Bug#590269: Bug#590214: support for submitting bug reports via http
Hello Olivier,
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:12, Olivier Berger
<olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 02:07:48AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:50:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> > > So, to summarize: a.) I still think reportbug should be able to submit bugs
>> > > using port 80
>> >
>> > Agreed.
>>
>> Ditto.
>> As I haven't been able to find a feature request for that, here is one!
>>
>> Dear reportbug maintainers, the contest of this request is the -devel
>> (sub)thread started at
>> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/07/msg00492.html>. In
>> subsequent messages, it has been argued that permitting to report bugs
>> via http (actually, via port 80 ...) would remove some more barriers to
>> bug reporting, due to firewalling and the like.
>>
>> I understand that for such a feature mere support in reportbug isn't
>> enough, so you might want to block this feature request by some other
>> feature request on debbugs (I haven't yet checked whether the latter
>> request already exists or not).
>>
>
> May I suggest that it would be great if debbugs was to support a standard like OSLC-CM for bug submission through REST POSTs (through HTTP/HTTPs) and reportbug would speak this standard as a client.
so you should have sent this comment to 590269, where it's actually
requested the http submission feature in debbugs, not on the reportbug
bug, that's downstream of 590269.
> See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565513 which already proposed some ideas regarding OSLC-CM.
>
> IMHO, REST offers many advantages over SOAP in this respect (including the ability to interlink bugs using linked-data approach), and OSLC-CM may some day become a standard for interoperability between bugtrackers, so other tools than reportbug could be used too (more likely candidate so far : Mylyn in Eclipse).
Anyhow, I find it rather odd to call OSLC-CM "standard" or "more
standard than SOAP", since I've never heard of it, and I worked a lot
on interoperability between heterogeneous systems, where I find SOAP
(or plain REST) a lot more usable than any other rich format. The
lower the entry level, the easier for tools & people to adapt to it.
SOAP it's already available on BTS side, so it has definitely and
advantage over others.
Anyhow, it's a decision debbugs owner has to take, and so this is only
a comment; i'll just use what will be available.
Regards,
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