Bug 202965
Summary: | Add field for LTC reporters | ||
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Product: | [Community] Bugzilla | Reporter: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> |
Component: | Bugzilla General | Assignee: | PnT DevOps Devs <hss-ied-bugs> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | devel | CC: | cward, ejratl, jjarvis, nelhawar, sglass |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2009-05-05 12:50:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Blocks: | 426880 |
Description
David Cantrell
2006-08-17 15:00:30 UTC
This is a great use for the External Bug Reference section that has been implemented in our Bugzilla for quite some time. IBM's Linux Technology Center is in our current list of bug repositories in the drop down menu. They can even set the value at the time the new bug is created. How do we make sure they know about this and use it? See, I knew we'd have some sort of system in place to handle that already. I have no idea how IBM's black box LTC works, so getting them to use the external bug reference may be difficult. But I really think we should push for that. Maybe just a simple matter of telling people for a while until they "get it". Or, could you trap new bug reports in the submit phase. If the summary line starts with LTC[0-9\ ]+ then you could stop at a page that says "use the external bug reference, yo." David, did you determine yet if the External Bug functionality works for IBM? I'm interested to know if they're using it yet...or planning to. I have mentioned it to several IBM people and those who I have mentioned it to agree that it is a problem and like the idea of using an external bug reference, but so far I have not seen IBM change their ways. The External Bug functionality used to work but appears to have been broken in the move to Bugzilla 3.0. Clayton Arndt from the IBM mirror tool team is looking into it. From a release feature request perspective, the External Bug field doesn't solve the whole problem because IBMers track the LTC Bugzilla reference number and additionally the DevTrack reference number. I believe that having the DevTrack reference number in the title may be an unnecessary hold-over that we can solve by changing the IBM process - I'll see if I can get sufficient buy-in at IBM for doing this. Meanwhile, once the bug is mirrored over the first time, subsequent changes to the title don't get mirrored back to the LTC Bugzilla so if you have an intern who needs hazing, just set him to editing bug short descriptions and you will feel happier in no time. What's the latest on this? just a question, how does IBM create bugs in bugzilla ? using the xmlrpc interface? if that is the case then they can change their xmlrpc scripts that create the bugs to add the LTC value to the whiteboard field in the bug report or as mentioned before they can just update the external bug reference, if that is a good solution then we can look at implementation examples. Noura Noura, I believe they are using the xmlrpc interface. They claim that they were using the ext reference successfully until it suddenly broke on 03-13-2009, a few weeks ago. They're investigating the issue. Okay, so IBM has fixed their issue. Their bug bot is now (again) using the external bug field. See bug #496820 for example. I'm working with them now to get ride of the LTC info in the summaries So can this be closed then or should we wait for them to clean the summaries? Seems like we can close as the summaries will just be clean for new bugs only anyway. Dave Let's leave it open until we get a thumbs up from them or not that they'll be removing the ltc info from the summaries. That way once this is closed, we'll know that future bugs shouldn't have it, so if they do, we've hit a 'regression'. Okay, i'm going to go ahead and close this issue out. IBM is using the external bz field now. They still add LTC info to some of the headers, but in general, they appear to be much shorter than they used to be and more readable. If anyone has a problem again with their LTC summaries, please re-open this bug. |