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> Bugzilla is simply the best piece of bug-tracking software the
world has ever seen. This document is intended to be the
comprehensive guide to the installation, administration,
maintenance, and use of the Bugzilla bug-tracking system.
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> This release of the Bugzilla Guide is the
<EM
>2.16</EM
> release. It is so named that it
may match the current version of Bugzilla. The numbering
tradition stems from that used for many free software projects,
in which <EM
>even-numbered</EM
> point releases (1.2,
1.14, etc.) are considered "stable releases", intended for
public consumption; on the other hand,
<EM
>odd-numbered</EM
> point releases (1.3, 2.09,
etc.) are considered unstable <EM
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releases intended for advanced users, systems administrators,
developers, and those who enjoy a lot of pain.
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> Newer revisions of the Bugzilla Guide follow the numbering
conventions of the main-tree Bugzilla releases, available at
<A
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>. Intermediate releases will have
a minor revision number following a period. The current version
of Bugzilla, as of this writing (April 2nd, 2002) is 2.16; if
something were seriously wrong with that edition of the Guide,
subsequent releases would receive an additional dotted-decimal
digit to indicate the update (2.16.1, 2.16.2, etc.).
Got it? Good.
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