Help bts-link be a more effective tool

[Sandro Tosi]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:46, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:17:06AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Before you decide to push out errors to maintainers via PTS (as I've seen
>> mentionned), you should really improve the tool so that the only remaining
>> errors are really user errors.
>
> BTW, when that is done, please submit a wishlist bugreport on the PTS
> requesting integration, *together* with a description of the parsing
> rules of the error output of bts-link OR maybe a switch to a format
> which can be parsed out of the box and is extensible, e.g., yaml.

Thanks Zack for the input, we'll evaluate yaml (or some other format).

> The PTS is being polluted by tons of micro-parsers for the output of
> the tools it monitor, a convergence at least on the surface syntaxes
> would be nice to ease future maintenance.

Since we'lll have to implement it from scratch, name one and we'll
consider to stick to it.

Cheers,
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