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<span id="about"></span><h1>1. About This Documentation<a class="headerlink" href="#about-this-documentation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This is the documentation for version 5.0 of Bugzilla, a bug-tracking
system from Mozilla. Bugzilla is an enterprise-class piece of software
that tracks millions of bugs and issues for thousands of organizations around
the world.</p>
<p>The most current version of this document can always be found on the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/">Bugzilla website</a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="evaluating-bugzilla">
<span id="evaluating"></span><h2>1.1. Evaluating Bugzilla<a class="headerlink" href="#evaluating-bugzilla" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>If you want to try out Bugzilla to see if it meets your needs, you can do so
on <a class="reference external" href="https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-4.4-branch/">Landfill</a>, our test
server. The <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:FAQ">Bugzilla FAQ</a> may also
be helpful, as it answers a number of questions people sometimes have about
whether Bugzilla is for them.</p>
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<div class="section" id="getting-more-help">
<span id="getting-help"></span><h2>1.2. Getting More Help<a class="headerlink" href="#getting-more-help" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>If this document does not answer your questions, we run a
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.mozilla.org/about/forums/#support-bugzilla">Mozilla forum</a>
which can be accessed as a newsgroup, mailing list, or over the web as a
Google Group. Please
<a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.support.bugzilla">search it</a>
first, and then ask your question there.</p>
<p>If you need a guaranteed response, commercial support is
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.bugzilla.org/support/consulting.html">available</a> for Bugzilla
from a number of people and organizations.</p>
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<span id="conventions"></span><h2>1.3. Document Conventions<a class="headerlink" href="#document-conventions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This document uses the following conventions:</p>
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<p>This documentation is maintained in
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the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> documentation system. It has
recently been rewritten, so it undoubtedly has bugs. Please file any you find, in
the <a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla;component=Documentation">Bugzilla Documentation</a>
component in Mozilla's installation of Bugzilla. If you also want to make a
patch, that would be wonderful. Changes are best submitted as diffs, attached
to a bug. There is a <a class="reference internal" href="../style.html#style-guide"><span class="std std-ref">Style Guide</span></a> to help you write any
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<span id="id1"></span><h2>1.4. License<a class="headerlink" href="#license" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Bugzilla is <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free</a> and
<a class="reference external" href="http://opensource.org/osd">open source</a> software, which means (among other
things) that you can download it, install it, and run it for any purpose
whatsoever without the need for license or payment. Isn't that refreshing?</p>
<p>Bugzilla's code is made available under the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/">Mozilla Public License 2.0</a> (MPL),
specifically the variant which is Incompatible with Secondary Licenses.
However, again, if you only want to install and run Bugzilla, you don't need
to worry about that; it's only relevant if you redistribute the code or any
changes you make.</p>
<p>Bugzilla's documentation is made available under the
<a class="reference external" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons CC-BY-SA International License 4.0</a>,
or any later version.</p>
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<span id="id2"></span><h2>1.5. Credits<a class="headerlink" href="#credits" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The people listed below have made significant contributions to the
creation of this documentation:</p>
<p>Andrew Pearson,
Ben FrantzDale,
Byron Jones,
Dave Lawrence,
Dave Miller,
Dawn Endico,
Eric Hanson,
Gervase Markham,
Jacob Steenhagen,
Joe Robins,
Kevin Brannen,
Martin Wulffeld,
Matthew P. Barnson,
Ron Teitelbaum,
Shane Travis,
Spencer Smith,
Tara Hernandez,
Terry Weissman,
Vlad Dascalu,
Zach Lipton.</p>
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<p>This documentation undoubtedly has bugs; if you find some, please file
them <a class="reference external" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla&component=Documentation">here</a>.</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">1. About This Documentation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#evaluating-bugzilla">1.1. Evaluating Bugzilla</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#getting-more-help">1.2. Getting More Help</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#document-conventions">1.3. Document Conventions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#license">1.4. License</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#credits">1.5. Credits</a></li>
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