Bug 55882 – Upgrade bugs.webkit.org to latest Bugzilla 5.0.3

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit Website

[Frédéric Buclin]

https://bugs.webkit.org/ is currently running Bugzilla 3.2.3, which reached EOL last month. You should upgrade to 4.0.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Some notes for anyone looking into this:

Bugzilla on bugs.webkit.org has a number of local modifications (which aren't always identified by comments) that must be merged into a new version and then qualified in a test environment before being deployed.  The custom templates are the most difficult to merge because they're not modified in place, so the changes have to be reapplied to new copies of the updated templates.

Many of the local modifications should have bugs (enhancement requests) filed on <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> so that we can eventually get out of the business of local modifications to make upgrades easier.

There are some notes here on how to upgrade, but it may be easier to take a diff of the changes against 3.2.3 and then apply them to 4.0:  <http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UpdatingBugzilla>.

After it's deployed, there is usually fallout from the UI changing in the form of complaints, and you'll rarely get any accolades for finishing the update.  (Just something to look forward to. :)

[Frédéric Buclin]

Would you agree to attach a diff of the bugs.webkit.org code vs vanilla Bugzilla 3.2.3? I'm wondering how much code could be moved into an extension (which would save you a lot of trouble every time you want to upgrade).

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla 4.2 has been released this week. It has many security improvements compared to 3.x.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

How would someone who doesn't work at Apple attempt such an upgrade?  It seems we'd need access to the server?  (This bug came up again today in discussing why webkit-patch is so slow... one of the reasons being it talks to bugzilla via page scraping.)

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> How would someone who doesn't work at Apple attempt such an upgrade?  It seems we'd need access to the server?  (This bug came up again today in discussing why webkit-patch is so slow... one of the reasons being it talks to bugzilla via page scraping.)

The bulk of the work is doing the merge and cleaning up conflicts, then fixing any issues that occurred as a result of the merge.  You could perform the merge, set up a test server, and then make sure basic functionality works, then commit the changes to a branch or generate a patch.

Having said that, I'm going to attempt to upgrade Bugzilla during the WebKit Contributors Meeting.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Having said that, I'm going to attempt to upgrade Bugzilla during the WebKit Contributors Meeting.

Status update:  I've merged the changes up to v4.2.1, but I need to shake out merge issues on a test instance of Bugzilla.  Due to various scheduling issues, I won't be able to work on this for a couple of weeks.  Will get back to it as soon as possible.

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Fantastic!  Thank you for looking at this Dave!

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

*** Bug 82632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Working on this now at the WebKit Contributors Meeting.

[Frédéric Buclin]

Bugzilla 4.4 has been upgraded meanwhile.

[Frédéric Buclin]

And 4.4.1 includes several security fixes.

Any progress since your last comment 9?

[Csaba Osztrogonác]

As far as I know, we still use 4.2.11. 

4.2.16 is the latest and the last relase of 4.2.x
since 4.2.x reached of its EOL on 2015 Dec 22:
https://www.bugzilla.org/news/

[Csaba Osztrogonác]

Any interest to upgrade bugzilla to a still supported version?

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Testing upgrade of Bugzilla 5.0.3.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

<rdar://problem/22524280>

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

*** Bug 167052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Bugzilla has been upgraded to version 5.0.3.