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On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 15:41, C.J. Collier wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>bugzilla would do well to decentralize. Each bugzilla server should
communicate with others. Bug reports should be shared between projects.</I></FONT></PRE>
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<FONT SIZE="3">This is the some of the motivating push behind web services. Maybe the thing to do is to take some some time and polish the XML schema, implement XML-RPC and then publish/register the WSDL in a UDDI as described here:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsdl3/?dwzone=webservices"><FONT SIZE="3">http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-wsdl3/?dwzone=webservices</FONT></A><BR>
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Though Bugzilla would have to change a bit to enable a flexible authorization system the storage requirements (in at least one design) shouldn't cause an issue since you would just need to store a GUID which would be used for subsequent display of details. And you obviously would not want queries to be across referenced reports.<BR>
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There are a couple of other advantage to doing this...<BR>
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Last I looked there wasn't a WSDL for quality assurance defect reports. Bugzilla define and promulgate this standard. By advancing the adoption of a standard you probably would enhance the adoption of Bugzilla itself since this level of interoperability doesn't much excist in the commercial world. And I know from my experience that most complex commercial undertakings usually require of multiple corporate development groups. And there is the positive attribute of providing external components interfaces to the Bugzilla system which are decoupled from MySQL and perl modules. <BR>
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But I guess all that takes time and resources, doesn't it? </FONT><IMG SRC="cid:1052524551.1463.1934.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0">
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