2. Thandesha
http://thandesha.blogspot.com
2
Without P4DTGWithout P4DTG
No tight coupling between perforce and
Bugzilla
Bug numbers entered are not validated.
They are just numbers; not BUG NUMBERS.
Submit change number is manually entered into
Bugzilla
Not everybody does it as they have other urgent/better
tasks to do
Error prone
Buried inside comments
Integration not recording merged fixes
Data mining is hard
3. Thandesha
http://thandesha.blogspot.com
3
Integrate Bugzilla with Perforce
saves 100 of man hours every month
Most* of the BUG data from bugzilla is hot replicated to perforce and vice
versa.
It is not a choice to use invalid BUG number. It is given!s
Add any number of Bug’s while submitting
Choose the state of the bug while submitting
Submit change number is automatically updated to Bugzilla in a separate
field
Weblink (p4web) in Bugzilla to browse the fix details
What are the bugs fixed by change <change_number>?
P4 fixes –c <change_number>
What are all the change numbers fixing the BUG <bug_number>?
P4 fixes -j <bug_number>
What bugs are fixed b/w two dates or change numbers in a branch?
p4 fixes <file_path>@<range>
