Re: xml-rpc

[Luis Villa <louie novell com>]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 14:09 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Luis,
> 
> Quoting Luis Villa <louie novell com>:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:46 +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > > Having XMLRPC support for bugzilla is certainly tempting
> > > but I'd only do this iff
> > > a) there a real users
> > > b) this provides major benefits that cannot be had otherwise
> > 
> > I haven't looked at (c) (I've just taken it for granted that RH has
> > investigated the issue) but (a) and (b) are definitely the case.
> 
> I don't know too much about xml-rpc, so this might be a silly question... 
> who are the users, and what are the benefits? 

Well, as I mentioned above, bug-buddy will be a user, and the benefits
there are large- remove the dependency on a working sendmail setup,
which many people don't have.

The RH bug tool could be another API consumer. It certainly seems that
for the RH crowd this has replaced the web UI, so I'd guess that for the
heavy bugzilla-using crowd on these lists it would hopefully be able to
do the same.

> I seem to recall seeing someone say something about this interface 
> being used somewhere in Ximian, but I'm pretty shady on the whole thing...

bugzilla.ximian.com doesn't have it. Frankly, we're likely to move to
bugzilla.novell.com before we get xml-rpc working on poor, ancient
b.x.c.

Luis