[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Wed Dec 22 00:32:32 CET 2010

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 17:07, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>
+> Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 17:05 +0100, Dexter Morgan a écrit :
+> > I would like to have your input to let us able to provide a bugzilla really soon
+>
+> So if I am not wrong, in bugzilla, we have :
+> - products
+> - component, contained in products
+> - and various field, per bug,
+>
+> and the way we organize everything will impact the layout.
+>
+
+Yes.
+
+In preparation of the future interaction (by xmlrpc) between the
+mageia-app-db site and the mageia bugzilla,  I have been testing
+http://bugs.mageia.org/ .
+Xmlrpc works, but it will be necessary to configure additional fields.
+The minimum would be to add an 'RPM Package' field (such as exists on
+https://qa.mandriva.com/).
+
+But, as the configuration must be modified anyway, I have been
+thinking about what fields we need.
+
+First I think it would be usefull to have a multiline (Large Text Box)
+'RPM Packages' field, instead of a single line (Free Text) field as
+used by mandriva.
+A single bug can concern more than one rpm. One thing mageia-app-db
+will do is search all bugs affecting an rpm. For that search to be
+meaningfull all affected rpms should be mentioned.
+For the same reason, the way the rpms are mentioned should be 'standardised',
+as the search done by bugzilla can only be litteral.
+
+Something that does not exist in mandriva, but I think would be usefull, is a
+'Fixed RPM Packages' that would be filled when the bug is fixed. FIXED
+is great, but where (or since which rpm)?
+
+Perhaps also an 'Upstream' field which would, eventually, indicate
+where that bug is filed upstream.
+
+Finally the "status whiteboard" could be enabled, and used to clearly
+explain a workaround, for open bugs (instead of having to figure it
+from the comments). (Eventually this field could also be used as the
+'Fixed RPM Packages' field when the bug is closed. So it would be the
+'Solution' field)
+
+Apart from the "status whiteboard" which is a parameter to enable
+(http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/parameters.html);
+the fields must be added as custom-fields
+(http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/3.6/en/html/custom-fields.html)
+
+
+-- 
+
+Frederic
+