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You should look for existing tools which could be enhanced before |
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suggesting a new one. `bugz post` (from www-client/pybugz) allows you |
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to submit a new bug report from the command line. Why don't you go and |
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patch that to do all of the automated things you want it to do and then |
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come back and show us? |
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-Thomas |
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:52:03 +0200 |
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> * Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> schrieb: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> just a few thoughts: |
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> > So yes, I'd love to see something like this someday. And I'd love to |
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> > help implementing it if such a decision was taken. But the question |
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> > remains : it obviously looks useful, but do we need it ? |
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> I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically |
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> collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is |
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> simply called by commandline and asks the users several questions. |
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> Then it files an bug with some certain syntax and uploads necessary |
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> information (emerge --info, pkg-db extracts, ...). |
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> Maybe this also could take some load from the bug wranglers, because |
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> based on the user's answers, the bugs could be formatted and assigned |
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> to the right persons without manual interaction. |
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> I also like to have such an tool, and like to contribute. |
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> So, now, let's start :) |
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> Some points which (IMHO) have to be discussed: |
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> * shall we directly access BGO ? |
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> * what data should be sent ? |
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> * how to gather this data (directly look into /var/db/pkg) ? |
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> * what questions should be asked ? |
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> * should this tool create usual bugs or separate user-support bugs ? |
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> cu |
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> -- |
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> Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ |
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