Closed Bug 1040074 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Bugzilla entry pages should display the bugzilla version number

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
Creating/Changing Bugs
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: ac, Unassigned)

Details

I just submitted a bug related to bugzilla bug entry. The bug form asked me for a version number. I have no way to know. The bugzilla entry page should display a bugzilla version number so I can fill out the 'version' field in the bug entry form. cheers, ~adrian
It's not necessarily the version of Bugzilla you are currently using. In fact, it's not necessarily a Bugzilla version. There are other ways to obtain a version of certain Bugzilla install.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Lol. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040071 for why I filed the bug in the first place.
Workaround: Click the "XML" link at the bottom, see the first line which is <bugzilla version="4.2.9+" urlbase="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/" ... here
the version number is displayed on the index page in most installations. eg. top right of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
That's lovely, pretty much what I was expecting---a simple string with the version number. Looks like there is already space in the header for it... If you don't want to expose that info on every page, then the more general setup might be to have some link 'About this bugzilla' or some such that points to a page of info about the installation. The 'About' or 'Info' labels are needed to distinguish meta-information from the regular web site. Having the info in the first link is cool, and totally reasonable, but would have taken quite some time to occur to me. Indeed, that page is really functional not a page about the installation; the fact it shows the version string on that page only is kind of arbitrary. The 'XML' link would be one of the last places I look for it. At the bottom of the page there is a nice 'privacy policy', nothing prevents an 'Installation info' down there as well.
(In reply to Adrian Custer from comment #5) > At the bottom of the page there is a nice 'privacy policy' That's entirely custom to the bugzilla.mozilla.org instance and is not part of Bugzilla.
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