Towards a "generic" python bugtracker client library ? Re: Bug#508812: Reusing python-btsutils for bts-link

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

[I'm not sure I've thought about all this with sufficient care (and
surely didn't make enough progress towards hacking... so many mails and
meetings accumulating, difficult to hack ;), still...]

Some comments on previous discussions, and sorry for the bad TO+CC
headers.

I think there may be a need for a quite generic python client lib for
bugtrackers, which would have plugins or subclasses fitting different
bugtrackers. This would help for instance for the development of tools
like bts-link, which will be a client of several bugtrackers (among
them, the DBTS of course).

Development of such a library shouldn't be too much Debian-centered,
IMHO.

Still, the DBTS client part may be developped in the frame of something
like python-debian...

For instance, the bicho [1] project of the nepomuk [2] project have or
are developing client libs in Python for bugzilla these very days.

So I don't know... maybe after a python-bugtracker-client project would
fit better ? ;)

OK, I'm just trying and zoom out of Debian a little bit, but I assume we
now have the means with distributed bugtrackers and various other
technical bits, to develop things wherever they would be lying.

Still the question of a best forum to discuss that stays to be resolved,
IMHO. Maybe the Helios project [3] could propose such a generic
"python-bugtrackers-client-lib" list for discussing general non
Debian-related API and stuff ?

I'll provide other more focused (and DBTS related) responses later.

Hope this helps anyway.

Regards,

[1] bicho : http://tools.libresoft.es/bicho
[2] nepomuk and bugs : http://nepomuk.linbox.org/
[3] helios WP3 : https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web

Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 10:58 -0300, Gustavo R. Montesino a
écrit :
> Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 13:22 +0100, Bastian Venthur escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > just a quick question. Are the debianbts-python bindings supposed to go
> > into an extra package, will we reuse python-debianbts or is it supposed
> > to go into python-debian? Depending on the answer we can open or use the
> > appropriate mailinglist.
> 
> 
> I'm open to suggestions there, but I believe it can be integrated on
> python-debian. If no one objects, I think the right place for the
> technical discussion would be the pkg-python-debian-discuss ml.
> 
> > Anyways to make a start the discussion, here's what debianbts uses as
> > datastructure for a single bugreport. It fits the needs of reportbug-ng
> > so far, but maybe not others. Feel free to discuss:
> 
> The current bug class of btsutils tries to separate the usertags in a
> separete field from the tags. It also has a forwarded field, which kept
> the URL the bug was forwarded to (or whatever the maintainer set on
> forwarded) and an url field, which I don't remember why I had added, as
> it is easy and inexpensive to compute on-the-fly with the bug number...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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