On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 13:53:15 UTC, Andrew Edwards
wrote:
This would provide a uniformed location to see if a pull exists
for a specific issue
For the record, for this particular problem we use the "pull"
keyword. Posting a fixing pull URL as a comment by itself is also
prevalently common, perhaps it would be easier to standardize
that instead.
If there is a better way, I would appreciate guidance toward
that direction also.
Well, ideally, it would be better to use an API instead of
parsing HTML.
The current Bugzilla does not expose an API (I understand it's
planned for the next major Bugzilla version). The blessed way to
programmatically query a Bugzilla instance seems to be to use
BzAPI, which works like a proxy - exposing an API while talking
to a slighty-patched Bugzilla instance:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:BzAPI#Your_Own_Installation
However, I don't think we'll be able to convince Brad to patch
D's Bugzilla installation to support BzAPI, since he declined
previous similar requests.
