Comments on: Bugzilla for Humans

By: From Twitter 06-21-2010 « Mobile Tweeting in Philippines

From Twitter 06-21-2010 « Mobile Tweeting in Philippines — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:03:34 +0000

[...] http://blog.johnath.com/2010/02/04/bugzilla-for-humans/ -> I miss bugzilla [...]

By: How to Triage Mozilla Bugs « Philipp Kewisch

How to Triage Mozilla Bugs « Philipp Kewisch — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:12:09 +0000

[...] johnath made a very nice video blog post introducing you to Bugzilla, its worth listening [...]

By: ThomasD

ThomasD — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41:34 +0000

Jonathan, this is great stuff, thanks! The tutorial video should be promoted on relevant pages, especially there should be a link to this when people click on the help button on bmo’s home page. Nice visual intro for both beginners and advanced users of bugzilla, the devil we know…

By: Jean Couprie

Jean Couprie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:06:06 +0000

I have just reported some bugs, I am not a developer just an user of Mozilla programs.

One of the problem in Bugzilla is that the email address show in clear (e.g. if you ask to show the source of the header of a comment by selecting + right click + show source) : it is very helpful for the people that harvest addresses to spam ! They just have to create an account and look at bugs with a script to extract addresses. Most of the forums do not do this blunder… This a forced me to abandon a previous, now I use @gmail.com that is very strong against spam.

This is very frustrating to see that after 6 months nothing has occurred, bug is not verified : I know that I cannot hope to win a solution to a problem in few months but I have not to loose my time by reporting…

By: Matt Evans

Matt Evans — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:59:10 +0000

I used Bugzilla for years, but being new to Mozilla this video really helped me get an initial understanding how much of Mozilla’s world is driven thru Bugzilla. Mozilla’s use of Bugzilla is on a whole different scale than I’ve used before.

Great video. An enjoyable, informative bite size intro to Bugzilla. Thanks.

By: Boris Bokowski

Boris Bokowski — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:06:37 +0000

Thanks a lot – was happy to learn something new even after five years of heavy Bugzilla usage.

One thing that I rely on very much, is a separate email account that watches my primary Bugzilla account. I don’t ever delete those emails – they represent my “rearview mirror” onto everything that went by in the past. By searching those emails instead of in Bugzilla itself, I usually find what I need much faster. Usually, all I need is a single search term, because the search is automatically scoped to the subset of bugs that are relevant to me.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:26:48 +0000

I don’t use bugzilla, but your video makes me think that I will start using it.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:55:55 +0000

I’ll probably never use bugzilla, but I found that entertaining.

By: Duv

Duv — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:23:52 +0000

What ogg? I don’t see it… all I get is the Vimeo object.

By: John Slater

John Slater — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:00:22 +0000

This is awesome – wish I’d had this as a reference when I first started at Mozilla!