What do we need from Bugzilla? (was: My roadmap for a better Fedora)

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 16:00:55 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Emmanuel Seyman
<emmanuel.seyman at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> * Les Mikesell [21/11/2008 15:16] :
>>
>> If someone does this right, maybe it would be possible to cascade all
>> the way up from user/site/enterprise instances and a working version
>
> It could be done. This is why so much work has been done on the XML-RPC
> workings for Bugzilla 3.2.
>
>> included in the distribution would have templates for all the packages
>> and a checkbox for whether or not to push a specific entry upstream or
>> not.
>
> Deciding to push a bug upstream or not cannot be reduced to checking a
> box or pushing a button. You need to search the upstream bug tracker
> before submitting and link your bug to an already existing bug in
> upstream if it already exists, fill in new fields and make sure that
> the fields that are dropped don't make the bug incomprehensible.
>
> Emmanuel


Wait, there is already an XML-RPC extension? My (possible) time may be
better spent building a UI then?

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