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

[Amardeep Singh]

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On Thursday 09 July 2015 11:41 PM, shirish wrote:
> 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.
I don't see any issue in upgrading. Sooner we upgrade better and easier 
it will be.

@Anant - Can you take this up please and send notification for upgrade.

Thanks,

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AMARDEEP SINGH
Hamara Architect
Team Hamara Linux