we need to determine whether it is a client specific issue, or whether it is a core codebase issue. We use bugzilla to track our bugs, and we have a bugzilla product for the core codebase, and a...

Mantis to Bugzilla migration?

Hi all! So we have this project which uses Mantis as bug tracker tool and in the company the corporate bug tracking tool is Bugzilla. This means we will have to use Bugzilla soon. I searched for tools that can be used to migrate from Mantis to Bugzilla and I only found this m2bz tool which seems to work for Mantis 0.17.5 and Bugzilla 2...

Trac to Bugzilla Migration?

Any tips, scripts, or other artifacts that will make importing data from a Trac instance into a Bugzilla instance less work? We have a modified Bugzilla, so it's likely that importxml.cgi won't be a good choice. Even if that were available, then the problem becomes "how to map Trac data to Bugzilla data." As icky as it might be, I thi...

How do I sort an array of hash references by one of the hash values?

First, please pardon my rusty Perl. I'm trying to modify Bugzilla's "whine.pl" to generate lists of bugs sorted by severity. So it gives me an array of hash references. Each hash contains a bunch of information about a particular bug (id, assignee, severity, etc). I want to sort the array by severity. What's the best way to do this? I'...

Bugzilla Error : "Cannot determine local timezone"

Hi Everyone, After I installed Bugzilla on my LAN it works great... the problem is when I try to commit a bug it gives me an internal error "cannot determine local time zone" I have searched far and wide on google and looks like a pretty wide spread problem on Ubuntu and debian boxes. Please help.... I changed my server time zone, c...