Re: [Axiom-developer] bugzilla

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Debian's reportbug is also a good model.  Speaking of
which, feel free to use the axiom entry in the Debian BTS if you'd
like -- all reports can be manipulated by email, which is quite
scriptable. 

Take care,

David MENTRE <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Tim,
> 
> root <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > At http://www.bugzilla.org/download.html#utils is a command-line utility
> > to submit bugs to bugzilla. Has anyone tried this yet?
> 
> No. However, this script requires python and it seems to be bugzilla
> specific. As far as I know, savannah is not using bugzilla.
> 
> > I'd like to have a program in Axiom so you can just say "reportbug"
> > that would send bug-email to mozilla at the axiom site. It needs to
> > figure out the current version of axiom that is running, which opsys,
> > and send out mail which can be read into the bugzilla database on
> > savannah. That minimizes the pain users have to go thru to report a bug.
> 
> I agree with you that such a script would be helpfull. This script could
> also be used in case Axiom does not compile.
> 
> Please call the script something like axiom-report-bug, because some
> systems like debian have already a reportbug command.
> 
> Having the same fields as the current bug report form would be useful.
>  http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=axiom&func=additem
> 
> Why not adding a 'make dist' Makefile target that makes the tarball for
> source distribution? This target would prepare a shell script that
> includes the Arch branch and revision[1] to know on which source code
> the bug is reported. Or just a 'make axiom-report-bug' to produce the
> script. 
> 
> For operating system, "uname -a" should be sufficient.
> 
> However, I don't know how to find current user email and user name (from
> $USER env variable?).
> 
> I propose following script as a starting point:
> 
> ---start-of-script----
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> emailaddr="address@hidden,address@hidden"
> 
> version="address@hidden/axiom--release--1--patch-4"
> 
> reportfile=`mktemp` || (echo "Cannot create temporary file" && exit 1)
> system=`uname -a`
> 
> editor=`which emacs`
> 
> echo "Axiom bug report for $version" > $reportfile
> echo "System: $system" >> $reportfile
> echo "User: $USER" >> $reportfile
> echo "-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-" >> $reportfile
> echo "Title: please enter a miningful bug report title here" >> $reportfile
> echo >> $reportfile
> echo "Please make a detail report on what is failing: the commands you" >> 
> $reportfile
> echo "have typed, the results Axiom has produced, the expected results." >> 
> $reportfile
> echo >> $reportfile
> 
> $editor $reportfile
> 
> mail "$emailaddr" < $reportfile
> 
> echo "I have sent your bug report to $emailaddr. You can also find it in file 
> $reportfile."
> ---end-of-script----
> 
> 
> I don't know how to guess correctly the $editor part and the $USER part.
> 
> 
> Yours,
> d.
> 
> [1] "tla logs -f|tail -1" produces something like:
> address@hidden/axiom--release--1--patch-4
> -- 
> David MENTRE <address@hidden> -- http://www.nongnu.org/axiom/
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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