[Fwd: [Fedora Update] [comment] evince-0.8.0-6.fc7]

[Christopher Aillon]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 13:04 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 12:59:48 Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> > Actually bodhi should just create a bugzilla entry with the right
>> > context when someone wants to comment on an update (and link it on the
>> > bodhi page)
>> 
>> Mapping the commenter to a valid bugzilla ID is hard, mapping it to bodhi 
>> guarantees you get no feedback from bug comments.
>> 
>> I think the idea of comments was to allow commentary on the update coming from 
>> those without bugzilla accounts or without the overhead of bugzilla.  Things 
>> like "this solved my problem" or "this update works great for me" aren't 
>> really suitable for bugzilla.  But capturing those in the update entry rather 
>> than a mailing list seems ideal.
> 
> What if bodhi put a link to a bugzilla query that would pull up all the
> recent bug activity for the package?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Fedora&version=devel&component=kernel&component_text=&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&fixed_in_type=allwordssubstr&fixed_in=&qa_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&qa_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=14&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Bug+Number+Ascending&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
> 
> (BTW, is there a way to specify in the URL what columns are displayed?
> I was able to change my display to include the changed/opened date
> but bugzilla seems to handle that through cookies or something like
> that).

I also highly recommend that if you're going to be doing automated stuff 
with bugzilla that you use the xml interface where possible to make 
parsing easier and more importantly, save load on an already stressed 
bugzilla.

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