The Evolution Of Bugzilla

Gervase Markham

mozilla.org

The Evolution of Bugzilla

Bugzilla's evolution has mostly been driven by the needs of bugzilla.mozilla.org.

Hardware

Sources Of Change

Bugzilla changes under pressure from users. Requirements for change can be:

Bugzilla Evolves: 1998

Bugzilla Evolves: 1999

Bugzilla Evolves: 2000

Bugzilla Evolves: 2001

Bugzilla Evolves: 2002

Bugzilla Evolves: 2003

Bugzilla Evolves: 2004

Bugzilla Evolves: 2005

  • January - 2.18 released
    2.5 years after the previous release
  • January to May - modularization
  • May - initial support for PostgreSQL
    Filed bugs for Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, Firebird and MS-SQL
  • Bugzilla Evolves: 2006

  • February - custom fields
    (Sorry, Joel)
  • July - custom resolutions
  • July to September - modularize checksetup.pl (old code)
  • October - shiny new skin
    Goodbye 1980s
  • December - mod_perl support
  • Bugzilla Evolves: 2007

  • May - Bugzilla 3.0 released - 2.1MB archive
  • June - custom statuses and workflow
  • Bugzilla Evolves: 2008

  • January - DB transactions
  • The Future

    The End

    Questions?