Version 4.4, first released in 2013, is still supported on the grounds that “our support policy says that we have to support it for 4 months after the following two major releases,” and there has only been one later major release so far, though Miller intends that version 4.4.14 will be the last. The release history and plans for Bugzilla are not straightforward. It is “free as in freedom and free as in price.”
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“While the potential exists in the code to turn Bugzilla into a technical support ticket system, task management tool, or project management tool, we should focus on the task of designing a system to track software defects,” the project site states. The project’s goals include a tight focus on bug tracking.
Miller became project leader in July 2001. It was ported from TCL to Perl soon after. The project originated with Mozilla, which created the first version in-house and released it in 1998. The Bugzilla project claims usage by “hundreds of thousands” of organizations, with examples including the Linux kernel (), Apache Foundation, LibreOffice, Apple-sponsored WebKit, FreeBSD, and Oracle.
The test suite has been moved too and there is now a private repository for security commits, to avoid exposing these to malicious users before they are released. Now he again has time to give to the project and has already fixed some issues with the infrastructure, like the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) bot not working because of out of date SSL libraries. “I’ve attempted to hand off control of the project to someone else twice in the last 10 years,” he said, but each time the person got a new job and did not have time to take on Bugzilla as well.
In a post to the Bugzilla site, Miller confessed to not having done much for the project over a number of years. Bugzilla, an open source defect tracking system designed for self-hosting, will be getting updates again after a period of inactivity, according to project lead Dave Miller who said that life changes will give him more time to spend on the project.
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