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>Chapter 1. About This Guide</TD
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>1.1. Purpose and Scope of this Guide</A
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> This document was started on September 17, 2000
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by Matthew P. Barnson after a great deal of procrastination updating the Bugzilla FAQ,
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which I left untouched for nearly half a year.
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After numerous complete rewrites and reformatting, it is the document you see today.
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> Despite the lack of updates, Bugzilla is simply the best piece of bug-tracking software
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the world has ever seen. This document is intended to be the comprehensive guide to
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the installation, administration, maintenance, and use of the Bugzilla bug-tracking system.
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> This release of the Bugzilla Guide is the <EM
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> release.
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It is so named that it may match the current version of Bugzilla.
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The numbering tradition stems from that used for many free software projects,
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in which <EM
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>even-numbered</EM
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> point releases (1.2, 1.14, etc.)
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are considered "stable releases", intended for public consumption; on the other
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hand, <EM
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>odd-numbered</EM
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> point releases (1.3, 2.09, etc.)
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are considered unstable <EM
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>development</EM
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> releases intended
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for advanced users, systems administrators, developers, and those who enjoy
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a lot of pain.
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> Newer revisions of the Bugzilla Guide will follow the numbering conventions of
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the main-tree Bugzilla releases, available at
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>Mozilla.org</A
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>, with
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the exception that intermediate releases will have a minor revision number
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following a period. For instance, if the current version of Bugzilla is 4.2,
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the current "stable" version of the Bugzilla guide, in, say, it's fifth revision,
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would be numbered "4.2.5". Got it? Good.
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> I wrote this in response to the enormous demand for decent Bugzilla documentation.
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I have incorporated instructions from the Bugzilla README, Frequently Asked Questions,
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Database Schema Document, and various mailing lists to create it.
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Chances are, there are glaring errors in this documentation; please contact
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> to correct them.
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