[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
> 

Since it seems that the whole "i hate bugzilla" discussion has died down, I'm 
prepared to tackle this. I think I'll go ahead and convert it to perl and make 
it a bugzilla extension. 

If there are other things you need/want by the KDE 4.4 release, please file 
wishes against the b.k.o product.
-- 
Matt