92818 - CHANGES file is hopelessly outdated

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P1)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The "CHANGES" file in the Bugzilla distribution has not been updated since 1999.
 It should either be deleted or be redone with links to whereever it is we store
this information nowadays (just like we updated the README file last milestone).

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This file needs to stay in the archive for people upgrading from versions 2.6 and 
older.  They need to do everything listed in this file before they run 
checksetup.pl for the first time, because checksetup.pl didn't exist yet at that 
time.  However, if it's not clear already, it should be made clear that's the 
purpose of the file, and it should be mentioned in the readme....

Comment 2

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I will add something about this into the release notes.  We need to rename this
file to something like "CHANGES-pre-2.8".

Let's make sure we have this right though.  2.10 was the first version that had
checksetup.pl?  In other words, anyone upgrading from 2.8 or later is covered by
checksetup.pl?  And you only have to make changes before checksetup.pl if
you're  running 2.6 or earlier?

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I *believe* (not positive) that thanks to the efforts of some other people 
upgrading, that checksetup.pl will upgrade anything from version 2.5 onwards.  It 
was not in the distribution until 2.10, but has had changes made to it since then 
to allow it to upgrade earlier versions.  I'm pretty sure 2.5 is the earliest 
version it supports.  I would probably leave the "pre-2.8" designation on the 
file anyway, just to play it safe.

Comment 4

[Matthew Barnson]

Changed name to "UPGRADING-pre-2.8".

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving to Bugzilla product