Malone UI changes

[Christian Robottom Reis]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:35:58PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> bughelper and python-launchpad-bugs are now part of Ubuntu's
> infrastructure. We use these tools to 
> 
>       * find certain classes of bugs
>       * modify masses of bugs at the same time
>       * file bugs
>       * integrate small tools with Launchpad
> 
> For python-launchpad-bugs to do its work, we parse Launchpad HTML. Even
> subtle changes break the code every now and then. We have to find them
> out manually.

The first question I have is: what's missing in the +text version of
the bug that leads you to parsing HTML? Here is a sample:

    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1/+text

We also have a +bugs-text listing for searches, but that appears to be
non-functional (and I'm not sure why, but if you had been using it you'd
have complained by now :-)

> Still it'd be nice to have a way to understand UI changes better and to
> be aware of them. This includes new columns in tables, new required
> arguments for HTML forms and so on.
> 
> What can we do to stay in the loop and not have to do work manually?

I doubt there's a way to avoid "manual work" if you are parsing HTML.

However, it is much easier for us to communicate updates to our
parseable exports; we could even version them conveniently.
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