bugzilla subcomponent questions

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 18:57:11 UTC 2013


On 12/06/2013 04:35 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> bugzilla.redhat.com has rolled out support for subcomponents in their
> latest update. 
> 
> See: 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/bugzilla-announce-list/2013-December/msg00000.html
> for more info
> 
> I suspect we will have some packages that will want to take advantage
> of these. I know the kernel maintainers have expressed interest in it.
> In their case, they want to be able to put bugs (or have them just
> filed in) subcomponents with different owner/cc lists. 
> 
> So, I'd like to collect questions and gather information from
> maintainers on what they would use this for and get FESCo to look at
> the policy issues before we implement anything. 
> 

<snip>

> 
> Implementation: 
> 
> - pkgdb2 is close to a early release, do we want to try and add support
>   for subcomponents before we release it? Or just push it later in a
>   update/point release? In any case we might think about how to make
>   implementing things easier now even if we don't implement anything
>   now. 
> 
> - If we don't implement now, is there some hacky way we can still do
>   things for a limited number of components? Like say the kernel?
> 
> - We will need to modify our sync to bugzilla scripts to handle
>   subcomponents. Not sure how much work this will be. ;( 
> 

FWIW I don't think creating subcomponents is exposed in the XMLRPC API yet, so
pkgdb can't do much at the moment.

I'm sure rhbz guys will be happy to add it upon request so it is definitely
worth thinking about for future UI.

- Cole


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