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. -
This release of the Bugzilla Guide is the - 2.16 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 even-numbered point releases (1.2, - 1.14, etc.) are considered "stable releases", intended for - public consumption; on the other hand, - odd-numbered point releases (1.3, 2.09, - etc.) are considered unstable development - releases intended for advanced users, systems administrators, - developers, and those who enjoy a lot of pain. -
Newer revisions of the Bugzilla Guide follow the numbering - conventions of the main-tree Bugzilla releases, available at - http://www.bugzilla.org/. 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. -