Subject: Bug database: ideas and volunteers wanted
From: Andreas J Guelzow
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:59:45 -0700
James Amundson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 10:37, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
>
>>What kind of queries are you running/trying to run? Anything that
>>couldn't be done with a recent version of bugzilla? Have a look at
>>http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/cgi-bin/bugzilla/query.cgi
>>if you don't have any experience with bugzilla.
>>
>>We could easily run a bugzilla database for maxima if that would help
>>handling the maxima bug tracking.
>>
>
> Bugzilla is definitely superior to the Sourceforge bug database. The
> problem is that I would like to keep the infrastructure in one place as
> much as possible. I don't think it would be practical to make the
> bugzilla database a mirror of the sourceforge database. Do you?
>
Possible? Yes. Practical? Not really. While we apparently can extract
data from the source forge database in xml, I don't think there is an
easy way to insert/merge any changes and additions into an mysql data
base (the backend of bugzilla).
But this could be a simple programming exercise...
Andreas
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Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
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