[PHP-DEV] are there alternate interfaces to the bug tracking system?

[Sandro Tosi]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 18:32, Sandro Tosi<morph at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 18:20, Sean Coates<sean at caedmon.net> wrote:
>>> so what i'm wondering is: is there an easily parseable or structured
>>> interface (xmlrpc, soap, read-only JSON export, whatever) to the php.net
>>> bts
>>> that could be used to get a bug's information?  or would such a bts-link
>>> service need to resort to scraping the page for a particular bug's status?
>>
>> Not sure if this really helps you (and I agree that the bug system really
>> needs some sort of better programmatic interface), but you can translate
>> most bugs.php.net pages into rss (which is easier to parse than HTML...
>> usually (-: ) by prepending rss/ to the URL. This useful for reading.
>>
>> For example:
>> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46944
>> becomes:
>> http://bugs.php.net/rss/bug.php?id=46944
>
> yeah, I'll probably follow this way, but using the format=xml parameter:
>
> http://bugs.php.net/rss/bug.php?format=xml&id=46944
>
> that seems better for programmatical parsing.

FYI: I've implemented the parsing using the rss xml ouput. In case
some development is done on this side, please keep me in the loop :)

Cheers,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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