On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> > > 1. is there any way to aggregate over multiple public branches in order
> > > to get the complete bug state
> > 
> > Keeping the bug data with the source helps synchronize bug state and
> > source code.  Bug state in branch A may not apply to branch B.  Some
> > people like to weaken this source-bug linkage by keeping their bugs in
> > a branch all by themselves (ditz [http://ditz.rubyforge.org/]
> > currently supports this workflow).  It sounds like you want to move
> > from "bugs with code" to "bugs and code in separate branches".  We
> > don't have an easy way to do that in BE at the moment, since
> > version-control systems like Git have a single working branch at a
> > time (I think :p).  What VCS are you using as a backend?
>
> the basic idea is to take a look at all public branches (for exaple all
> on lp/bitbucket/github) in order to tell the user of a webinterface that
> bug foo is fixed in branch xyz, and if its merged to the main branch

Hmm.  

> > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
> > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
> > 
> >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
> > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
> >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
> > to grab it.
> so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed

Well, it's going to be managed by somebody ;).  So far I'm not
convinced enough for the manager to be me, so I'm suggesting it be you
:p.

> and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?

I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
whatever encoding you've configured.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
> 
> How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
> VCS model means that set is indeterminate.

He could just make a list of branches he likes.

Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
static multi-repo summary?

The easiest implementation I can think of would be to keep local
branches (on whatever computer is hosting your web interface)
following your favorite repos.
  proxectX/
  |-- repoA
  |-- repoB
  `-- repoC
You'd pull upstream changes with a cron job.
Listing bugs would be something along the lines of
  projectX$ for repo in *
            do
              pushd $repo
              be list
	      popd
            done | sort | uniq
Then to show bug status you would have something like
  projectX$ for repo in *
            do
              echo $repo
              pushd $repo
              be show ${BUGID}
              popd
            done
For a web frontend, you'd want to translate that to python/libbe.

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