Description of problem: This may seem like a stupid and silly request but I really don't like using the online bugzilla tool to report a bug. Too many clicks, slow, annoying. I would rather have a stripped down tool that does this. Abrt seems to sort of be that tool. What I was thinking is having some sort of icon that sits on the tray on the bottom of the screen that I could click on to report a bug. This tool would already know my product name, version number, user/passwd. It just needs me to choose a product from a cached list and fill in the template. Pretty easy, alooooot faster than using the browser and kinda painless. Abrt already shows up in the system tray when it detects a program failure. How about sitting there all the time but with say a green color meaning everything is fine. When I click on that button, it could open up the normal abrt tool. But inside that tool might be a new 'Report New' button that signifies that I want to report something that abrt did not detect (like a strange app behaviour or whatever). That was the idea just because I'm lazy and hate using the web interface. I know this is probably a little outside the scope of the tool but I thought I would throw this out there just for fun. :-) Or maybe it could be a plugin if I knew how to do that type of stuff.
There were several attempts to create such (stand alone) tool, see Fedora Hosted, but none of them progressed enough, to my knowledge. I know, you won't like this idea but: eclipse-mylyn does what you requested for. :).
Thanks for feedback. I don't think I ever used eclipse and really have no plans too. The reason I asked is I have hacked on python-bugzilla a lot a year ago and was recently writing wrapper scripts around it again to do various tasks like creating bugs and such. I was looking for a pretty gui that I could click on. The only thing is I don't programm gui stuff so I thought I could convince some other gui tool to stick it in there. Oh well, I'll probably enhance my wrapper scripts for now. Thanks again.
Looks like we won't be able to work on this (at least not now)? Close this bug?
Postponed till "abrt2"
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ABRT 2.x now does provide a tool which can report problem (usually a C or python crash) to Bugzilla: Start by reading manpage / running --help: $ abrt-action-bugzilla --help Usage: abrt-action-bugzilla [-v] -c CONFFILE -d DIR Reports problem to Bugzilla -v, --verbose Be verbose -d DIR Dump directory -c FILE Configuration file (may be given many times) then try to use it, and yell at us if you have problems. (I already see a few, such as: this help text needs extending). Where "yell" means: - give the *exact* description of the bug, or - exactly which info is not explained in the --help / manpage (best if you have a proposed text), or - describe how do you propose to improve the tool itself (example: "I need to do foo, propose to add option --foo=PARAM, where PARAM is ... ...") I will work now on improving --help text/manpage, then will close this bug.
I'm working on it right now.
Fixed in git in commit 643d9abf858e979a19fbd85ecc386d167fe384d3. New --help text: $ abrt-action-bugzilla --help Usage: abrt-action-bugzilla [-v] -c CONFFILE -d DIR Reports problem to Bugzilla. The tool reads DIR. Then it logs in to Bugzilla and tries to find a bug with the same abrt_hash:HEXSTRING in 'Whiteboard'. If such bug is not found, then a new bug is created. Otherwise, if such bug is found and it is marked as CLOSED DUPLICATE, the tool follows the chain of duplicates until it finds a non-DUPLICATE bug. The tool adds a new comment to found bug. The URL to new or modified bug is printed to stdout and recorded in 'reported_to' element. CONFFILE lines should have 'PARAM = VALUE' format. Recognized string parameters: BugzillaURL, Login, Password. Recognized boolean parameter (VALUE should be 1/0, yes/no): SSLVerify. Parameters can be overridden via $Bugzilla_PARAM environment variables. -v, --verbose Be verbose -d DIR Dump directory -c FILE Configuration file (may be given many times)
abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15
Package abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
abrt-2.0.3-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.