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Re: Syncing with Launchpad Bug Tracker
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Stubbs <ams at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Deryck Hodge <deryck dot hodge at canonical dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 12:21:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: Syncing with Launchpad Bug Tracker
- References: <BANLkTikfpzviH7SEME5QBRZuiep27zmopw@mail.gmail.com> <4DBFD00E.8080706@codesourcery.com>
On 3 May 2011 10:51, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
> On 27/04/11 18:29, Deryck Hodge wrote:
>>
>> I work at Canonical on Launchpad and am trying to setup syncing
>> between our bug tracker and the GCC bug tracker. ?Specifically, we
>> want to enable comment syncing between linked bugs on our trackers and
>> back links from your Bugzilla to the Launchpad bug. ?Currently we only
>> sync status and importance from your tracker to ours. ?We need
>> credentials for an account on your tracker to setup this additional
>> syncing. ?If we had such credentials, we would sync comments and back
>> links only if a Launchpad bug is linked to a GCC Bugzilla bug. ?We
>> store these credentials in private configs on Launchpad. ?We have this
>> setup for a number of other trackers. ?The Mozilla Bugzilla comes to
>> mind as a tracker we do this with already.
>
> Will it be possible to post comments to Launchpad, and not have them
> automatically posted to bugzilla?
>
> I sometimes post Linaro-specific details to the Launchpad bug which would be
> meaningless noise in upstream bugzilla. The bug is linked because the
> problem is the same, but typically the source-base is different, and/or we
> want to add additional tracking details, or whatever.
>
> e.g. I don't think bugzilla readers are interested in a comment like "Bug
> targeted at Linaro x.x release", or "Patch committed to lp:gcc-linaro/4.5
> revision 99456".
Completely agreed. I imagine the majority of comments on the
downstream bug tracker are irrelevant for the upstream tracker.
Patches and discussion of fixes should be submitted upstream as normal
(to gcc-patches and/or in GCC bugzilla) not by syncing from a
downstream tracker. Or if the patch isn't suitable for upstream, we
don't want to know about it in GCC's bugzilla.
It would be useful to see some examples of bugs in Mozilla's bugzilla
which get synced with Launchpad bugs.
Assuming only relevant comments get synced I think it would be useful,
and it should be possible with a normal bugzilla user with no extra
privileges (I don't think we want the Launchpad account to be able to
modify arbitrary bugs, only its own.)