[CentOS-devel] Resources Needed for Doc Toolchain Project [GSoC]

Fri Jun 5 12:48:20 UTC 2015
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Hi,


On 05/06/15 13:36, kunaal jain wrote:
> I am sorry modifying is wrong word. We will be using API, Hooks of
> bugzilla, which have excellent API, hooks. 

well, we dont use bugzilla in CentOS, so doing the work for bugzilla
would mostly be a waste of time. Our trackers run Mantis, which also
have good api's

> But since we will be doing experiments, it won't be a good idea using
> bugs.centos.org <http://bugs.centos.org> initially.

There are test instances and devel instances for implementations around
bugs.centos.org - you are welcome to use those. But lets first establish
exactly what you need and why.

- KB

> 
> --
> Regards,
> Kunaal Jain
> 
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
> <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com
> <mailto:sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, kunaal jain <kunaalus at gmail.com
>     <mailto:kunaalus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > We will be developing a issue tracking system by modifying possibly
>     > bugzilla, or similar tool, which will be two way synced with Github. What we
>     > aim to do is use the very Github tools as an alternate source of Content
>     > contribution, but at the same time not depending on Github by syncing all
>     > these content to our issue tracking system. This is one major part of the
>     > tool chain we discussed.
> 
>     Hmm... let's back up a little bit. Anything that requires "modifying"
>     bugzilla would really have to end up being part of upstream bugzilla
>     project itself or, maintained by the specific Infra/SysOp team for the
>     downstream project (eg. CentOS). Instead of a wholesale modification
>     of bugzilla, would using a specific product/component combination
>     allow you to test the sync?
> 
> 
>     --


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