[Bugzilla-announce-list] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 4.2 Upgrade Public Release Candidate

Thu May 10 10:45:47 UTC 2012

Greetings,

REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on 
May 22nd starting at 6 p.m. EDT [2200 UTC] to perform an upgrade from 
Bugzilla 3.6 to Bugzilla 4.2. We are hoping to be complete in no more 
than 3 hours barring any problems. Any services relying on 
bugzilla.redhat.com may not work properly during this time. Please be 
aware in case you need use of those services during the outage.

Also *PLEASE* make sure any scripts or other external applications that 
rely on bugzilla.redhat.com are tested against our test server before 
the upgrade if you have not done so already (see original email below). 
Let the Bugzilla Team know immediately of any issues found by reporting 
the bug in bugzilla.redhat.com against the Bugzilla product, version 4.2.

A summary of the RPC changes is also included below

_RPC changes from upstream Bugzilla 4.2_

  * Bug.* returns arrays for components, versions and aliases
  * Bug.* returns target_release array
  * Bug.* returns flag information (from Bugzilla 4.4)
  * Bug.search supports searching on keywords, dependancies, blocks
  * Bug.search supports quick searches, saved searches and advanced searches
  * Group.get has been added
  * Component.* and Flag.* have been added
  * Product.get has a component_names option to return just the
    component names.

_RPC changes from Red Hat Bugzilla 3.6_

  * This list may be incomplete.
  * This list excludes upstream changes from 3.6 that we inherited
  * Bug.update calls may use different column names. For example, in 3.6
    you updated the 'short_desc' key if you wanted to change the
    summary. Now you must use the 'summary' key. This may be an
    inconeniance, but will make it much more maintainable in the long run.
  * Bug.search_new new becomes Bug.search. The 3.6 version of Bug.search
    is no longer available.
  * Product.* has been changed to match upstream code
  * Group.create has been added
  * RedHat.* and bugzilla.* calls that mirror official RPC calls are
    officially depreciated, and will be removed approximately two months
    after Red Hat Bugzilla 4.2 is released.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Bugzilla-announce-list] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 4.2 
Upgrade Public Beta
Date: 	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:23:39 +1000
From: 	Simon Green <sgreen at redhat.com>
To: 	bugzilla-announce-list at redhat.com

Greetings,

The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta
release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream
4.2 code base.

At this stage, we have pencilled in the upgrade to our production system
on Monday May 21st at 2200 (10pm) UTC. We will confirm this date, and
make an announcement of a release candidate closer to the date.

Please test drive at:

     https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com

Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla
to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has
incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different
ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus
maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes&  enhancements.

The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality
that currently works in our 3.6 code base should continue to work as
expected in the new 4.2 release. These include various AJAX
optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser,
several various UI enhancements, and of course the JSONRPC and XMLRPC API.

Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure
they continue to function properly.

There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have
come to expect in 3.6 is possible in the new system.

There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream
4.2 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the
last release, check out the release notes page at
https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html  .

The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be
useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly
and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any
performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary
spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify
proper working order.

We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most
robust and stable release possible.

Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
Bugzilla system athttps://bugzilla.redhat.com  . File them under the
Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 4.2. With
everyone's help we can make this a great release.

-- 

Regards,

Simon Green
Software Engineer
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