On 4/10/12 11:17 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:45:14PM +0200, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> On 4/10/12 7:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>>> I can name a couple of issues that are api limitations that we can't do
>>> anything about:
>>> - you can't search on cc: or keywords fields.
>> That's going to be a problem for arch testing needs (e.g. STABLEREQ
>> keyword and x86@ cc-ed). How about doing the searches "the old way" that
>> allowed the above.
> 
> That is not so easy to do since we have completely gotten rid of the old
> method of communicating with bugzilla. That method was not reliable and
> had broken several times with bugzilla upgrades, but using the web
> services will be more stable.

Right, scraping HTML that way was obviously brittle, but at least it
worked (in the pragmatic sense). Without that functionality, the
batch-stabilization tools I and other devs use would be broken.

If possible, please restore the old code, possibly marked as deprecated
and not officially supported (best effort, patches welcome is fine), and
named maybe search_brittle or something similar.