[Mageia-dev] New bugzilla proposal

Fri Jan 7 18:41:26 CET 2011

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 17:49, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
+>
+> Frederic Janssens a écrit :
+>
+>>
+>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 06:19, andre999<andr55 at laposte.net>  wrote:
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> As for documentation and translations, a while back I suggested a similar separation, but on reflection I think it would be more useful to have flags :
+>>>
+>>> 1) problem with documentation (and not function)
+>>> These bugs would be best corrected by those with good documentation skills, not necessarily the average programmmer.
+>>>
+>>> 2) problem with translation (and not function)
+>>> These bugs would be best corrected by technical translators for the language in question.  Again, not necessarily the average programmer.
+>>>
+>>
+>> I am working on a script intended to make it easyer to report bugs usefully.
+>>
+>> Technically, would these flags be new fields,
+>> or standardized entries in the Keywords field,
+>> such as NEEDINFO in the present Mandriva bugzilla ?
+>
+>
+> Just verified with bugzilla to make sure.
+>
+> Documentation and translations are listed as options under "components".
+> However any such bug could also be associated with another component, such as "core packages" or "release media".
+> We could even have translation bugs of documentation.
+>
+> So it would seem better if these were independant flags, instead of options.
+> It that case they would be new fields.
+>
+> As for security, there are already 2 such flags, at the bottom of the main bug entry page.  (Under the title "privacy".)
+> Checking either of these flags will cause a bug to be hidden from most users, as explained beside the check boxes.
+> (For this reason, it would be better to _not_ duplicate these particular flags elsewhere.)
+>
+> see https://qa.mandriva.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mandriva Linux&format=guided
+
+The potential problem with new fields, which would be better,
+would be to make shure that they are accessible with the xmlrpc interface,
+that I use for my script.
+
+The inbuilt Keywords field, which does not appear on the Mandriva
+'guided' input page,
+but does appear on the 'expert' input page, is accessible with the
+xmlrpc interface.
+
+The xmlrpc interface does not seem to automatically have access to all fields.
+But it is difficult to be shure : the xmlrpc interface of Mandriva
+bugzilla does not work;
+and the Mageia  bugzilla only has the default fields at present.
+I think I will have to create a local bugzilla to test that.
+
+> Good luck with your script :)
+
+Thanks
+
+> André
+-- 
+
+Frederic
+