Re: [gentoo-dev] UPGRADE complete bugs.gentoo.org

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 20:17 -0400, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
> The upgrade for bugs.gentoo.org went exactly as I had planned for.
> Completed in under 20 minutes, which included this email. I've upgraded
> our Bugzilla from the old 2.18rc2 to 2.18.1. This fixes more security
> and code than I can even begin to mention. I have cleaned out a lot of
> the code and added in some nice features.

Thank you so much for working on this, Jeffrey - I really appreciate it.
Nice to see that the upgrade went smoothly too.

> Those nice features I'd like to higlight:
>
> (1) In the bug list, enhancements are colored green, while critical and
> blocker bugs are still colored red. This should help in picking out the
> enhancement bugs.

While color coding is good, I think it would be nice (at least from an
accessibility point of view) to still have enhancement requests written
in italics.

> (4) Comments now have [reply] links where clicking, will append the
> reply into the 'Additional Comments' textbox where one can easily
> comment on earlier replies.

That's the most useful new feature in this release, if you ask me. 

> (5) Strikeouts now work for bugs with closed-like resolutions. Allows a
> user to more quickly tell the status of a resolved bug.

This is nice too, been missing that functionality.

> Anything else I've forgotten, I will happily take full credit for. I
> would also like to thank the numerous bugzilla developers over in
> irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools. They were endlessly patient with my
> questions and I am endlessly greatful.

Thank you to all who made the upgrade possible and smooth (at least it
was smooth for me ;)

Sincerely,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
Gentoo Linux