About bts-link's remote/ as standalone python package?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Olivier,

Sorry, I haven't gotten round to replying to your emails yet. I hope to
do so in the next couple of days.

Cheers,

Jelmer

Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 11:03 +0100 schrieb Olivier Berger:
> Hi.
> 
> Le mardi 25 novembre 2008 à 14:56 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij a écrit :
> > Hi Olivier,
> > 
> > Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 14:01 +0100 schrieb Olivier Berger:
> > > I noticed your changes in a git branch for bts-link
> > > (http://git.debian.org/?p=bts-link/btsclient.git;a=summary), and the
> > > discussion on :
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/be-devel@bugseverywhere.org/msg00010.html
> > > 
> > > Can you give us some update on what was the outcome of your attempts ?
> > > Icouldn't find any mention on the bts-link-devel list :(
> > The code was never merged - mainly because the main author of bts-link
> > doesn't have the time to review it
> 
> Hence his call for help, and our interest in trying to help maintaining
> it (in the frame of ou HELIOS project) ;-)
> 
> I hope we'll be able to help revive bts-link's development, in the next
> weeks (we'll probably have to setup some discussion with Pierre at some
> time... I may be wrong but I think he's in Paris, so we may be close
> enough to have a face to face meeting ?)
> 
> >  - but it's ready to be used for
> > simple access of bug reports in remote bug trackers.
> 
> Cool. I'll have to test it and see if I may switch to that branch
> instead of the master one (I initially missed it when I cloned the
> repo). I'll probably get back to you then ;)
> 
> > 
> > The idea has always been to make the remotebts support into a separate
> > project. I'll see if I can put it up on one of the git hosting sites
> > this week.
> > 
> 
> Very interesting. Please keep bts-link's list posted of your progress.
> 
> > > We are considering basing some work on bts-link too for work on
> > > bugtracker synchronisation (for the HELIOS project :
> > > http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2008/11/03/adding-gforge-bugtracker-support-in-bts-link/ ), so better not reinvent the wheel too much ;).
> > Ah, nice. It would definitely be nice to join forces working on this. 
> > 
> 
> FYI, we've also just talked to people interested in implementing some
> RDF store of bugs harvested from bugzilla, in the frame of a European
> project, and I guess the results may end up in being included in some
> KDE desktop's technology... I think they planed to code that in Python.
> 
> So I expect we'll be able to synchronise these efforts in some way, and
> that it may result in some interesting libs and results.
> 
> I'll try to keep the list posted of the progress.
> 
> Btw, you may be interested to know that :
> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/2008/11/25/we’re-hiring-a-floss-developper-to-work-on-bugtrackers-synchronisation/
> 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Lookin forward to collaborate with you ;-)
> 
> Best regards,
-- 
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