Re: Status of the bug tracker testbed

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> 
>    On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>    > Another question/request. As we are likely moving to a new DVC
>    > (bzr), is there a way to make debbug and bzr cooperate ?
>    > 
>    > For example, I could have sent/pushed a fix to bug #1234. I would
>    > like bzr telling so to debbug such that it would have updated the
>    > bug state. I know bzr is able to achieve this for several bug
>    > trackers but dunno if it would work out of the box with debbug.
> 
>    The real question is how you want to indicate that you've fixed (or
>    otherwise munged with) a bug; once you know that, it's pretty easy to
>    have the post-commit hooks tag the bug pending or fixed or even send
>    the patch that you've added. [It's a pretty simple matter of sending a
>    mail message.]
> 
>    But yes, in short, it's something that can be done relatively easily.
> 
> Are you willing to help me in adding this to the bzrlib ?

I'm not much use in python unfortunatly, but I can answer any
questions you have.

> I will probably need to test things against a real Debbugs setup.

I responded privately to the other message, but for the record, the
package created is bzr, and it's fine to test using that package.


Don Armstrong

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