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Bug#565513: debbugs: Provide an OSLC-CM compatible REST API



Le dimanche 17 janvier 2010 à 00:08 -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit :

> It wasn't clear what part of the specification actually enabled you to
> do that. [Honestly, it's still not clear, because the specification
> isn't particularly well organized, nor does it have a very logical
> layout that.]
> 

I agree it's not very clear upfront.

> Furthermore, we won't be supporting submitting or modifying bugs via
> any non-email API. [At least, not in the forseable future.]
>  

That may be questioned, but this is another topic of discussion. ACK.

> > The main advantage I can see for OSLC-CM is that tools like
> > reportbug, bug-buddy, bts, bz, bts-link, mylyn or others could only
> > implement on single standard instead of having to deal with various
> > sorts of APIs once the bugtrackers have agreed to use this standard.
> 
> Unfortuatly, OSLC-CM doesn't appear anywhere near complete enough to
> handle the reports that reportbug, bts, et al. already deal with.

I'm not sure.

OSLC-CM V1 only mandates some very basic fields of description of bugs,
but it doesn't prevent to use extended (non-standard) attributes, making
it a very basic common standard, still extensible for each tool's
specific attributes.

Anyway, thanks for your comments, and we'll eventually try and hack some
code to demonstrate if/how debbugs may benefit from OSLC-CM ;)

Regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)




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