Re: gdb-7.11.1 re-spin update

Simon Marchi
2016-05-03T15:01:55Z

On 16-05-03 10:30 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Simon Marchi wrote:
>
>> I think that this particular problem could be efficiently solved with scripting.
>> Apparently, Bugzilla now has an API [1], although I can't find how to use it on
>> the sourceware BZ, maybe it's too old.
>>
>> If that API was accessible, it should be easy to write a script that prints a
>> nicely formatted list of all issues with target milestone == 7.11.1, ready to
>> copy paste in the email. It could also tell which issues are still open and warn
>> if any of these doesn't have an assignee. So it could give you a quick overview
>> of the state of the release.
>
> The REST API definitely works for sourceware Bugzilla; we use it for glibc
> to generate a list of fixed bugs for the NEWS file.
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py;h=51f3c36e693a67978ba58706499db132fefe1e4e;hb=HEAD

Thanks, I'll have a look!

Just glancing at it quickly, it very much looks like what I was describing :).