{Spam?} Minutes of our last Bugzilla meeting

[Frédéric Buclin]

Here is briefly what we discussed on Tuesday, April 11, 2006:

- QA tests are all done and successful and so we can now release 2.22
and 2.20.2... as soon as our release manager has some time to do this.
justdave said he would give some help to get them out asap. This also
means our support for 2.16 is officially over.

- Mozilla is planning to hire an additional webtools person, which would
include Bugzilla, but also the addons site and the update system and
bonsai/tinderbox/etc as well.

- Top 5 reviewers for the last 6 months are:

1. LpSolit with 317 reviews
2. mkanat (104)
3. wicked  (99)
4. vladd (58)
5. wurblzap (47)


- About the roadmap, http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Roadmap :
The stuff for April (removing versioncache) may or may not make it 
within April, but the stuff that's due in June (removing globals.pl, 
removing deprecated DB routines and rewriting Flag.pm) is ahead of 
schedule and will probably land in April or May. There has been progress 
on some of the later summer stuff as well.

- gandalf is working on a new UI for Bugzilla 3.0, using AJAX. You can 
see how it looks like here: http://landfill.bugzilla.org/gandui/ This is 
still in progress (and AJAX isn't actually in use AFAIK). Moreover, he 
posted a link to the roadmap he wrote about the UI rewrite: 
http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Gandalf/Draft:Bugzilla_UI If you are 
interested in helping to improve the UI, join us to our next Bugzilla 
meeting or talk to gandalf in #mozwebtools on IRC.

- Several people are waiting for a Web Service API, but it requires 
previous items from the roadmap to be fixed first.

- We plan to implement "Automatic Update Notification for Bugzilla" (bug 
330487) very soon now. Bugzilla will check for new releases once per 
week, if this parameter is turned on, and will notify administrators 
when they go to index.cgi based on the option chosen:
* development snapshot: latest release of the trunk (e.g. 2.23.1);
* latest stable release: most recent stable release, independently of 
your installation (e.g. 2.22, even if you are running a 2.18.x version 
of Bugzilla);
* latest stable release of the branch: most recent stable release based 
on the branch your installation is runnning on (e.g. 2.18.5 if you are 
running 2.18.x with x < 5));
* do not notify: Bugzilla won't check for new releases.
The patch is already applied to 
http://landfill.bugzilla.org/notification/ You need admin privs to see 
something though.

- Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 25th, 2006 at 18:00 GMT (11:00 
PST, 20:00 CET) in #bugzilla-meeting.


LpSolit