Re: ANNC: New Debbugs
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:54:25AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > What I would like to see in the discussion that results from this email,
> > are new features people would like to see implemented. I'll start it off
> > with the list of features I plan on implementing.
>
> * A way to programatically access BTS content w/o parsing HTML. A
> specified schema, whether it's XML, LDAP, SQL, whatever.
>
> Why: it would be very nice to be able to write a front-end to the BTS to
> correctly read and manipulate bugs. THere have been a couple of stabs
> at this before, but all foundered on the weight of parsing the HTML (or
> perhaps lack of interest, or a combination.) There was, at one time,
> IIRC, LDAP access, but it was an incomplete one-off, with no commitment
> to maintain it.
The WNPP web pages still use it.
http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/devel/wnpp/wnpp.pl?cvsroot=webwml
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