Re: [gnome-love] Tinderbox (automatic daily build) for GNOME

[Sergio Villar Senin <svillar igalia com>]

Olav Vitters wrote:
> On 4/4/06, Sergio Villar Senin <svillar igalia com> wrote:
>
> >   * integration with GNOME Bugzilla
>
>
> Bugzilla in general could be difficult, but GNOME Bugzilla can be
> done, providing the client somehow knows the Bugzilla product. Not all
> modules built by jhbuild are on b.g.o, some might be on
> bugs.freedesktop.org or elsewhere. It should also not spam the
> developers, so it must be sure it is actually a bug before
> automatically filing it. E.g. if it builds something for the first
> time and it doesn't work, it probably is some configuration error.
>
> The server should be responsible for filing the bugs, otherwise we
> might have 100 bugs filed at the same time. Plus it should avoid
> filing the same bug over and over again.

I think I didn't explain it enough. What I'm trying to say with
"integration with GNOME Bugzilla" is the usual integration between
tinderbox and bugzilla, that's it, the tinderbox inserts links to the
bugs solved by each checkin into the status pages. Currently this
integration works if both tools are located in the same machine.
Integration with remote Bonsai and Bugzilla are in Mike Taylor's todo
list, so maybe it will be available soon.

I do not suggest to automatically submit bugs, I think this is a human
task. IMHO I could be better do send a mail (we currently do it here in
our projects), don't you think so?

> >   * security concerns: remote administration of the server, client
> > authentication...

When talking about client authentication I'm talking about email
authentication with email signing or something like this.
> Plus the cross site scripting stuff (the jhbuild xml-rpc one sends
> html to the server, that is a no-no).
Good point, I didn't realize it.

Regards