This message wasn't intended to discuss GNOME's Bugzilla but I brought that up. Apparently there has been some discussion about this, just wondering what it was and whether there'd be any chance of getting this (and I guess upgrading to Bugzilla 3).
Working both with Ubuntu's Launchpad and GNOME's Bugzilla, I can say that the current processes to relate bugs, to push them upstream, and just to manage them are quite tedious. Olav, copying you as I hear you're the Bugzilla maintainer. Cheers, Andrew Conkling ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Binns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:29 PM Subject: Re: Request for beta testers: Bugzilla and Trac plugins To: Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bjorn Tillenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Robottom Reis < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/8/23 Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Awesome stuff! I've actually not been doing much with my own projects as far > as bugs (and using Launchpad when I do), but I'm rather curious about what > this means for GNOME's Bugzilla. Would that be a Bugzilla-wide thing or > would each GNOME project need to enable this? I'm a bit involved in GNOME's > Bugsquad and quite involved in managing Banshee's bugs on GNOME's Bugzilla, > so I'd really like to see this get used for one or both of those. The plugin is installed per-Bugzilla instance. Since bugzilla.gnome.org is all one Bugzilla instance, the plugin would work for all the projects whose bugs are hosted in it. Unfortunately the plugin is written for Bugzilla 3.0 and above (Bugzilla < 3.0 doesn't have an XML-RPC interface, and the plugin builds on that interface). bugzilla.gnome.org runs a customised version of Bugzilla 2.x, IIRC, which means that the plugin can't be installed on it at present. I believe that Jorge Castro, one of the Canonical Community team, spoke to the bugzilla.gnome.org maintainer at GUADEC this year and discussed this matter briefly, but I don't know how things are going to proceed from here. Hope this clarifies things a little. If you've got any questions feel free to contact me or one of my colleagues (to whom I've copied this mail). I'm on vacation for the next week, but I'll be happy to help you after that. If you know anyone that I should talk to about the situation with bugzilla.gnome.org, please let me know. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:56 PM Subject: Request for beta testers: Bugzilla and Trac plugins To: Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You've previously registered one or more bug trackers with Launchpad, either as part of a project or so that Launchpad can retrieve bug statuses from them. I'm emailing you because we've recently developed Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla that allow bidirectional communication between Launchpad and the remote bug trackers that have them installed. We need to be able to test these plugins - and that's where you come in. If you know of any bug tracker whose administrators may be interested in installing the plugin for interoperating with Launchpad - or indeed if you run such a bug tracker yourself - please let us know by emailing us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can find details of how to install the plugins and what you need to do to get Launchpad to work with your bugtracker on the Launchpad Help wiki: For Bugzilla: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/BugzillaPlugin For Trac: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/TracPlugin Installing one of the plugins means that: * Launchpad will be able to forward bugs to upstream bug trackers that have the plugin installed. Users of those bug trackers won't have to check Launchpad for bugs registered against their project; they'll be forwarded straight to the upstream tracker. * If a bug watch is created against an upstream bug, Launchpad will tell the upstream bug tracker which Launchpad bug is watching it. This means that not only is there a link in Launchpad to the upstream bug, but there's also a link in the upstream bug tracker to the Launchpad bug. * Launchpad will be able to import comments from upstream bugs which are being watched in Launchpad. If you register a bug watch against an upstream bug you'll be able to read the conversation about that bug on Launchpad, including the comments that are made on the upstream bug tracker. * Launchpad will be able to push comments to upstream bugs which are linked to a Launchpad bug, so if you add a comment on Launchpad in reply to a comment which was imported from an upstream bug tracker, the comment will automatically be added to the conversation on the upstream bug tracker, too. This means that users of both Launchpad and the upstream tracker can view the whole conversation about the bug without leaving their preferred environments. Thanks in advance for your help, Graham -- Graham Binns | PGP Key: 4DAD18FA http://launchpad.net/~gmb <http://launchpad.net/%7Egmb>
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