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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:47:52
Message-Id: 20110307154710.GA22974@comet.mayo.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla 4 migration by Dirkjan Ochtman
1 On 16:35 Mon 07 Mar , Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 15:13, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Thanks! One thing I've been very interested about in 3.x and 4.x is API
4 > > access that's better than screen-scraping. I tried using the
5 > > python-bugzilla client that accesses Bugzilla via XML-RPC but it didn't
6 > > seem to work. Do we have anything available?
7 >
8 > Is that the one you get if you emerge pybugz?
9
10 No, pybugz is a screen-scraper. We previously had Bugzilla 2 so we
11 couldn't do anything else.
12
13 > The Mozilla guys made a pretty nice REST API that can be installed as a
14 > plugin, I think. Maybe we could run that?
15
16 I've been somewhat following that too, but I don't know if anyone's
17 written a CLI client for it yet, whereas python-bugzilla already exists
18 (and has an ebuild in the sabayon overlay).
19
20 --
21 Thanks,
22 Donnie
23
24 Donnie Berkholz
25 Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
26 Blog: http://dberkholz.com