Summer of Code?!
Tim
Leo Simons wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:57:04AM +0100, Tim Ellison wrote:
>> Is there any way we can couple the mailing list postings to JIRA?
>
> Interesting question! I'm sure it should be possible :-)
>
>> I often find it hard to go back and find the -dev list discussions we
>> have had for particular issues. If we could have links from JIRA to a
>> mail archive of subject headers containing HARMONY-XYZ tags that would
>> be great.
>
> Heh, one alternative is to use a better mailer :-)
>
> In mutt you go...
>
> / ~s HARMONY-XYZ
>
> and if I want to go really fancy I'll usually do
>
> !mairix bs:HARMONY-XYZ
> c ~/mailsearch
>
> to search cross-list and deeply into archives. Of course, apple users will
> just go
>
> apple+space HARMONY-XYZ
>
> it'll take minutes instead of seconds but it kinda works too if you keep
> your mail volume down and use Apple Mail.
>
> In any case, it should be possible to create a webapp tool that does
> this kind of thing, eg
>
> 1) get list of jira prefixes
> 2) get list of mbox files
> 3) correlate using (HARMONY|INFRASTRUCTURE|MAVEN|GERONIMO|...)-[0-9]+
> 3a) collapse threads, keep only first message id in a thread
> 4) get list of mailing list corresponding to jira prefixes
> 5) for each match, construct the mail-archives.apache.org URL
> using that list
> 6) use the jira interface to figure out whether the message id
> was already mentioned, if not, post a comment listing the
> message id and the mail-archives URL
>
> Neat little task. Lets find a volunteer :-). Maybe posting to infrastructure@
> or site-dev@ will help...
>
> LSD
>
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Tim Ellison (t.p.ellison@gmail.com)
IBM Java technology centre, UK.
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