Bug#508812: Reusing python-btsutils for bts-link

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Some quick comment on your description of the class attributes.

Le mercredi 17 décembre 2008 à 13:22 +0100, Bastian Venthur a écrit :
> Hi,

> nr:	 is the bugnumber
> summary: is the subject line of the bugreport
> submitter: is the submitter of the bugreport
> status:	 is the bugstatus
> severity: ...
> fulltext: should hold the full bugreport but rng just displays the html
> 	  of our bts instead
> package:  is the package
> first and lastaction: are dates
> tags:     ...

It seems to me that the DBTS includes distinct 'Subject' and 'Summary'
fields, at least looking at the internal database (.summary files). It
is actually only distinct for a very few bugs.

I think this may have been some evolution of the bugtracker that was
never really exploited. Didn't take time to look at the code anyway.

So I assume that confounding Subject and Summary in practice is not so
bad... unless it makes sense to say that sometimes, the summary (as
"summary of the discussion") could be used more, because new clients
would make it easier for the users.

Just my 2 cents,

P.S.: someone should definitely look at the Debian BTS code to give
proper response to that issue ;)
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