<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Hints and Tips</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Bugzilla Guide - 3.6.2 Release" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Using Bugzilla" HREF="using.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Attachments" HREF="attachments.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Time Tracking Information" HREF="timetracking.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="section" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Bugzilla Guide - 3.6.2 Release</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="attachments.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. Using Bugzilla</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="timetracking.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H1 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="hintsandtips" >5.8. Hints and Tips</A ></H1 ><P >This section distills some Bugzilla tips and best practices that have been developed.</P ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="AEN2600" >5.8.1. Autolinkification</A ></H2 ><P >Bugzilla comments are plain text - so typing <U> will produce less-than, U, greater-than rather than underlined text. However, Bugzilla will automatically make hyperlinks out of certain sorts of text in comments. For example, the text "http://www.bugzilla.org" will be turned into a link: <A HREF="http://www.bugzilla.org" TARGET="_top" >http://www.bugzilla.org</A >. Other strings which get linkified in the obvious manner are: <P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD >bug 12345</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >comment 7</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >bug 23456, comment 53</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >attachment 4321</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >mailto:george@example.com</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >george@example.com</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >ftp://ftp.mozilla.org</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >Most other sorts of URL</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P > </P ><P >A corollary here is that if you type a bug number in a comment, you should put the word "bug" before it, so it gets autolinkified for the convenience of others. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="commenting" >5.8.2. Comments</A ></H2 ><P >If you are changing the fields on a bug, only comment if either you have something pertinent to say, or Bugzilla requires it. Otherwise, you may spam people unnecessarily with bug mail. To take an example: a user can set up their account to filter out messages where someone just adds themselves to the CC field of a bug (which happens a lot.) If you come along, add yourself to the CC field, and add a comment saying "Adding self to CC", then that person gets a pointless piece of mail they would otherwise have avoided. </P ><P > Don't use sigs in comments. Signing your name ("Bill") is acceptable, if you do it out of habit, but full mail/news-style four line ASCII art creations are not. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="comment-wrapping" >5.8.3. Server-Side Comment Wrapping</A ></H2 ><P > Bugzilla stores comments unwrapped and wraps them at display time. This ensures proper wrapping in all browsers. Lines beginning with the ">" character are assumed to be quotes, and are not wrapped. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="section" ><H2 CLASS="section" ><A NAME="dependencytree" >5.8.4. Dependency Tree</A ></H2 ><P > On the <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"Dependency tree"</SPAN > page linked from each bug page, you can see the dependency relationship from the bug as a tree structure. </P ><P > You can change how much depth to show, and you can hide resolved bugs from this page. You can also collaps/expand dependencies for each bug on the tree view, using the [-]/[+] buttons that appear before its summary. This option is not available for terminal bugs in the tree (that don't have further dependencies). </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="attachments.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="timetracking.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Attachments</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="using.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Time Tracking Information</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >