Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: wishlist I maintain an IRC bot in #debian-devel-changes which spams new and closed bugs as well as other changes from other sources such as uploaded packages.
It essentially works by being subscribed to debian-bugs-dist and
debian-bugs-closed and then parsing any messages that get delivered.
Some of this is sane (for example, reading "X-Debian-PR-Source"-like
headers), but some of it is not (eg. parsing pseudo-headers on submitted
bus).
This aside, it would be nice if the bot could present other information;
in particular:
- addition or removal of tags,
- cloned and re-assigned bugs, and (particularly)
- changes in bug severity.
This would seem to preclude moving away from an email-based architecture
due to the volume of changes being described, but this could also reduce
latency as messages would not have to visit liszt first.
I was talking with Don at Debconf regarding providing a generic feed
available over HTTP with essentially "logs" of the control interface in
a computer-readable format. He asked me to write this mail so it doesn't
fall through the cracks. Thanks for your attention so far.
Regards,
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