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-<appendix id="patches" xreflabel="Useful Patches and Utilities for Bugzilla">
- <title>Contrib</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a number of unofficial Bugzilla add-ons in the
- <filename class="directory">$BUGZILLA_ROOT/contrib/</filename>
- directory. This section documents them.
- </para>
-
- <section id="cmdline">
- <title>Command-line Search Interface</title>
-
- <para>
- There are a suite of Unix utilities for searching Bugzilla from the
- command line. They live in the
- <filename class="directory">contrib/cmdline</filename> directory.
- There are three files - <filename>query.conf</filename>,
- <filename>buglist</filename> and <filename>bugs</filename>.
- </para>
-
- <warning>
- <para>
- These files pre-date the templatization work done as part of the
- 2.16 release, and have not been updated.
- </para>
- </warning>
-
- <para>
- <filename>query.conf</filename> contains the mapping from
- options to field names and comparison types. Quoted option names
- are <quote>grepped</quote> for, so it should be easy to edit this
- file. Comments (#) have no effect; you must make sure these lines
- do not contain any quoted <quote>option</quote>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>buglist</filename> is a shell script that submits a
- Bugzilla query and writes the resulting HTML page to stdout.
- It supports both short options, (such as <quote>-Afoo</quote>
- or <quote>-Rbar</quote>) and long options (such
- as <quote>--assignedto=foo</quote> or <quote>--reporter=bar</quote>).
- If the first character of an option is not <quote>-</quote>, it is
- treated as if it were prefixed with <quote>--default=</quote>.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The column list is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable.
- This is equivalent to the <quote>Change Columns</quote> option
- that is available when you list bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have
- already used Bugzilla, grep for COLUMNLIST in your cookies file
- to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <filename>bugs</filename> is a simple shell script which calls
- <filename>buglist</filename> and extracts the
- bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix
- <quote>http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=</quote>
- turns the bug list into a working link if any bugs are found.
- Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the results through
- <command>sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'</command>
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Akkana Peck says she has good results piping
- <filename>buglist</filename> output through
- <command>w3m -T text/html -dump</command>
- </para>
-
- </section>
-
- <section id="cmdline-bugmail">
- <title>Command-line 'Send Unsent Bug-mail' tool</title>
-
- <para>
- Within the <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory
- exists a utility with the descriptive (if compact) name
- of <filename>sendunsentbugmail.pl</filename>. The purpose of this
- script is, simply, to send out any bug-related mail that should
- have been sent by now, but for one reason or another has not.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To accomplish this task, <filename>sendunsentbugmail.pl</filename> uses
- the same mechanism as the <filename>sanitycheck.cgi</filename> script;
- it scans through the entire database looking for bugs with changes that
- were made more than 30 minutes ago, but where there is no record of
- anyone related to that bug having been sent mail. Having compiled a list,
- it then uses the standard rules to determine who gets mail, and sends it
- out.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- As the script runs, it indicates the bug for which it is currently
- sending mail; when it has finished, it gives a numerical count of how
- many mails were sent and how many people were excluded. (Individual
- user names are not recorded or displayed.) If the script produces
- no output, that means no unsent mail was detected.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- <emphasis>Usage</emphasis>: move the sendunsentbugmail.pl script
- up into the main directory, ensure it has execute permission, and run it
- from the command line (or from a cron job) with no parameters.
- </para>
- </section>
-
-</appendix>
-
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