Re: file bugs to bugzilla from anaconda

[Elliot Peele <elliot rpath com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:23:12PM -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
> > * bugUrl doesn't have to be a bugzilla instance.  And are the XML-RPC
> > methods being used even available at other bugzilla instances?  There
> > probably needs to be a way to say that this bug instance "supports"
> > things filed in this manner.
> 
> Unknown as to whether other bugzillas support the XML-RPC.

How about making this a bit more generic so that someone could write
support for something other than Bugzilla? For instance rPath and
Foresight use JIRA which supports both a SOAP and XML-RPC interface.

> > * Keeping scp support seems to have some value, so I don't know that I'd
> > replace it.  Not sure what the right UI then is for choosing what to do
> > with your traceback.  Maybe something like the firefox download dialog
> >     [-----------------------------------]
> >     | Blah.  We crashed.  Some info.    |
> >     |    v Traceback details            |
> >     | o Save to local disk              |
> >     | o Send to bugzilla                |
> >     | o Save to remote server           |
> >     [-----------------------------------]
> 
> Sure, something like this is easy enough to do.  Looks like there's
> enough support on the list for keeping it, even though I don't really
> care to.  I always viewed it as a stop-gap until we got something
> better.

This could still be valuable from the point of view of debugging a dark
site install.

Elliot

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Elliot Peele
rPath, Inc.
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