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New Features:

Support for Bugzilla 4.0 (see section 5.1.1 of the documentation)
Cumulative Charts (see section 4.3 of the documentation)

BugzillaMetrics 1.0 released!

BugzillaMetrics 1.0 RC1 has been released.

New Features include:
-Static links to metric result pages
-Static links to metric calculations
-Page title changes when results are displayed

The new version is based on the Google Web Toolkit 1.6

BugzillaMetrics is a tool for the evaluation of change request metrics. Its main characteristics are the specification of metrics by the users, an event driven algorithm, transparent execution optimization and an abstraction of its data sources.

New Features

-Servlet-based authentication
-Refined expressiveness of IntervalLength and StateResidence Calculator
-Transition Filter with regular expressions... read more

New Features include:
-Support for Postgres
-Additional Operations (sumAboveThreshold, sumBelowThreshold)
-Evaluation of additional fields (cc, ccCount)

New features include:
-Compatibility to Bugzilla 3.2
-Optional integration for metric evaluation based on CVS/Subversion
-Support for new custom field types (DateTime, MultiSelect, LargeTextBox)

Visit the BugzillaMetrics demo server on http://demo.bugzillametrics.org/

New features include:
-new format of the settings file
-new weights (dependsOn, blocks, votes, daysBeyondDeadline)
-floating point results when calculating time intervals in days

Bug fixes:
-Support for custom fields of type drop-down.

New features include:
Evaluation of flag history.
User-defined time periods (e.g. for release cycles or business years).
Additional operations.

BugzillaMetrics 0.9.2 has been released. New features include:

-Filtering by flags
-Filtering based on regular expressions
-Filtering by custom fields
-Evaluation by additional field (commenter, reporter, qa_contact, keywords)
-Additional Operations (Threshold for Interval Length Calculations, Count unique cases, Winsorized Mean)
-Configurable base filter widget
-Compatibility with Firefox3

BugzillaMetrics 0.9.1 Release Notes

New Features:
-Link to bug lists of Bugzilla
-Excel and HTML export of metric result
-User Documentation
-Improved "My Queries" display
-Activity Indicator
-Calculations can be canceled
-Product Classifications supported by Frontend

Upgrading from 0.9 to 0.9.1
In order to display links to bug lists, common metrics and saved queries needs to be updated.
Saved queries can be updated by reloading each metric and saving it again.
The common metrics will be updated by dropping the "metrics" table and creating it again with the sql statements given in "setup_bugzillametricsDB.sql".

The new release offers an advanced web interface for the definition of metrics by the user without using XML.
Additionally installation support is improved by an automatic selftest of the proper server configuration.