1146960 - replace the version number on bmo with a build number

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

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the version number on bmo is problematic:
- it isn't accurate
- it can lead to confusion when determining what features we have (eg. api)

bmo is currently reporting to be "4.2.11+", when really it's "4.2, with lots of changes from 4.4, 5.0, and later, plus a swag of mozilla specific modifications".

that's probably too wordy to have as a version number, so a build id would be better.

we should:
- add a parameter which overrides the BUGZILLA_VERSION constant
- update the push process to add a note to set that to yyyymmdd
- make the version number on index.cgi a link to the recent-changes wiki page

this scheme would make the current BUGZILLA_VERSION "20150323".

Comment 1

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Nit: maybe we can do "2015-03-23" or "2015.03.23" or something that makes it very simple to figure out the last push date at a quick glance.

Comment 2

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Attachment: 1146960_1.patch

- adds param to 'general' page to override version
- fallsback to "4.2+" if parameter is not set
- in index.html.tmpl we have to hit the param directly, because tt will inline constants.BUGZILLA_VERSION into the compiled template

Comment 3

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 8585939 [details] [diff] [review]
1146960_1.patch

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Comment 4

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To ssh://[e-mail]/webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git
   50a1473..280c184  master -> master

Comment 5

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

> - make the version number on index.cgi a link to the recent-changes wiki page

Doesn't seem that we did this point.  Also, should this not be a link on every page that display the version?

Comment 6

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

(In reply to Mark Côté [:mcote] from comment #5)
> > - make the version number on index.cgi a link to the recent-changes wiki page
> 
> Doesn't seem that we did this point.  Also, should this not be a link on
> every page that display the version?

i will file a bug and fix the link to the wiki. i do not feel we need the version number on all
pages though. home page only is also the way upstream currently does it.

dkl

Comment 7

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Yeah never mind about the all-pages part; for some reason I was thinking we display the version on all pages already, and I didn't think we should be linking in some places and not others.