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<title>About This Guide</title>

  <section id="copyright">
    <title>Copyright Information</title>
    <blockquote>
      <attribution>Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Matthew P. Barnson and &bzg-auth;</attribution>
      <para>
	Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
	document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
	License, Version 1.1 or any later version published  by the
	Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
	Front-Cover Texts, and  with no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of
	the license is included in <xref linkend="gfdl"/>.
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    </blockquote>
    <para>
      If you have any questions regarding this document, its
      copyright, or publishing this document in non-electronic form,
      please contact &bzg-auth;. 
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  </section>

  <section id="disclaimer">
    <title>Disclaimer</title>
    <para>
      No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted.
      Use the concepts, examples, and other content at your own risk.
      This document may contain errors
      and inaccuracies that may damage your system, cause your partner 
      to leave you, your boss to fire you, your cats to
      pee on your furniture and clothing, and global thermonuclear
      war. Proceed with caution.
    </para>
    <para>
      All copyrights are held by their respective owners, unless
      specifically noted otherwise.  Use of a term in this document
      should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any
      trademark or service mark.
    </para>
    <para>
      Naming of particular products or brands should not be seen as
      endorsements, with the exception of the term "GNU/Linux".  We
      wholeheartedly endorse the use of GNU/Linux in every situation
      where it is appropriate.  It is an extremely versatile, stable,
      and robust operating system that offers an ideal operating
      environment for Bugzilla.
    </para>
    <para>
      You are strongly recommended to make a backup of your system
      before installing Bugzilla and at regular intervals thereafter.
      If you implement any suggestion in this Guide, implement this one!
    </para>
    <para>
      Although the Bugzilla development team has taken great care to
      ensure that all easily-exploitable bugs or options are
      documented or fixed in the code, security holes surely exist.
      Great care should be taken both in the installation and usage of
      this software. Carefully consider the implications of installing
      other network services with Bugzilla.  The Bugzilla development
      team members, Netscape Communications, America Online Inc., and
      any affiliated developers or sponsors assume no liability for
      your use of this product.  You have the source code to this
      product, and are responsible for auditing it yourself to ensure
      your security needs are met.
    </para>
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    <para>
      This is the &bz-ver; version of The Bugzilla Guide. It is so named 
      to match the current version of Bugzilla. 
      <![%bz-devel;[
        This version of the guide, like its associated Bugzilla version is a
        development version. Information is subject to change between now and
        when &bz-nextver; is released.
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      If you are
      reading this from any source other than those below, please
      check one of these mirrors to make sure you are reading an
      up-to-date version of the Guide.
    </para>
    <para>
      The newest version of this guide can always be found at <ulink
      url="http://www.bugzilla.org">bugzilla.org</ulink>; including
      documentation for past releases and the current development version.
    </para>
    <para>
      The documentation for the most recent stable release of Bugzilla can also
      be found at
      <ulink url="http://www.tldp.org">The Linux Documentation Project</ulink>.
    </para>
    <para>
      The latest version of this document can always be checked out via CVS.
	    Please follow the instructions available at 
      <ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html">the Mozilla CVS page</ulink>,
      and check out the <filename>mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/</filename>
      subtree.
    </para>
    <para>
      The Bugzilla Guide is currently only available in English. 
      If you would like to volunteer to translate it, please contact
      <ulink url="mailto:justdave@syndicomm.com">Dave Miller</ulink>.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="credits">
    <title>Credits</title>
    <para>
      The people listed below have made enormous contributions to the
      creation of this Guide, through their writing, dedicated hacking efforts,
      numerous e-mail and IRC support sessions, and overall excellent
      contribution to the Bugzilla community:
    </para>

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      <varlistentry>
        <term>Matthew P. Barnson <email>mbarnson@sisna.com</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for the Herculaean task of pulling together the Bugzilla Guide
          and shepherding it to 2.14.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>Terry Weissman <email>terry@mozilla.org</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for initially writing Bugzilla and creating the README upon
          which the UNIX installation documentation is largely based.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>Tara Hernandez <email>tara@tequilarists.org</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for keeping Bugzilla development going strong after Terry left
          mozilla.org and for running landfill.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>Dave Lawrence <email>dkl@redhat.com</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for providing insight into the key differences between Red
          Hat's customized Bugzilla, and being largely responsible for
          <xref linkend="variant-redhat"/>.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>Dawn Endico <email>endico@mozilla.org</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for being a hacker extraordinaire and putting up with Matthew's
          incessant questions and arguments on irc.mozilla.org in #mozwebtools
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>Jacob Steenhagen <email>jake@bugzilla.org</email></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>for taking over documentation during the 2.17 development
          period.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>
      Last but not least, all the members of the 
      <ulink url="news://news.mozilla.org/netscape/public/mozilla/webtools"/>
      newsgroup.  Without your discussions, insight, suggestions, and patches,
      this could never have happened.
    </para>
    <para>
      Thanks also go to the following people for significant contributions 
      to this documentation (in alphabetical order):
      <simplelist type="inline">
        <member>Andrew Pearson</member>
        <member>Ben FrantzDale</member>
        <member>Eric Hanson</member>
        <member>Gervase Markham</member>
        <member>Joe Robins</member>
        <member>Kevin Brannen</member>
        <member>Ron Teitelbaum</member>
        <member>Spencer Smith</member>
        <member>Zach Liption</member>
      </simplelist>
      .
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