The Bugzilla team will soon be releasing new versions of 3.2, 3.4, 3.6 and 4.0RC. These releases will not be installable on Windows 2000. (more info)
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devZing is happy to release an updated MantisBT management page. From this new management page you can specify a whole host of new settings that were previously unavailable. To access these settings login to your devZing account and click Manage Global Settings. If you don’t already have a devZing MantisBT account you can start a free trial at devZing.com/mantisbt.
Below you can find a list of all the settings now available:
Allow Signup: allow users to signup for their own accounts
Lost Password Feature: Setting to disable the ‘lost your password’ feature
Administrator Email: Administrator Email address
Webmaster Email: Webmaster email
From Email: the sender email, part of ‘From: ‘ header in emails
From Name: the sender name, part of ‘From: ‘ header in emails
Return Path Email: the return address for bounced mail
Window Title: browser window title
Admin Checks: Check for admin directory, database upgrades, etc.
Enable Project Documentation: Specifies whether to enable support for project documents or not
Show Footer Menu: Display another instance of the menu at the bottom. The top menu will still remain.
Show Project Menu Bar: show extra menu bar with all available projects
Show Assigned Names: show assigned to names. This is in the view all pages.
Show Priority Text: If ON shows priority as text. If OFF shows priority as icon.
Show Bug Project Links: show projects when in All Projects mode
Status Percentage Legend: Show a legend with percentage of bug status. x% of all bugs are new, y% of all bugs are assigned and so on. If set to ON it will printed below the status color legend.
Show Realname: show users with their real name or not
Sort by Last Name: sorting for names in dropdown lists. If turned on, ‘Jane Doe’ will be sorted with the ‘D’s
Show Avatar: Show user avatar. the current implementation is based on http://www.gravatar.com users will need to register there the same address used in this MantisBT installation to have their avatar shown.
Show Changelog Dates: Show release dates on changelog
Show Roadmap Dates: Show release dates on roadmap
Enable Eta: Enable or disable usage of the ETA field.
Enable Projection: Enable or disable usage of the Projection field.
Enable Product Build: Enable or disable usage of the Product Build field.
Allow No Category: Allow a bug to have no category
Limit Reporters: Set to ON if you wish to limit reporters to only viewing bugs that they report.
Allow Close Immediately: Allow developers and above to close bugs immediately when resolving bugs
Allow Reporter Close: Allow reporters to close the bugs they reported, after they’re marked resolved.
Allow Reporter Reopen: Allow reporters to reopen the bugs they reported, after they’re marked resolved.
Allow Reporter Upload: Allow reporters to upload attachments to bugs they reported.
Allow Account Delete: Allow users to delete their own accounts
Rss Enabled: This flag enables or disables RSS syndication. In the case where RSS syndication is not used, it is recommended to set it to OFF.
Twitter Username: The twitter account user name. The integration with twitter allows for a MantisBT installation to post updates to a twitter account. This feature will be disabled if username is empty.
Twitter Password: The twitter account password.
Show Extended Project Browser: Shows only top projects in the project dropdown and adds an extra dropdown for subprojects.
Subprojects Inherit Categories: Sub-projects should inherit categories from parent projects.
Subprojects Inherit Versions: Sub-projects should inherit versions from parent projects.
Time Tracking Enabled: Turn on Time Tracking accounting
Time Tracking with Billing: A billing sums
Time Tracking Stopwatch: Stop watch to build time tracking field
Time Tracking Without Note: allow time tracking to be recorded without a bugnote
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While MantisBT is a great bug tracker, there are a number of settings that aren’t available in the standard user interface. Typically you need access to the config_inc.php file on the server. Rather than make you learn PHP there is a new management page available from your settings page:
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All Hosted Bugzilla instances have been updated to 3.6.2. You can read about all the changes here (3.6) and here (3.6.2) or just the differences below.
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A regular questions that comes up regarding Bugzilla is: “How do I delete bugs in Bugzilla?”
The standard answer is that you don’t and you shouldn’t. They usually give good reasons like maintaining history etc. However, there are certainly times (although infrequent) when it is appropriate to delete a bug.
There are some administrative settings you will most like have to change before you can delete a bug. (note: I am referring to Bugzilla 3.4.6) Log in with an account belonging to the admin group and navigate to the Administration page. Then go to the Parameters page. Finally choose the Administrative Policies link. (Administration -> Parameters -> Administrative Policies)
Now you will see the allowbugdeletion parameter which is most likely set to off unless you’ve been fiddling with it while trying to delete a bug. Change the parameter to on and click Save Changes. There is a key hint in the description of this parameter.
The pages to edit products and components can delete all associated bugs when you delete a product (or component). Since that is a pretty scary idea, you have to turn on this option before any such deletions will ever happen.
Note the bolded phrase. You can’t directly delete bugs, you must assign a bug to a component or product and delete it. This bears repeating – you cannot delete a bug directly.
The easiest way is to create a component in the product with the bugs you want to delete. Call it “Trash” or something equally descriptive. Now find the bugs you want to delete and change their component to “Trash”.
Once you have added all the soon to be deleted bugs to your trash component go back to the component list in the administration page (Administration -> Products -> <your product> -> Edit Components). You should see an “Action” column on the far right of the table with all your components with a Delete link. Find your trash component and click the associated “Delete” link.
You will be presented with a confirmation page with a big red warning telling you how many bugs will be deleted. You can view the bug list to verify or just click the “Yes delete” button.
Your bugs are now deleted.
You will most like want to turn the allowbugdeletion parameter off again to prevent accidents.