Re: gdb-7.11.1 re-spin update

Joseph Myers
2016-05-03T14:31:15Z

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

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Joseph S. Myers
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