bugzillatools consists of the bugzilla CLI program and a Python library for interacting with the Bugzilla bug tracking system, and plugins for version control systems that enable interaction with Bugzilla installations.

The only dependency is Python 2.7 and bugzillatools works with Bugzilla 4.0 or later where the XML-RPC feature is enabled.

Installation

# via pip
pip install bugzillatools         # as superuser
  -or-
pip install bugzillatools --user  # user site-packages installation

# from source
python setup.py install           # as superuser
  -or-
python setup.py install --user    # user site-packages installation

The bin/ directory in your user base directory will need to appear on the PATH if installing to user site-packages. This directory is system dependent; see PEP 370.

If installing to user site-packages, some manual moving or symlinking of files will be required for the Bazaar plugin to be detected by Bazaar. PEP 402 speaks to this shortcoming.

Components

bugzilla program

Command-line application for interacting with Bugzilla servers. The following subcommands are available:

assign:	Assign bugs to the given user.
block:	Show or update block list of given bugs.
cc:	Show or update CC List.
comment:	List comments or file a comment on the given bugs.
config:	Show or update configuration.
depend:	Show or update dependencies of given bugs.
desc:	Show the description of the given bug(s).
dump:	Print internal representation of bug data.
edit:	Edit the given bugs.
fields:	List valid values for bug fields.
help:	Show help.
history:	Show the history of the given bugs.
info:	Show detailed information about the given bugs.
list:	Show a one-line summary of the given bugs.
new:	File a new bug.
priority:	Set the priority on the given bugs.
products:	List the products of a Bugzilla instance.
search:	Search for bugs matching given criteria.
status:	Set the status of the given bugs.
time:	Show or adjust times and estimates for the given bugs.

bzlib

Library providing access to Bugzilla instances through the XML-RPC interface. Supports bug creation, bug information and comment retrieval, updating bug fields and appending comments to bugs.

Bazaar plugin

This plugin, when enabled for Bugzilla bugtrackers, marks bugs fixed on those trackers when bzr commit is invoked with the --fixes argument. It also adds a comment to the bug that includes the branch location, the commit message, the list of changed files and other details about the commit.

The Bazaar plugin requires Bazaar 2.0 or later.

Configuration

.bugzillarc

The bugzilla program looks for its configuration in ~/.bugzillarc, which uses ini-style configuration.

core

server

Name of the default server

alias

Option names are aliases; their values are the replacement.

server.<name>

Define a server. bugzillatools supports multiple servers; the --server=<name> argument can be used to select a server.

url

Base URL of the Bugzilla server (mandatory)

user

Bugzilla username (optional)

password

Bugzilla password (optional)

assign_status

When the assign command is used, if the current status of a bug is in the first list, the status will be updated to the second item. The format is: <oldstatus>[,<oldstatus>]* <newstatus>. An appropriate value for the default Bugzilla workflow might be: "UNCONFIRMED,CONFIRMED IN_PROGRESS".

default_product

If provided and if the provided string corresponds to the name of a product on this server, use that product as the default. The user will still be prompted to confirm.

Example .bugzillarc

[core]
server = example

[server.example]
url = http://bugzilla.example.com
user = [email protected]
password = sekrit

[alias]
fix = status --status RESOLVED --resolution FIXED
wfm = status --status RESOLVED --resolution WORKSFORME
confirm = status --status CONFIRMED

Bazaar plugin

To enable the Bazaar bugzillatools plugin, include following configuration directives in either ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf (global configuration) or .bzr/branch/branch.conf (within a branch):

bugzilla_<server>_bugzillatools_enable = True
bugzilla_<server>_url = <bugzilla url>
bugzilla_<server>_status = RESOLVED
bugzilla_<server>_resolution = FIXED

Such a configuration assumes that a section [server.<server>] has been defined in your .bugzillarc.

You can now set the status of bugs (using the status and resolution defined in the Bazaar config) directly:

bzr commit -m 'fix bug 123' --fixes <server>:123

License

bugzillatools is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Contributing

The bugzillatools source code is available from https://github.com/frasertweedale/bugzillatools.

Bug reports, patches, feature requests, code review and documentation are welcomed.

To submit a patch, please use git send-email or generate a pull request. Write a well formed commit message. If your patch is nontrivial, update the copyright notice at the top of each changed file.