Bugzilla Schema doc

Nick.Barnes at pobox.com Nick.Barnes at pobox.com
Fri May 28 08:26:00 UTC 2010


Please can I have a volunteer to take over the maintenance of the
Bugzilla Schema documentation?

<http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/tool/cgi/bugzilla-schema/>

I don't have time for it any more.  You will need to understand the
current Bugzilla database schema, be able to figure out the purpose of
any schema changes (grep is your friend for this), and have some
really basic Python and MySQL skills.  You'll also need access to a
web server which can run Python CGI (maybe this could be hosted at
bugzilla.org?)

I've received a lot of praise for this resource over the years; I'm
sure there's someone out there who wants to carry it on.  The fact all
the underlying schema tables are generated through a MySQL interface
from actual installations of every single Bugzilla version since 2.0
makes it definitive, and the "show range of schema versions" feature
is tremendously useful when upgrading custom Bugzillas or when porting
third-party tools.

Nick B



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