* [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-Bugger is looking for testers :-)
@ 2004-09-12 12:29 Michael Cummings
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From: Michael Cummings @ 2004-09-12 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw
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GENTOO-BUGGER IS NOT AN OFFICIAL GENTOO PROJECT
Sorry for the caps, but I wanted that to be clear from the start so there
wasn't any confusion. I'm looking for testers of gentoo-bugger. Anyone
interested please give it a whirl, report any bugs, complaints, RFF's, etc.
Please email me directly with questions - I'm subscribed to -dev, but am
horrible at reading my mailing list mail in a timely fashion.
What is it?
Gentoo-Bugger is a commandline, perl application for interfacing
with an existing bugzilla account on Gentoo's Bug server.
Gentoo-Bugger does not create an account for you; it could, but at
this time that seems like a bad idea (easily abused). Gentoo-Bugger
simulates a web connection to the bugzilla server, allowing you to
create new bugs, edit (if you're a dev?) existing bugs, show bugs,
upload attachments, download attachments, etc., etc., etc. Pretty
much *almost* all of the functionality you have with a web browser,
but on the command line in one shot fashion. In addition, bugger
will support multiple accounts for bugzilla. The idea here is that
it could potentially be used with other bugzilla systems (this is
neither tested nor confirmed, and known not to be true in the case
of mozilla's bugzilla system). Its a theory anyway.
Why?
There are users and devs out there, and you know who you are, who
need to be able to access bugs quickly, update a bug fast, without
the overhead and interface of a web browser.
Where?
http://gentoo-bugger.sourceforge.net
You will want to download the gentoo-bugger-testing package. This is
in fact newer than the point release listed and contains additions
and fixes not found elsewhere (heh).
What else?
The real "functionality" of Gentoo-Bugger is all located in a perl
module. So if you know perl, and feel like hacking away at figuring
out how my brain works, and how poorly I can write a module, the
perl module itself (installs into the Gentoo::Bugger namespace) can
be used for other purposes, such as pulling and rdf feed from your
current bugs, generating calender items, etc. Some of this will be
released in sample code eventually (one project at a time), but for
the intrepid masochist the raw tool is there now. Gentoo-Bugger is
an adaptation of Andy Lester's WWW::Bugzilla module, so if you are
familiar with the source for that, you will see some repetition. The
reason for the departure is that WWW::Bugzilla was designed for the
creation and editing of bugs only - Gentoo::Bugger is a little
broader in scope, with the intention of truly interacting with the
bugzilla system.
What do you need to install it?
dev-perl/WWW-Mechanize-1* (tested with 1.0301 and 1.02)
dev-perl/HTML-Strip
dev-perl/config-general
Is there an ebuild?
Not yet. There will be one once this is out of testing, and it will
be submitted to the tree in the traditional fashion - via bugzilla,
for review by other devs. Hubris is a beautiful thing, so I don't
feel comfortable being both the author and a dev to handle its
review for portage.
Bug reporting?
Do NOT report bugs about this on bugs.gentoo.org. It's not in
portage. It's not fair to any one else on the perl team (or other
affected teams). Please report all bugs on sourceforge in the
project's area.
Any known bugs?
Not really that I am aware of. 2 "missing features" (not really
bugs) are
1) Help page mentions a tk invocation. This is not available yet due
to drastic changes in the original architecture. I have to start
that part over again (if there is even interest)
2) It needs better error messages. Sometimes its informative,
sometimes not.
Ok, I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any questions, and
thanks for reading such a long ramble :)
-Mike
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