PyBugz - Python Bugzilla Interface ---------------------------------- Bugzilla has a very inefficient user interface, so I've written a command line utility to interact with it. This is mainly done to help me with closing bugs on Gentoo Bugzilla by grabbing patches, ebuilds and so on. Author ------ Alastair Tse <alastair@liquidx.net>. Copyright (c) 2006 under GPL-2. Features -------- * Searching bugzilla * Listing details of a bug including comments and attachments * Downloading/viewing attachments from bugzilla * Posting bugs, comments, and making changes to an existing bug. * Adding attachments to a bug. Usage/Workflow -------------- PyBugz comes with a command line interface called "bugz". It's operation is similar in style to cvs/svn where a subcommand is required for operation. To explain how it works, I will use a typical workflow for Gentoo development. 1) Searching bugzilla for bugs I can fix, I'll run the command: --------------------------------------------------------------- $ bugz search "version bump" --assigned liquidx@gentoo.org * Using http://bugs.gentoo.org/ .. * Searching for "version bump" ordered by "number" 101968 liquidx net-im/msnlib version bump 125468 liquidx version bump for dev-libs/g-wrap-1.9.6 130608 liquidx app-dicts/stardict version bump: 2.4.7 2) Narrow down on bug #101968, I can execute: --------------------------------------------- $ bugz get 101968 * Using http://bugs.gentoo.org/ .. * Getting bug 130608 .. Title : app-dicts/stardict version bump: 2.4.7 Assignee : liquidx@gentoo.org Reported : 2006-04-20 07:36 PST Updated : 2006-05-29 23:18:12 PST Status : NEW URL : http://stardict.sf.net Severity : enhancement Reporter : dushistov@mail.ru Priority : P2 Comments : 3 Attachments : 1 [ATTACH] [87844] [stardict 2.4.7 ebuild] [Comment #1] dushistov@----.ru : 2006-04-20 07:36 PST ... 3) Now this bug has an attachment submitted by the user, so I can easily pull that attachment in: ----------------------------------------------------------------- $ bugz attachment 87844 * Using http://bugs.gentoo.org/ .. * Getting attachment 87844 * Saving attachment: "stardict-2.4.7.ebuild" 4) If the ebuild is suitable, we can commit it using our normal repoman tools, and close the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------- $ bugz modify 130608 --fixed -c "Thanks for the ebuild. Committed to portage" or if we find that the bug is invalid, we can close it by using: $ bugz modify 130608 --invalid -c "Not reproducable" Other options ------------- There is extensive help in `bugz --help` and `bugz <subcommand> --help` for additional options. bugz.py can be easily adapted for other bugzillas by changing BugzConfig to match the configuration of your target bugzilla. However, I haven't spent much time on using it with other bugzillas out there. If you do have changes that will make it easier, please let me know.