[Bugsquad] (attachment) Implementation of online bugzilla product mapping for DrKonqi

[Matt Rogers]

On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:19:28 am Darío Andrés wrote:
> According to the developers, the server that host bugzilla is capable
> of interpreting PHP.
> I made a simple PHP script that will allow us to implement the current
> feature of DrKonqi  (binary name <-> bugzilla product&component
> mapping) on the remote server. This allow us to change the mappings at
> every moment without relying on the local mappings file being
> distributed and updated every KDE release.
> 
> It should work but it could also be improved (and extended to add more
> capabilities)
> @Matt: could you test this on the bugzilla server (may be on bugs.k.o
> or bugstest.k.o) ? I don't know in which path could it be, if it can't
> be in the root path of the domain, a subfolder may be ok if it is
> accessible so I can perform tests.
> 
> May be the mappings file could be stored in another place. In any
> case, if this is allowed by you and kde admins, I will request karma
> to modify the script and/or the mappings file.
> 
> ... In fact it doesn't need to be in the bugzilla server/domain as it
> doesn't interact with the bugzilla database at all (it may be on the
> future to check for legal values...), but I thought that having those
> script in the bugzilla server would make sense as only DrKonqi are
> going to use them.
> 
> I attach both script and a simple mappings file (reduced version of
> the current DrKonqi map)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Darío A.
> 
> PD: I used PHP because I know it more than CGI, but the script is
> rather simple (only string parsing and arrays); may be it can be
> simply ported to CGI if needed.
> @George: I'm looking forward optimizations you can done in this script :D
> 

I have a question:
Why isn't the result in XML or some other sort of designed-to-be-machine-
parsable language? :)

Personally, I'm not inclined to put this anywhere at the moment until the 
whole "Bugzilla sucks we should move to something else" actually has something 
concrete come out of it in terms of "we'll move to XYZ" or it just dies out.
-- 
Matt