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Full Article Attached Bugzilla Upgraded

Monday November 11th, 2002

Myk Melez has posted a newsgroup message about Friday's upgrade of bugzilla.mozilla.org. The upgrade offers several new features but also a few regressions. Read the full article for more details.

#1 reports

by james

Tuesday November 12th, 2002 8:09 PM

The new reports features in Bugzilla are really great. It does seem a bit slower than the old reports, but it is nice to be able to generate reports on arbitrary sets of bugs.

#2 Suggestions to users

by Racer

Wednesday November 13th, 2002 12:18 PM

Heh kind of funny the suggestions they give for the new features:

- please add conditions so you are only reporting on bugs you care about

- please don't generate reports just for fun

- please don't generate reports regularly using a cron job

- please don't link to report .PNGs from a web page, but save the images and mirror them instead.

In my experience, asking people not to do something is their best motivation to do it.

Also, given that BugZilla is/can be user-aware, I think it could limit users to lower-priority levels if they are doing lots of intensive/complex report queries. Well, maybe that'll be in the next rev...maybe it does that already.