BMO/Hacking

Hacking On BMO

Overview

BMO is running a customised version of Bugzilla, currently (5th March 2013) sitting on top of Bugzilla version 4.2.

All source is maintained in BZR, http://bzr.mozilla.org/bmo/4.2/files

We use Apache's web server, and MySQL's database.

Setting up a development environment

• Follow the instructions to install Bugzilla 4.2: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.2/en/html/installing-bugzilla.html
  • For section 2.1.4, check the source out of bzr://bzr.mozilla.org/bmo/4.2 instead of the upstream repository
  • Setting up an environment is basically a matter of:
    1. Check out the source
    2. Configure Apache HTTPd (I suggest you use mod_cgi not mod_perl)
    3. Create an empty database in MySQL, and create a MySQL account with appropriate grants
    4. Run checksetup.pl and follow the instructions
• Once installed, in addition to the normal parameters (urlbase, email, ...) configure the following parameters via the web UI:
  • allow_attachment_display => 1,
  • defaultpriority => '--',
  • defaultseverity => 'normal',
  • specific_search_allow_empty_words => 0,
  • timetrackinggroup => ,
  • upgrade_notification => 'disabled',
  • usebugaliases => 1,
  • useclassification => 1,
  • useqacontact => 1,
  • user_info_class => 'BrowserID,CGI',
  • usestatuswhiteboard => 1,
  • usetargetmilestone => 1,

Obtaining a copy of the BMO database

You can request a sanitised copy of the BMO database, which makes developing and testing significantly easier, by going to download a copy of the latest (January 2013) public database. This is temporarily kept here:

http://people.mozilla.org/~mhoye/bugzilla/

Security and confidential bugs are removed from this version.

Developer vagrant box

We also provide a ready-to-use developer box using vagrant.