Bug database: ideas and volunteers wanted

> we can easily get a dump of the bug database in xml format.
> Does anyone out there have any bright ideas as to what we
> might do with an exported xml version of the database?

This is pretty low-tech, but frankly the first thing I would do with an
XML dump is simply use it AS IS for seeing if a bug had been reported
before.  I'd just get a snapshot every so often and use Emacs as my, um,
"query tool".

Obviously we can do much much better than that, but -- believe it or
not -- I had actually put together a little Emacs program to scrape the
bug reports from the HTML pages!!!  So an XML dump is an improvement on
that.

If we're going to do anything more than that, we'll need to host the
database and the scripts somewhere....

So what is the magic incantation for XML dumping?

        -s