http://linas.org/linux/pm.html</ulink>
</para>
- <section id="rhbugzilla" xreflabel="Red Hat Bugzilla">
+ <section id="variant-redhat">
<title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title>
- <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is a fork of Bugzilla 2.8.
- One of its major benefits is the ability
- to work with Oracle, MySQL, and PostGreSQL databases serving as the
- back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat is
- active in the Bugzilla community, and we hope to see a reunification
- of the fork before too long.</para>
+ <para>Red Hat's old fork of Bugzilla which was based on version 2.8 is now
+ obsolete. The newest version in use is based on version 2.17.1 and is in
+ the process of being integrated into the main Bugzilla source tree. The
+ back-end is modified to work with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and they have
+ custom templates to get their desired look and feel, but other than that it
+ is Bugzilla 2.17.1. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat put forth a great deal of
+ effort to make sure that the changes he made could be integrated back into
+ the main tree.
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304">Bug
+ 98304</ulink> exists to track this integration.
+ </para>
<para>URL:
<ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 24 Dec 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-fenris" xreflabel="Loki Bugzilla, a.k.a. Fenris">
+ <section id="variant-fenris">
<title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title>
<para>Fenris was a fork from Bugzilla made by Loki Games; when
Loki went into receivership, it died. While Loki's other code lives on,
its custodians recommend Bugzilla for future bug-tracker deployments.
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-issuezilla" xreflabel="Issuezilla">
+ <section id="variant-issuezilla">
<title>Issuezilla</title>
<para>Issuezilla was another fork from Bugzilla, made by collab.net and
hosted at tigris.org. It is also dead; the primary focus of bug-tracking
at tigris.org is their Java-based bug-tracker,
<xref linkend="variant-scarab"/>.</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-scarab" xreflabel="Scarab">
+ <section id="variant-scarab">
<title>Scarab</title>
<para>Scarab is a new open source bug-tracking system built using Java
- Serlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 8.</para>
+ Servlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 13.</para>
<para>URL:
<ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 18 Jan 2003</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-perforce" xreflabel="Using Perforce to track bugs">
+ <section id="variant-perforce">
<title>Perforce SCM</title>
<para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html
</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-sourceforge" xreflabel="SourceForge">
+ <section id="variant-sourceforge">
<title>SourceForge</title>
<para>SourceForge is a way of coordinating geographically
<ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net">
http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
</appendix>
http://linas.org/linux/pm.html</ulink>
</para>
- <section id="rhbugzilla" xreflabel="Red Hat Bugzilla">
+ <section id="variant-redhat">
<title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title>
- <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is a fork of Bugzilla 2.8.
- One of its major benefits is the ability
- to work with Oracle, MySQL, and PostGreSQL databases serving as the
- back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat is
- active in the Bugzilla community, and we hope to see a reunification
- of the fork before too long.</para>
+ <para>Red Hat's old fork of Bugzilla which was based on version 2.8 is now
+ obsolete. The newest version in use is based on version 2.17.1 and is in
+ the process of being integrated into the main Bugzilla source tree. The
+ back-end is modified to work with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL and they have
+ custom templates to get their desired look and feel, but other than that it
+ is Bugzilla 2.17.1. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat put forth a great deal of
+ effort to make sure that the changes he made could be integrated back into
+ the main tree.
+ <ulink url="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304">Bug
+ 98304</ulink> exists to track this integration.
+ </para>
<para>URL:
<ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 24 Dec 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-fenris" xreflabel="Loki Bugzilla, a.k.a. Fenris">
+ <section id="variant-fenris">
<title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title>
<para>Fenris was a fork from Bugzilla made by Loki Games; when
Loki went into receivership, it died. While Loki's other code lives on,
its custodians recommend Bugzilla for future bug-tracker deployments.
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-issuezilla" xreflabel="Issuezilla">
+ <section id="variant-issuezilla">
<title>Issuezilla</title>
<para>Issuezilla was another fork from Bugzilla, made by collab.net and
hosted at tigris.org. It is also dead; the primary focus of bug-tracking
at tigris.org is their Java-based bug-tracker,
<xref linkend="variant-scarab"/>.</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-scarab" xreflabel="Scarab">
+ <section id="variant-scarab">
<title>Scarab</title>
<para>Scarab is a new open source bug-tracking system built using Java
- Serlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 8.</para>
+ Servlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 13.</para>
<para>URL:
<ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 18 Jan 2003</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-perforce" xreflabel="Using Perforce to track bugs">
+ <section id="variant-perforce">
<title>Perforce SCM</title>
<para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html
</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
- <section id="variant-sourceforge" xreflabel="SourceForge">
+ <section id="variant-sourceforge">
<title>SourceForge</title>
<para>SourceForge is a way of coordinating geographically
<ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net">
http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink>
</para>
+
+ <para>This section last updated 27 Jul 2002</para>
</section>
</appendix>