Closed Bug 230742 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Document new "hooks" mechanism

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(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect, P2)

2.17.3

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RESOLVED FIXED
Bugzilla 2.18

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(Reporter: gerv, Assigned: myk)

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The new hooks mechanism, from bug 229658, requires documenting so that
organisations and companies extending Bugzilla can make good use of it. 

Gerv
Severity: normal → major
Priority: -- → P2
Target Milestone: --- → Bugzilla 2.18
I checked in a modified version to the customisation part of the guide. Feel
free to look and edit it some more. It certainly needs work to clarify that both
extensions and custom have hooks, for different purposes.

Checking in customization.xml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/xml/customization.xml,v  <-- 
customization.xml
new revision: 1.2; previous revision: 1.1
done

Gerv
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Thanks Gerv.  I've checked in an update that among other things adds a note
explaining hooks' applicability to installation customizers.  It remains to be
seen how useful hooks will be for that constituency, and since support for
customizers was a side-effect of the hooks architecture rather than its
principal goal, advertising it even more would probably place too much emphasis
on that potential use, especially before we get at least one report back from an
installation that tried it.  We should mention it in passing when we advertise
the feature in the "what's new" section of the release notes, though, with the
caveat about its side-effectness and a request for feedback from customizers
that try it.
It looks like the documentation has gotten a bit ahead of the implementation.  I
went to look for the hook in the example and could not find it.

I will make a point of locating some of the UI customizations I have made and
will  suggest some hooks that would have worked for me.
Joel: bug 232908 filed for that issue.

Gerv
QA Contact: matty_is_a_geek → default-qa
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