Christian Lohmaier wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 15:57:54 +0200: > Hi Daniel, *, > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> > wrote: > > Christian Lohmaier wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 13:43:04 +0200: > >> > > For jira the Infra team uses an IRC bot that interfaces with jira (and > > can notify on issue changes, add comments to issues, close them, etc) > > --- so you can be pretty sure that jira's API will remain working and > > continuously tested. > > Yes, I was aware that jira is capable/having both soap and xml-rpc > interaces, I was just worried that it might not be enabled by policy > or something like that :-) Great to hear that it is used - and if > apache already has an bot for issues, then of course there is no need > for IZBot to deal with those >
To clarify: infra has a bot that does N things and one of them is the issue handling. So the issue handling would have to be factored out before it can be reused. I know someone already factored out some parts of infrabot for reuse on their channel --- not sure whether the issues tree was part of it --- someone on #asfinfra would know. > > I'd be interested to know if bugzilla/* have comparable features... > > It has, and that it doesn't work on openoffice.org is due to the lack > of interest of the kenai/OOo admins to fix the setup, not because > bugzilla wasn't capable of it. > Bugzilla itsellf supports xmlrpc, and that support is not going to vanish. > Thanks for the information. Not sure what the state of ASF's bugzilla installation is re these. > I reported the broken xml-rpc interface when OOo did migrate from CEE > (CollabNet Enterpriese Edition, formerly known as SourceCast) to > Kenai, but there apparenlty was no interest in fixing it. > > See > http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/lists/discuss/archive/2011-03/message/14 > > ciao > Christian
