BugLink parsing

[Brad Figg]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:45:17AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Andy and Brad,
>>
>> I'm really liking the kernel patches that I've seen lately that have a
>> BugLink field, and I've been thinking that we should adopt the use of
>> 'BugLink:' and stop using 'Bug:' in our templates altogether. However, I
>> need some changes made to scripts/misc/git-ubuntu-log in the various git
>> repos, so since you're both my resident perl experts, I'd like one of
>> you to make the following changes:
>>
>> 1) Add support for parsing the bug number from a BugLink and place it in
>> the changelog entry in a form that the Launchpad upload bot understands
>> (i.e., '- LP: #NNNN') such that we can get automatic changelog goodness
>> in each referenced bug.
>>
>> 2) Modify all of the commit templates in all of the repos such that
>> BugLink is preferred. Perhaps even delete the 'Bug:' field from the
>> template altogether.
>>
>> I think there are a couple of good reasons for doing this.
>>
>> 1) I'm a lazy typist. I find it quite convenient to simply click on the
>> Buglink URL and be presented with the bug page.
>>
>> 2) The 'Bug:' field implies a certain context, which is useless when
>> pushing our patches upstream. Rather then having to cleanse patches of
>> irrelevant information, lets put it in the commit in an interesting and
>> useful form to begin with. I suspect, given the feedback that Amit has
>> already received from Andrew Morton, that the 'Bug:' field will not be
>> well received in general.
>>
>> 3) Finally, if we start developing for the upstream kernel (as we will
>> if I get my way), we can take advantage of BugLink goodness
>> automatically as our upstream patches show up in stable and other places.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> Like the sound of it.  I have seen a number of links to bugzillas and
> think we should be doing the same.  The fixes are likely simple, will
> get with brad and figure out who is going to push the buttons.
> 
> -apw

I have the changes implemented and some initial testing done.

I can make it so that:

   1. If there is a "Bug: #" line and no "BugLink:" line that the LP url
      is automatically created.
   2. If there is a "BugLink:" line and no "Bug: #" the "LP: #" is extracted
      from the URL if it is a "bugs.launchpad.net" url.

That seem reasonable? It does to me.


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