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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation explaining metadata.xml to users wrt bugs?
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 01:54:42
Message-Id: 20040502015434.GA10926@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Documentation explaining metadata.xml to users wrt bugs? by Paul de Vrieze
1 maillog: 01/05/2004-23:10:27(+0200): Paul de Vrieze types
2 > On Saturday 01 May 2004 20:16, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
3 > > maillog: 01/05/2004-19:20:02(+0200): Sven Vermeulen types
4 > >
5 > > Isn't that asking too much from the user?
6 > >
7 > > Maybe there can be a way to automate the process. It should be as simple as
8 > > asking the user to supply the full package name in an easily parsable
9 > > format. Looking up the maintainer is a machine's job, and a job that a
10 > > machine can do well. As for how to do it... a script parsing the mail of
11 > > bug-wranglers should suffice.
12 >
13 > This was the idea when the herds setup was originally thought out.
14 > Unfortunately that didn't happen as bugzilla needs to be extended for it. It
15 > shouldn't be difficult though.
16
17 Not really. Bugzilla can be used "as-is", if for example the user is asked to
18 write the name of the package as the first word of the summary field. A script
19 can parse the e-mail received by bug-wranglers and work with the first word
20 from the summary (foo/bar for example).
21
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