Re: [python-bugzilla] python-bugzilla mods for new bugzilla.redhat.com fields

[Jared Morgan]

Thanks very much Cole.

Lee Newson is making some final tweaks to his work locally, and will create some patches for you.

Cheers

Jared Morgan
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cole Robinson" 
> To: "python-bugzilla user/developer list" 
> Cc: "Jared Morgan" , "Isaac Rooskov" , "Scott Mumford"
> , "Lee Carlon" , "Lee Newson" 
> Sent: Saturday, 20 October, 2012 1:39:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [python-bugzilla] python-bugzilla mods for new bugzilla.redhat.com fields
>
> On 09/17/2012 08:27 PM, Jared Morgan wrote:
> > Hi there all.
> >
> > Firstly, thank you *so* much for this awesome tool.
> >
> > In Red Hat Engineering Content Services, we depend on this tool to
> > be able to extract Release Note content from Bugzilla. It saves us
> > days of hand-writing release notes in XML.
> >
> > We can edit the CCFR directly in bugzilla then export the contents
> > using a wrapper script around the python-bugzilla tool. The
> > wrapper script was initially devised by Lee Carlon, and has
> > recently undergone significant rework by Scott Mumford.
> >
> > With the recent changes to Bugzilla Release Note fields, I've had
> > to get some mods done to the fields the tool supports. Lee Newson
> > made these changes for us in short order so we could produce
> > release notes using the new fields to meet a GA deadline.
> >
> > Now the dust has settled, I wanted to share the work Lee Newson has
> > done to the python-bugzilla tool with the list.
> >
> > His email with an overview of mods done to the script is forwarded
> > below for reference.
> >
> > If you want to get your hands on these mods and implement them
> > officially in the tool, we would love to help make that happen.
> >
> > I think the mods Lee has done add real value to the already
> > excellent tool, and I feel it would benefit people who use other
> > bugzilla instances (maybe not the Doc_Type and Doc_Text fields
> > specifically, but certainly the Target_Release field).
> >
> > Hope you find this info interesting at a minimum, and worthy enough
> > to perhaps serve as a basic RFE with solution.
> >
> > Cheers, and thanks again for your work.
>
> Thanks for the info, I'd definitely like to see the patches, I'm sure
> we can
> get them or equivalent functionality available upstream.
>
> So you guys can either mail the patches here, or open a new fedora
> bug report
> and attach them there, or publish a git tree, etc. and I'll take a
> look.
>
> Thanks,
> Cole