inline BB (was Re: do you know enough about what (other) Bazaar developers are doing?)

[Daniel Watkins]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:22:36 -0400
Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> wrote:
> Daniel Watkins wrote:
> > BB, like PQM, stores received emails on disk.  I would propose that
> > the XMLRPC stuff just add an email there
> 
> So what's the advantage of XMLRPC, then?
More immediate feedback, so people can be sure that BB has received
their submission.

It would also be easier to get more accurate input.  For example, the
submission method could have an 'expected_target' parameter, which
could be matched against the calculated project name and an error
raised if they don't match.

Furthermore, it would make changing what information BB accepts easier.
You can just add an optional parameter to the submission method and
don't need to worry about updating the parsing of emails.  Assuming
we have control of the submission plugins, then ensuring the inclusion
of such information in an appropriate format by the submitters also
becomes easier.

Looking more generally than just the BB instance we use this would:
  * allow people without email support (or lacking easy access to email
    configuration) where they want to host BB to use it
  * allow people who are scared of email configuration to get going
    with BB much more easily
  * reduce setup time (as the web UI and the XMLRPC submission would,
    presumably, both be part of the Turbogears setup)


Dan

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Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke)
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