Summer of Code?! Tim
Leo Simons wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:57:04AM +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: >> Is there any way we can couple the mailing list postings to JIRA? > > Interesting question! I'm sure it should be possible :-) > >> I often find it hard to go back and find the -dev list discussions we >> have had for particular issues. If we could have links from JIRA to a >> mail archive of subject headers containing HARMONY-XYZ tags that would >> be great. > > Heh, one alternative is to use a better mailer :-) > > In mutt you go... > > / ~s HARMONY-XYZ > > and if I want to go really fancy I'll usually do > > !mairix bs:HARMONY-XYZ > c ~/mailsearch > > to search cross-list and deeply into archives. Of course, apple users will > just go > > apple+space HARMONY-XYZ > > it'll take minutes instead of seconds but it kinda works too if you keep > your mail volume down and use Apple Mail. > > In any case, it should be possible to create a webapp tool that does > this kind of thing, eg > > 1) get list of jira prefixes > 2) get list of mbox files > 3) correlate using (HARMONY|INFRASTRUCTURE|MAVEN|GERONIMO|...)-[0-9]+ > 3a) collapse threads, keep only first message id in a thread > 4) get list of mailing list corresponding to jira prefixes > 5) for each match, construct the mail-archives.apache.org URL > using that list > 6) use the jira interface to figure out whether the message id > was already mentioned, if not, post a comment listing the > message id and the mail-archives URL > > Neat little task. Lets find a volunteer :-). Maybe posting to infrastructure@ > or site-dev@ will help... > > LSD > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
