Bugzilla 6 Backend Roadmap

What can we do before the release of Bugzilla 6.0 in (August) 2018?

PSGI Support

• Re-create the PSGI support that was added by LpSolit to the bugzilla master branch.
• Provides an (so far undocumented) Bugzilla::Extension hook for adding to the plack builder env. This is used by the bzapi extension for instance.
• init_page() is called within a CGI context.
• CGI::Compile is loaded early to prevent spontaneous exits
• Merge into BMO (ensure it does not cause regressions for mod_perl consumers)
• Verify (somehow) that all paths handled by apache are handled by PSGI

Performance

• Preload all templates into memory
• (mod_perl only) don't stat .htaccess files
• Replace Bugzilla::Object id() and name() accessors with Class::XSAccessor Bug 1273381
• Use HTML::Escape #322
• use Sereal for the database schema

Installation

• Checksetup is replaced with separate database migration scripts, etc
• Easy to install for ubuntu, fedora, and archlinux users

Upgrades

• Upgrading from 4.2 works
• Upgrading from 5.0 works
• Upgrading from 5.1 (e.g. master on bugzilla/bugzilla repo) works