Author Archives: aklapper
Bugzilla Tips (VI): Creating reports and tables
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. Quite often I want to … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (V): Saved and shared searches
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. If you find yourself running … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (IV): Searching for empty fields
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. Sometimes you want to search … Continue reading
Überwachung
(Übersetzung und Aktualisierung des englischen Textes. Verweise zu Quellen in englischer Sprache sind als solche gekennzeichnet.) Wer des Englischen mächtig ist, der möge das Interview mit Edward Snowden (englischsprachiger Link) schauen, um seine Beweggründe zu verstehen sowie die Ironie, daß … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (III): Getting copies of another user’s bugmail
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. Sometimes you are interested in … Continue reading
Surveillance.
It’s worth to watch the interview with Edward Snowden to understand his intentions and the irony that he needs questionable governments to protect him against “democracies” who are all allies of the government that persecutes him. Spin doctors manage well … Continue reading
Kaffee, Südfrüchte, Butter.
Vielleicht machen das die Geschäfte und Supermärkte im politischen Westen ja auch und es ist mir nur noch nie aufgefallen: Ist in diesem Lande eine Ware ausverkauft, so wird das die Ware auszeichnende Schildchen (“Butter: 30 Kronen”) entfernt oder einfach … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (II): Changing the columns in search results
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. Sometimes you run a search … Continue reading
Bugzilla Tips (I): Autocompletion
This posting is part of a series on small and sometimes not-so-easy-to-discover functionality in Bugzilla that makes developers’ and users’ lifes more comfortable. It’s based on conversations with users and developers in the last months. People can be impatient, so … Continue reading
Understanding Bugzilla groups and admin rights
As part of my work for the Wikimedia Foundation I recently tried to understand Bugzilla groups a bit better, specifically which tasks can only be done by Bugzilla administrators. In general, permissions to do stuff in Bugzilla (e.g. editing keywords, … Continue reading
