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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">Let me introduce myself. My name is Roger Lipp. I’m in sunny San Jose, California working for Hewlett-Packard.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">I’m interested in helping out with the WebServices API for bugzilla. I’ve been working in Perl for longer than I’d really care to admit. I also do webservices
with RoR and django.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">I have been struggling to get a command-line tool to interface to bugzilla webservices through a corporate firewall. I love the “bugzilla” cli tool that is part
of the bugzilla package (I believe this was provided in order to demonstrate the webservices interface). But I was not able to get it to work through our firewall. After searching through Google for a while, I decided to write a simple tool that was based
on a firewall-friendly xmlrpc library. For this I chose to use “ruby”. I kept the script simple enough to easily expose the method of using WebServices, while functional enough to be useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">I would love to contribute my work to bugzilla, perhaps as a “ruby example of using the webservices api”, or as a command-line interface that works behind a corporate
firewall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">Is this of interest?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444">Roger Lipp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#444444"><a href="mailto:roger.lipp@hp.com">roger.lipp@hp.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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