[python-bugzilla] python-bugzilla mods for new bugzilla.redhat.com fields

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Oct 19 15:39:49 UTC 2012


On 09/17/2012 08:27 PM, Jared Morgan wrote:
> Hi there all.
> 
> Firstly, thank you *so* much for this awesome tool.
> 
> In Red Hat Engineering Content Services, we depend on this tool to be able to extract Release Note content from Bugzilla. It saves us days of hand-writing release notes in XML. 
> 
> We can edit the CCFR directly in bugzilla then export the contents using a wrapper script around the python-bugzilla tool. The wrapper script was initially devised by Lee Carlon, and has recently undergone significant rework by Scott Mumford.
> 
> With the recent changes to Bugzilla Release Note fields, I've had to get some mods done to the fields the tool supports. Lee Newson made these changes for us in short order so we could produce release notes using the new fields to meet a GA deadline.
> 
> Now the dust has settled, I wanted to share the work Lee Newson has done to the python-bugzilla tool with the list.  
> 
> His email with an overview of mods done to the script is forwarded below for reference.
> 
> If you want to get your hands on these mods and implement them officially in the tool, we would love to help make that happen. 
> 
> I think the mods Lee has done add real value to the already excellent tool, and I feel it would benefit people who use other bugzilla instances (maybe not the Doc_Type and Doc_Text fields specifically, but certainly the Target_Release field).
> 
> Hope you find this info interesting at a minimum, and worthy enough to perhaps serve as a basic RFE with solution.
> 
> Cheers, and thanks again for your work.
> 

Thanks for the info, I'd definitely like to see the patches, I'm sure we can
get them or equivalent functionality available upstream.

So you guys can either mail the patches here, or open a new fedora bug report
and attach them there, or publish a git tree, etc. and I'll take a look.

Thanks,
Cole



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