Well, it's time for another Bugzilla update! And today I just did two releases, Bugzilla 3.4rc1 and Bugzilla 3.2.3 . Bugzilla 3.4rc1 Bugzilla 3.4rc1 is particularly exciting, because it's our first Release Candidate for 3.4. We did a really good job on this Release Candidate, I think--there's only one 3.4 blocker remaining (and it's only still there because we're waiting on an external party...

Well, it's time for another Bugzilla update! Bugzilla 3.4 In the Bugzilla 3.4 area, we just made some more changes to how the login form in the header and footer work. Now it's easy again for users to discover how to reset their password--when we moved the login forms into the header/footer, we at first didn't have any way for people to discover how to reset their password, but now there's a link...

I just created a Google Code page for the Supybot Bugzilla plugin (what bugbot is using to report changes): http://code.google.com/p/supybot-bugzilla/ You can use that to get the code and to report issues about it. I'd love to put the plugin's documentation on there, but the supybot-plugin-doc script throws a traceback when I try to generate documentation for the Bugzilla plugin, unfortunately...

Hey hey. So, I was thinking that I'd do a regular (or semi-regular) post on the status of the Bugzilla Project, for anybody interested. This is the first one. Bugzilla 3.4 We're getting pretty close to releasing Bugzilla 3.4rc1, now. There are only a few blockers left. Mostly they're just awaiting review. I'll also need some help with the release process for Bugzilla 3.4rc1, if anybody wants...

Guy Pyrzak led a bunch of Carnegie-Mellon students in conducting some HCI research on Bugzilla , and they came up with extensive and detailed results . I have been working on filing bugs in response to their results. I haven't finished filing all the bugs yet, but if you want to follow along with the issues as they are filed and fixed, you can watch the tracking bug I filed to keep track of all...

I switched to Thunderbird today and I am really loving it. So far, it's the best email client I've ever used. :-) It has so many nice things about it--but then again, if you're reading this, you probably already know that. :-) -Max

I have proposed that Bugzilla have a new default status workflow . I wrote my reasoning in a message on the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup, originally as an argument for a workflow that Mozilla should move to, but I think that it covers the basic bug-fixing process sufficiently well as to apply to all organizations, and thus should be the default. I'd welcome constructive feedback, even just statements...

Today for fixing a bug in Bugzilla I needed an event to fire only after the browser had automatically autocompleted the login form (what Firefox, Chrome, and Safari do when you have saved exactly one set of login credentials for a site). Most people would think that window.onload would work, and it does, in one browser--Chrome. Other people might try to use YUI's onDOMReady event, which fires...

So, I just finished watching Fushigi Yugi . It's definitely an older anime, with a more traditional style--almost a more serious and delicately-crafted Dragonball Z with more of an appeal for girls (but still basically an action show despite all the emotional content). I thought the show did best when it was focusing on action, and whenever it started to get weepy I'd kind of roll my eyes and wait...

So, if Apple was wondering about me, and perhaps picking the petals off flowers going "He loves me, he loves me not," I think this time we ended up on "he loves me not." The iPhone SDK only works on Mac OS X. I do not own a Mac. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't own any machine on which OS X will run. The explanation for this is, "It's all built around XCode and Objective C which don't work on other...