Donnerstag, 15. März 2007

KBugBuster

Originally posted for SoC 2006

mprove KBugBuster (the KDE client to Bugzilla) to support the full functionality of Bugzilla.

KBugBuster is a native KDE client for Bugzilla. It lives in kdesdk (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/kbugbuster/ ). It is able to access a variety of different Bugzilla versions by different technologies depending on what the specific Bugzilla version provides. This goes from screen scraping over XML access to a dedicated mail interface.

There wasn't much real development activity for quite some time, so KBugBuster would need to be checked against the current Bugzilla versions. There is also some functionality missing like correctly changing and writing back bugs and a decent caching strategy. It also would need some work in terms of the user interface. One very useful feature would be some clever support for resolving duplicates. There certainly are other interesting ideas which could be realized in the GUI.

3 Kommentare:

stefon hat gesagt…

again the question.. should this be done for the kde4 version or the current stabke kde 3.5.6 ?

Wolf hat gesagt…

Which one has more potential for the future?

stefon hat gesagt…

kde4 is scheduled to be released in october 2007.
the thing is that kde4 uses qt4, kde3 qt3.
so my recommendation is to program it for kde4.