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We don't support all of the Bugzilla query options. A convenient way to address this would be to allow users to enter a custom query that they paste from their browser, and in this way support any query that can be specified via the web ui.
Well, to add support for just copying and pasting a query would be very simple. If the query is for a customized version of bugzilla, we could potentially still run into the same problems of our parser being unable to extract the reports returned from the query.
(In reply to comment #1) > Well, to add support for just copying and pasting a query would be very > simple. If the query is for a customized version of bugzilla, we could > potentially still run into the same problems of our parser being unable to > extract the reports returned from the query. How difficult would be to implement the parser? I can try to get some support from Collabnet to help with this (probably not java stuff but the details about customization). Perhaps there is some need to have per-bugzilla-repository flags for availablility of the different capabilities. E.g.: -- Query Wizard -- Query Parser -- Issue Wizard -- Issue Editor So, with CollabNet we would have to implement only query parser and use web UI for everything else.
Just the simple thing, of allowing a custom query, seems worth doing (not necessarily this week). Should it just be an option on top of the query page, where you can either paste in a URL (which will disable all the other fields) or you can fill in the query fields as we do now? That seems nice and simple.
Shawn: could you give Eugene some pointers about what it would take to make the parser work? It seems like the best thing to do is to get the custom queries working first, and then see what CollabNet specific customizations are needed.
(In reply to comment #3) > Just the simple thing, of allowing a custom query, seems worth doing (not > necessarily this week). > > Should it just be an option on top of the query page, where you can either paste > in a URL (which will disable all the other fields) or you can fill in the query > fields as we do now? That seems nice and simple. Damn! We soo need multiple repositories support. Then it will be easier to build a wizard and let user to choose between two query types by default (custom and basic). It also looks like Eclipse Bugzilla plugin already has support for some fields that Mylar doesn't...
Yes, it does, and we really do need to combine efforts. The great thing is that we have all the pieces! I'll try to respond your message to mylar-dev today or early tomorrow. Btw, we've already done a bunch of work to enable integrating with multiple reposiories and merging efforts with Jeff Pound. It's summarized in a bunch of messages on the following thread: http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/mylar-dev/msg00019.html
The tasklist now has a notion of a query and the idea of a custom query has been added for bugzilla. This means that you can cut and paste a url to create a query. As for support of other bug systems like collabnet, new bugs should be created as the need arises
