Infra have a bot that posts a comment to bugzilla issue #42 if the string "issue #42" appears in a log message. Is that something we want to enable? Does our tracker supports the bugzilla XML RPC API, or some other way for a script to post comments to issues on it?
----- Forwarded message from Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> ----- > From: Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > Subject: Re: the AOO SVN->Bugzilla Robot is running inside the ASF > infrastructure now > To: Herbert Duerr <hdu_...@alice.de> > Cc: infrastruct...@apache.org > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:19:58 +0200 > Message-ID: <20121130101958.GK3035@lp-shahaf.local> > > CC -= AOO > > For infra audience I'll describe the thing: it's a daemon, runs on infra > hardware, that watches svn logs and whenever they mention a bugzilla > issue, cross-posts the revision to the issue. > > Herbert --- dev@svn might be interested, I'll ask. Also I you mightc > link your svn2bz bot from the www.a.o/dev/ web pages --- there is a list > if "in-house services" in one of them. > > Herbert Duerr wrote on Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:10:46 +0100: > > Starting from yesterday the SVN->Bugzilla robot is running on ASF > > servers [1]. This will improve its reliabilty quite a bit, as power > > outages, DNS changes, mandatory OS reboots, etc. won't interrupt the > > service as much. > > > > I'd like to point out that it depends on reliably parseable issue > > references in the commit message summary, such as > > #i123# one summary > > #4321# another summary > > #i5678 more of the same > > #98765 still more > > which were recognized. The logs showed that more styles such as > > Fixed issue #1234: summary > > i5678 - yet another summary > > were used. I added support for these too, but I'd like to limit these > > variations. > > > > I don't know were the limit for such variations should be, but issue > > references named in roman numerals or spelled out in some dialects are > > out of scope ;-) > > > > Thanks to the ASF infrastructure team for allowing the robot to run > > inside the infrastructure and for their valuable advice. Special thanks > > to Daniel Shahaf for his patience. > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5004 > > > > Herbert ----- End forwarded message -----
