Re: bug-buddy integration

[Matt Keenan <Matt Keenan Sun COM>]

On 11/03/2009 13:56, Jonh Wendell wrote:
> Hi, folks.
>
> We from Brazilian team are discussing about the best option to report
> bugs related with translations.
>
> An optimal solution is to have bug-buddy integrated into applications,
> in the menu "Help->Report a bug or wish". This would call bug-buddy, the
> user would select the severity of the bug (translation, bug,
> suggestion), enter the bug itself and then would hit the 'send' button.
> Simple like that.
>
> Ubuntu does something similar, but the negative points are:
> - Ubuntu packagers have to patch lots of applications;
> - The bug reports go to launchpad, ubuntu only;
> - The launchpad interface is English-only, where bug-buddy is translated
> into the user language;
>
> Perhaps bug-buddy could be configurable to send reports to another place
> instead of only bugzilla.gnome.

I know this is something (Sun), are definitely interested in and are looking 
into. We'd like bug-buddy to send reports to OpenSolars bugzilla 
(defects.opensolaris.org). Configureable bug database a definite plus.

Matt

> Ideas?