Re: Gnus interface to Bugzilla?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Does Bugzilla have a programmable interface, or does one have to parse
> the HTML?

Newer versions of Bugzilla allow setting the ctype={format} parameter,
så one can get out csv/xml/whatever data.

So parsing Bugzilla should be pretty easy.  However, the listing of
the bugs in question doesn't include how many responses there have
been, so you won't get the most important thing in a news reader --
notification that there are new messages to read.

Well, without actually querying each bug.

Which might not be out of the question.  I'd guess it's not uncommon
to only be interested in a small subset of the bug reports...  Hm...

So, how would this work?

You'd specify an nnbugzilla server with a handy command that says
which Bugzilla to use, and what components you want (and perhaps the
rest of the query criteria).  Fetching new news from this server would
be one buglist.cgi call, and one show_bug.cgi call per bug in this
list.

Entering a group would show you the report and the responses, of
course.

I think it's workable...

Then there's responding/changing state/adding Cc/and so on, which I
haven't looked into at all.

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