Please test bugzilla web interface

Daniel Berlin dberlin@dberlin.org
Wed Feb 26 09:40:00 GMT 2003


The GCC bugzilla web interface is up and running at 
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla.

Please test it out.
Things not expected to be right/working quite yet:
1. The charts generated using the "Change over time option".  I haven't 
been running the stats collector in a cron job yet, so it has no data 
to use here (it would be incredibly slow of a query to do it on the 
fly, so it collects stats once a day that it uses to generate the 
chart).  Reports (including charts) generated using the *other* report 
options should work.  I've successfully charted bugs per component per 
version, for instance.
2. The exact gcc version string from the original gnats report doesn't 
appear in the comments yet. I'm working on this.


If you've used gnats, or submitted a gnats report, or followed up to a 
gnats report, you've got a bugzilla account, you just don't know the 
password.
Tell it you forgot your password, and it'll let you change it.


Please realize the following things:

1. All user preferences and passwords are wiped when i do a database 
update from GNATS (obviously, this stops happening once the final 
database update happens when we cut completely over to bugzilla).  I 
can't avoid this, since the set of users in the gnats reports changes 
as more reports are added, and thus, the bugzilla user_id's end up 
changing.
2. I'll attempt to keep any keywords added or removed, flags added or 
removed, etc.
3. *@gcc.gnu.org accounts have access to confirm bugs, 
added/remove/edit keywords, and edit any aspect of a bug report.  Other 
people are read-only (except for new bug submission, obviously).
4. The site is live, and if you make a change to a bug, it *will* send 
out email to the interested parties. I've tested this, and it does send 
it out.  Just a heads up.
5. Any bugs or problems should be reported to me, not to gnats or gcc-* 
(don't want to clutter up the mailing lists with bugzilla problems).
6. If something annoys you or you don't like the way something is, feel 
free to ask if it is easily changed.  More likely than not, it is.  
There are plenty of things i left at defaults because I never realized 
anyone had a preference. :).  Obviously, i'm trying to avoid adding 
more than a minimal amount of code to bugzilla itself, to make upgrades 
easier, so if it's something that would require massive hacking, i'll 
probably just say no.
To give an example, almost all the web pages (and email messages for 
that matter) are generated by templates, so if you don't like the way 
something looks, it's pretty simple to change.  Heck, it doesn't even 
have to be the default if it's something only a few people like.  One 
can get it to use a different template by appending a slightly 
different string to the url, so it's not really a problem.

For instance, if you append &ctype=rdf to a bugzilla query url, it'll 
produce rdf output.  if you append &ctype=csv, it'll produce csv output.

--Dan



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