patches and attachments should be listed separately in bug reports

Also I think useful feature might be adding of few attachment instantly instead of upload one attachment, then again choose 'Add a comment/attachment' and upload next.

Hi

I'm also very interested in having info on whether a specific attachment is a patch in the text output (/+text). It would also to export that information to Ultimate Debian Database, for example.

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On 08.12.2009 23:50, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm also very interested in having info on whether a specific attachment
> is a patch in the text output (/+text). It would also to export that
> information to Ultimate Debian Database, for example.
>

Lucas, did you consider to use Launchpad's webservice API
(https://edge.launchpad.net/+apidoc/#bug_attachment ,
https://help.launchpad.net/API/)?

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Yes. The full context is that I'm importing all bugs affecting Ubuntu into Ultimate Debian Database on a daily basis, which takes a few hour. I discussed this with the LP team at UDS, and it is not clear that switching to using the API would provide any benefit (it might also require more HTTP requests than using the text interface).

So I don't plan to rewrite my code for now.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/231402 for a tentative discussion of what it would take to really improve the situation for me.

Fixed in devel r10016 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel/revision/10016>

@Diogo: does that fix the +text format as well?

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On 09.12.2009 21:57, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> @Diogo: does that fix the +text format as well?
>

Unfortunately not :( (Diogo is periodically running a script that
searches bzr commit messages for strings like "[bug=1234]" and updates
the related bug's status)
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Just to offer a bit more about what is fixed and not in the branch that was committed.....

We did not do the work to make this visible in +text. The API is the preferred way to get info out of Launchpad now. I realize this doesn't work for Lucas and possibly some others, but given the amount of pending work for the bugs team and our focus on using Launchpad's API, we won't be doing any work to update the +text interface. I know some will be disappointed, and I'm sorry about this.

We would, of course, accept branches from a contributor to update +text, but the full time bugs team is not going to work on this.

Technically, the change suggested by Lucas quite simple. I have a few spare cycles I could spend on this before going AWOL^W into holidays. But I am not sure about possible side-effects: If we split the patches into a separate list on the +text page, existing other scripts will break...

...erm, other scripts _could_ break...

bah, the text interface is not the recommended way to export data from LP anyway ;) and well written parsers would not break.

Another solution would be to fork the text interface into a "/+udd" interface or something. But the maintenance might be harder in the long run.

I'll leave it to Abel to decided if he can spare the cycles here. I suspect it will be more than is imaged, just based on how "it's an easy fix" comments usually end up. :)

And to be fair, there are lots of little bugs on malone right now that would also be easy fixes that bring wider benefit then applying this change to the +text interface. But if you're already in the code and it *really* is a small change, then by all means... :)