[Hamara-devel] should we switch over to bugzilla 5.0 ?

[shirish]

Hi all,
Should we switch over to bugzilla 5.0 now that its here and now.

https://www.bugzilla.org/releases/5.0/release-notes.html

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/webtools/bugzilla-5.0.tar.gz

Some of the features in the new release look good.

Probably this would be the best :-

Improved WebServices

This release has major improvements in the WebServices interface. One 
big addition is a new REST-like endpoint alongside the existing XML-RPC 
and JSON-RPC endpoints. This will allow clients to access Bugzilla data 
using standard HTTP calls for easy development. Note: XML-RPC and 
JSON-RPC are deprecated in favor of REST and will likely be removed in 
the Bugzilla 7.0 release.

Also API key support has been added so that API calls will no longer 
need to use cookies or a user's login and password. Users can create a 
different API key for each application and revoke API keys that have 
been compromised or are no longer needed. The API key will simply be 
passed to each call as credentials.

Several methods have been added and existing ones improved to allow 
returning data that was not available before such as Group.get. 
Bug.search is now as full featured as the Advanced Query UI allowing for 
the same searches to be executed. Attachment data such as flags and 
other metadata can now be updated through the API. Other WebService 
changes are detailed below.

I guess we would probably wait for 5.0.1 or something for the migration 
although bugzilla instance we have is recent enough so that we should 
not have much issues.

Comments please - @Anant, @Amardeep and all and anybody else who has 
access to administrating the bugzilla instance.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org