Re: Did some bugzilla cleanups

So, everyone (but merely the infrastructure dudes), here's another status update WITH source code. Please don't run this without filling in your bugzilla credentials! (and if you did, "rm -f pickle*" prior to next run) Attached is the set of scripts to sync owners.list files to bugzilla (remotely, i.e. via the normal web interface). Since the last status updates, the script has been run twice a day as a cronjob. 1. extract the tarball in a working-directory 2. open "rpmfusion.conf" 3. enter your bugzilla account email and password in the [bugzilla] section That account MUST have "editcomponents" permission (a special account with just that permission could be created). 4. execute "RUN.sh" once During the first run it will create the missing files ("pickle*") in current dir and take longer than normal for every owners.list entry that has people in "initialcclist". As why, see bottom paragraph in this mail. Notice the warning on stderr about duplicate entries in some of the owners.list files. ;) This is stuff that must be fixed in those files. 5. execute "RUN.sh" again This time you should not see as many update status messages as previously (as it could use the pickle files). (5.2 try once more with a modified owners.list in svn) 6. enable option "-q" (quiet) in RUN.sh to kill normal stdout messages as appropriate for cron jobs [...] Why more than one script? Python modules for reusability. Even the modules can be run as scripts (use -h or --help) for testing, btw. There's the old "CheckOwnersList" script that can compare repository contents with an owners.list file and print missing entries (where only the email addresses must be substituted!). E.g. for RPM Fusion Fedora free devel: $ python CheckOwnersList -c rpmfusion.conf -p free-rawhide Reading repository metadata... free-rawhide - Packages in repos: 144 Packages in owners.list: 155 Nothing missing, so no further output. [...] Compared with Livna, a couple of changes have been necessary to make the scripts work with RPM Fusion: - the bugzilla version uses special tokens to combat fraud -- this required ugly enhancements in the scripts - the well-known "describecomponents.cgi" web page doesn't list the members of the Cc list but only name, description, owner -- due to that it's not possible to simply compare bz's list of "components" with owners.list since they don't cover the same details. The missing details are filled in from a local cache (Python pickle files maintained during each run). - the "default QA contact" field is not used and unavailable compared with Livna - that required a flag in the web page parser [...] And finally, although this [still] works, another solution would be to look into modifying the bugzilla database tables directly and deal with the different requirements (srv/db access and such). Fedora's scripts probably would not be compatible because Red Hat's bugzilla is different (just a guess).