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Bug 324599

Summary:	request for Novell/Suse iChain-variant of Mylyn Bugzilla connector; pybugzilla api source included
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	_ <b3788686>
Component:	Mylyn	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mylyn-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	robert.elves, robert.munteanu
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	328723

Description _

2010-09-06 16:33:58 EDT

Build Identifier: Helios Release, 20100617-1415

Novell/Suse/openSUSE use a modified version of Bugzilla that integrates their proprietary 'iChain' SSO authentication.

This breaks the 'standard' Mylyn Bugzilla connector's ability to authenticate to their bugzilla.

The required info/method for getting @ the iChain auth format is, I've been told, described here:

 "a Python interface to Novell Bugzilla using xmlrpclib"
  https://fedorahosted.org/python-bugzilla/browser/bugzilla/nvlbugzilla.py

ironically, _not_ @ Novell project.

Given the size/prominence of those projects, it would be 'nice to have' an out-of-the-box connector for Mylyn.  Chances of @Novell (a) re-standardizing their auth, or (b) writing a Mylyn connector for their setup are -- after querying a bit -- somewhere between slim and none.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Steffen Pingel

2010-10-26 10:31:26 EDT

Thank you for your request. It does not fall into the core scope of the project and due to time constraints we are unable to resolve it at the moment. The bug has been marked helpwanted though to indicate that we would be happy to support a community contribution to resolve it.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2022-11-15 11:45:08 EST

Mylyn has been restructured, and our issue tracking has moved to GitHub [1].

We are closing ~14K Bugzilla issues to give the new team a fresh start. If you feel that this issue is still relevant, please create a new one on GitHub.

[1] https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-mylyn