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<title>Introduction</title>
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<section id="what-is-bugzilla">
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<title>What is Bugzilla?</title>
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Bugzilla is a bug- or issue-tracking system. Bug-tracking
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systems allow individual or groups of developers effectively to keep track
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of outstanding problems with their products.
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<para><emphasis>Do we need more here?</emphasis></para>
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<section id="why-tracking">
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<title>Why use a bug-tracking system?</title>
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<para>Those who do not use a bug-tracking system tend to rely on
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shared lists, email, spreadsheets and/or Post-It notes to monitor the
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status of defects. This procedure
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is usually error-prone and tends to cause those bugs judged least
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significant by developers to be dropped or ignored.</para>
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<para>Integrated defect-tracking systems make sure that nothing gets
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swept under the carpet; they provide a method of creating, storing,
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arranging and processing defect reports and enhancement requests.</para>
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<section id="why-bugzilla">
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<title>Why use Bugzilla?</title>
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<para>Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
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system. It boasts many advanced features, including:
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<para>Powerful searching</para>
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<para>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</para>
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<para>Full change history</para>
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<para>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</para>
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<para>Excellent attachment management</para>
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<para>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</para>
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<para>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</para>
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<para>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</para>
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<para>Completely customizable and/or localizable web user
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<para>Additional XML, email and console interfaces</para>
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<para>Extensive configurability</para>
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<para>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</para>
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<para>Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses
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currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment
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management, chip design and development problem tracking (both
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pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for
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luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems.
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Combined with systems such as
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<ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org">CVS</ulink>,
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<ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/bonsai.html">Bonsai</ulink>, or
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<ulink url="http://www.perforce.com">Perforce SCM</ulink>, Bugzilla
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provides a powerful, easy-to-use configuration management solution.</para>
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