Hey hey. So, I was thinking that I'd do a regular (or semi-regular) post on the status of the Bugzilla Project, for anybody interested. This is the first one.

Bugzilla 3.4

We're getting pretty close to releasing Bugzilla 3.4rc1, now. There are only a few blockers left. Mostly they're just awaiting review. I'll also need some help with the release ( Read more... )

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla, and they came up with extensive and detailed resultsI have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch ( Read more... )

I switched to Thunderbird today and I am really loving it. So far, it's the best email client I've ever used. :-) It has so many nice things about it--but then again, if you're reading this, you probably already know that. :-)

-Max

I have proposed that Bugzilla have a new default status workflow. I wrote my reasoning in a message on the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup, originally as an argument for a workflow that Mozilla should move to, but I think that it covers the basic bug-fixing process sufficiently well as to apply to all organizations, and thus should be the default ( Read more... )

Today for fixing a bug in Bugzilla I needed an event to fire only after the browser had automatically autocompleted the login form (what Firefox, Chrome, and Safari do when you have saved exactly one set of login credentials for a site). Most people would think that window.onload would work, and it does, in one browser--Chrome. Other people might ( Read more... )

So, I just finished watching Fushigi Yugi. It's definitely an older anime, with a more traditional style--almost a more serious and delicately-crafted Dragonball Z with more of an appeal for girls (but still basically an action show despite all the emotional content). I thought the show did best when it was focusing on action, and whenever it ( Read more... )

So, if Apple was wondering about me, and perhaps picking the petals off flowers going "He loves me, he loves me not," I think this time we ended up on "he loves me not ( Read more... )

So, today we released Bugzilla 3.2.1, which fixes the longest-standing security bugs in Bugzilla, in addition to a few other security issues. These long-standing security issues were actually public for many years, but it required a lot of re-architecture of Bugzilla before we could fix them.

We also released 3.3.2, which has a lot of cool new ( Read more... )

For those using bugzilla.mozilla.org, I wanted to let you know that when we upgraded to 3.2, you got access to a new Bugzilla skin called "Dusk." Though I've been attempting to convince the admins of the site to switch bugzilla.mozilla.org over to usnig Dusk by default, it hasn't happened (yet?). So, I wanted to let you know that you can change ( Read more... )

So, fedorafaq.org has had the same site design for many years. It was okay, but I thought it'd be nice to have a newer, even cleaner design (the top of the page became particularly cluttered with the old design). Also, I had this realization about visual design (this will probably be the subject of a separate blog) and I wanted to try applying my ( Read more... )