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On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 21:54, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> maillog: 01/05/2004-23:10:27(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types |
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> > On Saturday 01 May 2004 20:16, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > > maillog: 01/05/2004-19:20:02(+0200): Sven Vermeulen types |
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> > > |
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> > > Isn't that asking too much from the user? |
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> > > |
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> > > Maybe there can be a way to automate the process. It should be as simple as |
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> > > asking the user to supply the full package name in an easily parsable |
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> > > format. Looking up the maintainer is a machine's job, and a job that a |
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> > > machine can do well. As for how to do it... a script parsing the mail of |
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> > > bug-wranglers should suffice. |
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> > |
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> > This was the idea when the herds setup was originally thought out. |
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> > Unfortunately that didn't happen as bugzilla needs to be extended for it. It |
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> > shouldn't be difficult though. |
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> |
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> Not really. Bugzilla can be used "as-is", if for example the user is asked to |
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> write the name of the package as the first word of the summary field. A script |
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> can parse the e-mail received by bug-wranglers and work with the first word |
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> from the summary (foo/bar for example). |
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Or if we significantly rework the purpose of "Component" within the |
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Gentoo Linux "Product" to be package names. |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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