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. 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). Hope this helps. P.S.: we're currently working on a OSLC-CM addon for Mantis FWIW. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
