[Sugar-devel] Using Trac via email

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:05:56PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:19:52PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>>> ...and finally creating an account for myself at that Trac thingy.  
>>>> Does it have an email interface, [...]
>>> There's a Trac plugin for creating new tickets for incoming emails, 
>>> but nothing to manipulate (including commenting on) existing bug 
>>> reports. :(
>> There's a Perl Net::Trac module: 
>> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Trac/ but I failed to locate any 
>> sample scripts atually using it.
> It'd probably be best to write/use a Trac plugin instead, as the 
> XML-RPC interface obviously needs online access. There's a generic one 
> for email interfaces [1] that includes creating a new ticket as a 
> sample script, but probably could be used to manipulate tickets as 
> well.

I would be more interested in a terminal-based generic Trac client, even 
if it had no offline mode, than an email-based Sugar-spcific interface.

Why?  Because I am involved in many projects, not only Sugar, and I do 
not want to juggle too many custom interfaces.


So if Trac generically had some client-server ABI that I could expect 
would be available at many other Trac installations, then sure it would 
make more sense to use that in favor of some externally hacked-together 
Perl library.  But it seems to me that Trac do *not* have such ABI, only 
a server-side API that could be used to _develop_ some custom 
client-server interaction creature.

Mailman also has no client-server ABI.  I quite efficiently handle 
moderator duties with the Perl-based "listadmin" tool.  It is an ugly 
hack for an ugly web-only interface, and I would not expect to find 
anything nicer for Trac.

I was hoping to find something comparable to PyBugz: 
http://www.liquidx.net/pybugz/

Apparently no such thing currently exist.


> As always, somebody with enough time needs to step up to actually do 
> the work...

Not always: only until someone does the work, in a good enough quality 
that it is kept alive, if not by the author then by others with interest 
in same tool.


  - Jonas

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