Commit 025df7c7 authored by jocuri%softhome.net's avatar jocuri%softhome.net

Documentation patch for bug 262268: Document in release notes that flags should…

Documentation patch for bug 262268: Document in release notes that flags should not contain spaces and indicate checksetup.pl tool for upgrading; patch by justdave@bugzilla.org updated by Nick.Barnes@pobox.com, r=vladd.
parent 982de31e
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What's Changed?
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Flag names
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Prerelease versions of Bugzilla 2.17 and 2.18 inadvertantly allowed
commas and spaces in the names of flags, which due to the way they're
processed, caused lots of internal havoc if you named flags to have
any commas or spaces in them. Having commas or spaces in the names
can cause errors in the notification emails and in the bug activity
log. The ability to create new flags with these characters has been
removed. If you have any existing flags that you named that way,
running checksetup will attempt to automatically rename them by
replacing commas and spaces with underscores.
Rules for changing fields
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There have been some changes to the rules governing who can change which fields
of a bug report. The rules for Bugzilla version 2.16 and 2.18, along with
differences between them, are listed below. Bear in mind that there are other
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