BugLink parsing

[Andy Whitcroft]

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