[GNC] [GNC-dev] Bugs.gnucash.org Up and Running

[Derek Atkins]

John,

On Fri, July 6, 2018 10:43 am, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Richard,
>>
>> Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> Some links are pointing back to gnome bugzilla.
>>>
>>> See comment 3 on https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796665
>>
>> The reason for this is that the commentor (YOU!) explicity put in the
>> URL instead of using the appropriate shorthand "Bug #796665".
>>
>> At this point I know of no way to fix this.
>>
>
> That said, references to non-gnucash bugs using the shorthand will
> probably get a bad URL because we didn’t copy all of Gnome’s database.
> There’s no reasonable way to fix that either.
>
> That’s also unlikely to be the only kind of stale URLs in the bug
> database. The internet has changed a lot over the last 17 years (the
> oldest bug, 58566, was opened 2001-08-05).

I suspect I could write a script using the Perl interface that would
search for any references like this, and possibly hand-modify the SQL
tables that need adjusting.   If nothing else I can look for any comment
references to bugzilla.gnome.org or a bug# that's not in the database.

Actually, I can probably do that in the json!  So there are 361 bugs that
have a reference to "show_bug.cgi".  Only 287 of those reference
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi.

Searching for "Bug # xxx" which wasn't imported is going to be harder.

I'm not sure what to change the bugzilla.gnome.org references to...

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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