On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:31:32PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Here are some things that occur to me quickly:
I'll be just pointing to existing tools I'm aware of that are related to your points. People probably already know all of them, but since I'm a bit surprised to not having them mentioned in this thread I'll do that. > 4) Integration with BTS and $DVCS. I have some code that marks bugs pending > when mentioned in a VCS change log. But this could go farther: branches > tied to bugs, etc. My workflow for that is using dch + debcommit + tagpending, all in devscripts. With dch I play with the changelog as usual, possibly adding the "Closes: #xxxxxx" entry. Then I commit with debcommit, which reuses the changelog entry as it is. Then I run tagpending which extracts bug numbers from the changelog entry and send the appropriate message to the BTS. I find this quite satisfying, the only extra integration which I would like is alioth-side post-commit hooks (which I believe exists for whatever $VCS) grepping for "Closes: #xxxxxx" lines in commit messages. It won't be life changing, but having them by default on all repos on alioth would be nice. Were you expecting something like this? more/less? > 6) Better tools to integrate Debian BTS with upstream BTS. I would love a Uhm, we have bts-link (http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/) which is quite nice, though I must say that thus far I've been lucky, and madcoder has always made the setup I needed instead of me :-) > command-line tool where I could say "debforward 123456". It would look up > the package name for 123456, figure out from some metadata what type of BTS > it uses and where it lives, look up my account on that BTS in ~/.forward, > and create a bug report there and mark the Debian one forwarded. Then, if > there is no automated mechanism, some scanner at Debian would look for > changes on either end and forward them back and forth. I would love this. I guess madcoder already have this kind of information for bts-link, if the information is available somewhere it would be trivial to add this feature to bts (the commandline tool in devscripts, not the BTS of course). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ............... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ? /\ All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema \/ right keys at the right time
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