[ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.6 Upgrade Public Beta

[James Laska]

I am sending this on behalf of Dave Lawrence and the bugzilla team at
Red Hat.  Please forward this on to any appropriate lists that were
missed.

>  Greetings,
>  
>  The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta
>  release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the 
>  upstream 3.6 code base.
>  
>  Please test drive at:
>  
>       https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com
>  
>  Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla
>  to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the 
>  upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them
>  in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization 
>  footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes &
>  enhancements.
>  
>  The main area of focus for our public betas is stability.
>  Functionality that currently works in our 3.4 code base should
>  continue to 
>  work as expected in the new 3.6 release. These include various ajax
>  optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product 
>  browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the XMLRPC
>  API.
>  
>  Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party
>  applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure 
>  they continue to function properly.
>  
>  There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't
>  listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people 
>  have come to expect in 3.4 is possible in the new system.
>  
>  There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the
>  upstream 3.6 release. For more detailed information on what has 
>  changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at
>  https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html .
>  
>  The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be
>  useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed 
>  properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to
>  test for any performance related issues. Email has been 
>  disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to
>  make changes to bugs to verify proper working order.
>  
>  We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with
>  testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this 
>  the most robust and stable release possible.
>  
>  Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current
>  Bugzilla system at https://bugzilla.redhat.com . File them under 
>  the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.6. With
>  everyone's help we can make this a great release.
>  
>  Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team