Mozilla-Webtools and Mozilla-Documentation subscribers:
I am very pleased to announce the release of version 2.11 of The Bugzilla
Guide! The Guide is intended to supplant and assimilate all existing
documentation for Bugzilla. This first release version has a few known bugs,
and a lot more information still needs to get into it, but it is serviceable.
I need people to try out the instructions contained therein (particularly
the section on installing Bugzilla on Win32, which has not been extensively
tested) and give me feedback on potential improvements and corrections.
The Guide is written in DocBook SGML to allow for easy portability to HTML,
TXT, PDF, Postscript, Groff, TexInfo, LaTex, manpage, and other formats.
Instructions on compiling the SGML sources into other formats can be grabbed
out of CVS, in mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/README.docs. The rest of the
Guide is also available from CVS, in mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/html or
mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/sgml (for sources).
For the impatient, the fastest and easiest way to obtain The Bugzilla Guide
and supporting materials today is from my website:
http://www.trilobyte.net/barnsons/
This will always be the most current version of the Guide. It will also
appear on the mozilla.org website in a few days, and be released with the
Bugzilla 2.12 tarball in TXT, HTML, and SGML formats. Additionally, I am
submitting it to linuxdoc.org so the Guide may be included with HOWTO
documents of most major Linux distributions.
I'd like to particularly thank these people for their contributions towards
the release of the Guide:
Neil Lawrence, for hosting the Guide and being patient with all the traffic
because of it.
Shiv Sikand, for supporting my Bugzilla efforts at Velio Communications.
NetDemon, Dave Miller, Dawn Endico, Andreas Franke, Benjy Thomas, Gervase
Markham, Jacob Steenhagen, and many others from #mozwebtools who provided
invaluable feedback, support, and reminders to "get some sleep" during this
mad dash for finalized 2.12 documentation.
I hope it may prove useful to you, and that we can find many ways to improve
it.
--
Matthew "Barnboy" Barnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
