BzDeck

A useful experimental Bugzilla client demonstrating modern Web application technologies such as CSS3, DOM4, HTML5, ECMAScript 6 and WAI-ARIA.

• BzDeck
• Introducing BzDeck
• BzDeck FAQ
• FlareTail.js integrated as a submodule
• We are on Facebook, Twitter and Google+

Update: We have decided to abandon BzDeck and instead bring all the UX innovations to Bugzilla to help make it a modernized, productive, competitive issue tracking system. See our Project Update for details.

How to run the app locally

BzDeck is mostly written in static HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but you need PHP as well to combine CSS/JavaScript files and handle the authentication explained below with a SQLite database.

Note that sqlite is provided by the php-pdo package on many RPM-based distros.

Apache + PHP

Nothing special, just set up a normal local server.

1. Fork this repository
2. Add a new virtual host in your Apache config as below
3. Add a new host in your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 local.bzdeck.com
4. Restart your Apache server with PHP 5.4+ enabled
5. Open http://local.bzdeck.com/ in your browser

Apache config example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName local.bzdeck.com
  DocumentRoot "/path/to/bzdeck/webroot/"
</VirtualHost>

PHP only

If you want to run a local development server without Apache, do the following:

1. Install PHP >= 5.4.0 (e.g. In Ubuntu 14.04: sudo apt-get install php5)
2. Run bin/run_dev_server.sh
3. Open your browser (Firefox Developer Edition or Firefox Nightly), go to http://localhost:8000

Sign in

Due to the updated Authentication Delegation implementation that requires 2 HTTP requests, it's now difficult to sign in to Bugzilla with a local server through the standard process. However, you can still sign in programmatically by entering the following code to the browser's Web Console:

BzDeck.controllers.session.verify_account('(Server ID)', '(Your Bugzilla ID)', '(Your API key)');

The server ID will be mozilla-dev (testing) or mozilla (production). Your API key can be generated on the Preferences page of each Bugzilla instance.

Debug mode

Append ?debug=true to any BzDeck URL to enable the debug mode. All the JavaScript files will be served separately and some debug messages will get dumped.

If some API tests are required, a Bugzilla instance for testing is available at bugzilla-dev.allizom.org. Ask your password on IRC or sign in with your GitHub account. Once a new API key is generated on the Preferences page, sign out from BzDeck and load the app again by appending ?debug=true&server=dev to the URL.