August 26, 1998

Bugzilla 1.0 released

MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy..org released Bugzilla 1.0 on August 26, 1998 — an open-source bug-tracking system that became the template for web-based issue trackers.

What it was for

BugzillaBugzilla powered MozillaThe organization behind Firefox — advocates open web standards and internet privacy., Apache, and thousands of open-source projects before JiraAtlassian's issue tracker — workflows, boards, and JQL queries for software team project management. dominated enterprises. Its severity levels, dependency graphs, and email notifications defined how developers filed and triaged bugs online — the ancestor of every modern issue tracker UIUser interface — the parts of software people see and interact with..

Companies

  • Mozilla

Why it's here

Bugzilla was the open-source bug tracker every OSS project used before GitHubA platform for Git hosting, pull requests, and CI — the center of open-source collaboration. Issues.

Why it mattered

It established web-based bug workflows that JiraAtlassian's issue tracker — workflows, boards, and JQL queries for software team project management. and others later commercialized.

What it solved

Projects tracked bugs in mailing lists and text files with no shared searchable database.

Media

  • Bugzilla
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