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authorbarnboy%trilobyte.net <>2001-11-21 04:09:06 +0000
committerbarnboy%trilobyte.net <>2001-11-21 04:09:06 +0000
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Added Javascript, Cookies, and Templatization requirements to Hacking
Bugzilla.
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/xml/patches.xml b/docs/xml/patches.xml
index ec68667b4..dcbe626be 100644
--- a/docs/xml/patches.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/patches.xml
@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ grep (/$value/, @array);
</para>
<para>
What appears below if a brief summary, please refer to the perl style
- guide if you don't see your question covered here.
+ guide if you don't see your question covered here. It is much better to submit
+ a patch which fails these criteria than no patch at all, but please try to meet
+ these minimum standards when submitting code to Bugzilla.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -353,6 +355,17 @@ else
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Cookies
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Bugzilla uses cookies to ease the user experience, but no new patches
+ should <emphasis>require</emphasis> user-side cookies.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
File Names
@@ -365,6 +378,17 @@ else
can cause confusion in CVS and other mozilla.org utilities.
</para>
</listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Javascript dependencies
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ While Bugzilla uses Javascript to make the user experience easier, no patch
+ to Bugzilla should <emphasis>require</emphasis> Javascript.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Schema Changes
@@ -375,6 +399,16 @@ else
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Templatization
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Patches to Bugzilla need to support templates so they do not force user interface choices
+ on Bugzilla administrators.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Variable Names
@@ -389,6 +423,7 @@ else
on the same screen as <computeroutput>my $ret = "";</computeroutput>.
</para>
</listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
Cross Database Compatability