# About This Guide

## Copyright Information

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## Disclaimer

No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples, and other content at your own risk. This document may contain errors and inaccuracies that may damage your system, cause your partner to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear war. Proceed with caution.

All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless specifically noted otherwise. Use of a term in this document should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark.

Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux". We wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux in every situation where it is appropriate. It is an extremely versatile, stable, and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating environment for Bugzilla.

You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system before installing Bugzilla and at regular intervals thereafter. If you implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!

Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to ensure that all easily-exploitable bugs or options are documented or fixed in the code, security holes surely exist. Great care should be taken both in the installation and usage of this software. Carefully consider the implications of installing other network services with Bugzilla. The Bugzilla development team members, Netscape Communications, America Online Inc., and any affiliated developers or sponsors assume no liability for your use of this product. You have the source code to this product, and are responsible for auditing it yourself to ensure your security needs are met.

## New Versions

This is the &bzg-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named to match the version of Bugzilla it is disributed with. If you are reading this from any source other than those below, please check one of these mirrors to make sure you are reading an up-to-date version of the Guide.

The newest version of this guide can always be found at bugzilla.org; including documentation for past releases and the current development version.

The documentation for the most recent stable release of Bugzilla can also be found at The Linux Documentation Project.

The latest version of this document can always be checked out via CVS. Please follow the instructions available at the Mozilla CVS page, and check out the `mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/` subtree.

The Bugzilla Guide is currently only available in English. If you would like to volunteer to translate it, please contact Dave Miller.

## Credits

The people listed below have made enormous contributions to the creation of this Guide, through their writing, dedicated hacking efforts, numerous e-mail and IRC support sessions, and overall excellent contribution to the Bugzilla community:

Matthew P. Barnson mbarnson@sisna.com

  for the Herculaean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide and shepherding it to 2.14.

Terry Weissman terry@mozilla.org

  for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.

Tara Hernandez tara@tequilarists.org

  for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left mozilla.org and for running landfill.

Dave Lawrence dkl@redhat.com

  for providing insight into the key differences between Red Hat's customized Bugzilla, and being largely responsible for .

Dawn Endico endico@mozilla.org

  for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools

Jacob Steenhagen jake@bugzilla.org

  for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development period and backporting relevent docs changes to this 2.16 branch.

Last but not least, all the members of the newsgroup. Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches, this could never have happened.

Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions to this documentation (in alphabetical order):

- Andrew Pearson
- Ben FrantzDale
- Eric Hanson
- Gervase Markham
- Joe Robins
- Kevin Brannen
- Ron Teitelbaum
- Spencer Smith
- Zach Liption

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