Hello, Am Mittwoch, 6. März 2013 schrieb Richard Brown:
On 6 March 2013 19:55, Christian Boltz
wrote:
BTW: One thing I forgot to mention is that we also have the
"bugreporter" package (a commandline tool IIRC).
Does anyone know how many people use it?
Hmm, I just tested it myself, and the result is:
cb@geeko:~> bugreporter
Welcome to the submit bug report module!
The user has stored credentials.
Connecting to Novell's Bugzilla...
[...]
Package name (or '?'): libqt4-x11
Package selected: libqt4
Please enter the bug summary (should be short!)
--> test bug
Summary entered: test bug
Looking for similar existing bug reports...
Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/bugzilla/base.py", line 1044,
in single_request_with_cookies
response.msg,
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError:
- We already have https://bugzilla.novell.com/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided (looks like the "normal" interface in the first step, but you'll see the difference after selecting a product)
I know, and it's 'not bad', and I suppose if nothing comes of this crazy idea then sticking with what we have is 'good enough'. But I'm not sure we should settle for good enough - seeing how LibreOffice have done it, with bright, clean, user friendly interface, which is as accessible as possible, I think it's worthwhile investigating at least. After all, bug reports don't just help us make openSUSE better, but new bug reporters have a habit of becoming new bug testers and fixers, and so the more friendly and welcoming we make those first contributions to the project, the better I think we'll have capturing, assimilating, and retaining new blood.
Fully agreed. Everything that makes contributing easier and more fun is a "good thing"[tm].
- unfortunately the bugzilla.novell.com admins are not really responsive. [...]
Ahh, yeah, I'm aware of the past issues we've had in this area. I have two thoughts on this 1. Just because things were terrible in the past doesn't mean they are now - a lots changed so this might be a good opportunity to reconnect and succeed where things failed in the past.
Usually I'm an optimist and really hope you are right, but in this specific case - hmm...
2. We might not need to worry about it anyway - If the Bug Submission Assistant works as advertised, it should be possible to host it wherever we like, and point it to BNC, without modifications needed to Bugzilla. This is actually how Libreoffice did it - their assistant is hosted on http://bugassistant.libreoffice.org while the bugzilla is on http://bugs.freedesktop.org.
OK, that would make things much easier.
The only problem I forsee here is that BNC's extensive modifications might get in the way, as freedesktop.org's bugzilla is pretty much 'vanilla'. If this happens though, I'd like to think that modifying the Assistant would be an option if getting modifications to BNC is not.
I'd guess/hope[1] that the assistant does _not_ fill the HTML form because that's just calling for trouble. bugzilla has a XMLRPC interface (the bugreporter package uses it [2]), and I seriously hope the XMLRPC interface on bnc is not customized ;-) Using this interface is probably the best way. Regards, Christian Boltz [1] no, I didn't check the code [2] well, at least it tries to use it ;-) --
P.S.: Ich habe soeben mutt über Bord geworfen und bin reumütig zu evolution zurückgekehrt. *Waaahhhhh* Ein Abtruenniger!!! Was is los??? [> Ratti und David Haller in suse-linux]
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