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<title>About This Guide</title>
<section id="copyright">
<title>Copyright Information</title>
<blockquote>
<attribution>Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Matthew P. Barnson and &bzg-auth;</attribution>
<para>
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the
Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
the license is included in <xref linkend="gfdl"/>.
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<para>
If you have any questions regarding this document, its
copyright, or publishing this document in non-electronic form,
please contact &bzg-auth;.
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<section id="disclaimer">
<title>Disclaimer</title>
<para>
No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
Use the concepts, examples, and other content at your own risk.
This document may contain errors
and inaccuracies that may damage your system, cause your partner
to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to
pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear
war. Proceed with caution.
</para>
<para>
All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless
specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document
should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any
trademark or service mark.
</para>
<para>
Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". We
wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux in every situation
where it is appropriate. It is an extremely versatile, stable,
and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
environment for Bugzilla.
</para>
<para>
You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system
before installing Bugzilla and at regular intervals thereafter.
If you implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!
</para>
<para>
Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to
ensure that all easily-exploitable bugs or options are
documented or fixed in the code, security holes surely exist.
Great care should be taken both in the installation and usage of
this software. Carefully consider the implications of installing
other network services with Bugzilla. The Bugzilla development
team members, Netscape Communications, America Online Inc., and
any affiliated developers or sponsors assume no liability for
your use of this product. You have the source code to this
product, and are responsible for auditing it yourself to ensure
your security needs are met.
</para>
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<title>New Versions</title>
<para>
This is the &bz-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named
to match the current version of Bugzilla.
<![%bz-devel;[
This version of the guide, like its associated Bugzilla version is a
development version. Information is subject to change between now and
when &bz-nextver; is released.
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If you are
reading this from any source other than those below, please
check one of these mirrors to make sure you are reading an
up-to-date version of the Guide.
</para>
<para>
The newest version of this guide can always be found at <ulink
url="http://www.bugzilla.org"/>; including
documentation for past releases and the current development version.
</para>
<para>
The documentation for the most recent stable release of Bugzilla can also
be found at
<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
The latest version of this document can always be checked out via CVS.
Please follow the <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">Mozilla CVS</ulink>
instructions and check out the <filename>mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/</filename>
subtree.
</para>
<para>
The Bugzilla Guide is currently only available in English.
If you would like to volunteer to translate it, please contact
<ulink url="mailto:justdave@syndicomm.com">Dave Miller</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id="credits">
<title>Credits</title>
<para>
The people listed below have made enormous contributions to the
creation of this Guide, through their writing, dedicated hacking efforts,
numerous e-mail and IRC support sessions, and overall excellent
contribution to the Bugzilla community:
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<term>Matthew P. Barnson <email>mbarnson@sisna.com</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for the Herculaean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide
and shepherding it to 2.14.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Terry Weissman <email>terry@mozilla.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon
which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Tara Hernandez <email>tara@tequilarists.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left
mozilla.org and for running landfill.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Dave Lawrence <email>dkl@redhat.com</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for providing insight into the key differences between Red
Hat's customized Bugzilla, and being largely responsible for
<xref linkend="variant-redhat"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Dawn Endico <email>endico@mozilla.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's
incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Jacob Steenhagen <email>jake@bugzilla.org</email></term>
<listitem>
<para>for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development
period.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
Last but not least, all the members of the
<ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools"/>
newsgroup. Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches,
this could never have happened.
</para>
<para>
Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions
to this documentation (in alphabetical order):
<simplelist type="inline">
<member>Andrew Pearson</member>
<member>Ben FrantzDale</member>
<member>Eric Hanson</member>
<member>Gervase Markham</member>
<member>Joe Robins</member>
<member>Kevin Brannen</member>
<member>Martin Wulffeld</member>
<member>Ron Teitelbaum</member>
<member>Spencer Smith</member>
<member>Zach Liption</member>
</simplelist>
.
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