[PATCH] bugzilla: support sendbugmail.pl

Benoit Boissinot bboissin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 12:51:01 CDT 2008


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 05:40:42PM +0000, Jim Hague wrote:
> My concern is that this would not be backwards compatible with any existing 
> installation that already has a bugzilla/notify string set in their config. 
> They will have a string 'something %s' and will get an unexpected expansion.

On the other hand, nothing in the current help mentions how the expansion
works. People trying to use their existing config with another bugzilla
will have problems too (because it needs to expand 2 items).
> 
> If we do break current config, I think it would make sense to split the config 
> into 'Bugzilla install directory' and 'notify' items. Document the former as 
> a required config, and notification should theoretically just work. In fact 
> currently the script permissions may need to be relaxed on a standard install 
> to allow the script to be run by the Hg process.

I don't know enough about bugzilla to comment, sorry :/

regards,

Benoit

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