Port submission used to be fully automatic thanks to `port submit` from ports-mgmt/porttools. Since migration to bugzilla this no longer works and has to be done manually. I believe this regression will significantly reduce quality and quantity of port updates and must be resolved ASAP.
Added maintainer of ports-mgmt/porttools to provide feedback
port submit used GNATS send-pr(1). Once we have a command line interface to submitting bugs to FreeBSD's bugzilla, I'll happily integrate that. So far I'm unaware of any CLI in any version including 11.0-CURRENT that can be used to submit bugs. In my opinion the issue is not that much ports-mgmt/porttools not being able to submit, but FreeBSD users in general not having any tool in base that can be used to submit bugs. (I may be wrong. In case we *do* have any send-pr-ish tool in base, now would be a good moment to let me know about it ;-)
FreeBSD support page does not mention anything but perhaps any generic bugzilla client will do ? I've tried textproc/py-bugzillatools but unfortunately it seems broken.
I doubt any python tool will ever arrive in base; it'd mean having to import python into base and that is highly unlikely to my best knowledge.
Oh I didn't mean that. Perhaps having something in base could be useful but in the mean time I see nothing wrong with depending on another port, since all port maintenance tools are in ports too.
I'd prefer a solution to submit bugs from within base. Do feel free to provide patches, if you have an idea how porttools can achieve that. You can find the source of the submit script here: https://github.com/xmj/porttools/blob/master/scripts/cmd_submit.in
Bugzilla offers an XMLRPC and JSONRPC api - integrating this with e.g. curl or something like that may help here. One just needs to provide the login credentials on submission.
send-pr(1) has been restored in some way. It is however inappropriate in several ways and needs to be replaced with an improved solution. @xmj: what do we do with port-tools (original request)? Deactivate/mark `port submit` as broken in the meantime?
A commit references this bug: Author: xmj Date: Mon Oct 27 12:23:55 UTC 2014 New revision: 371562 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/371562 Log: ports-mgmt/porttools: upgrade to 1.03 - Upgrade to 1.03 Changelog: - Mark port submit as broken - Mark port followup as broken PR: 194323 Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D992 Approved by: swills (mentor) Changes: head/ports-mgmt/porttools/Makefile head/ports-mgmt/porttools/distinfo
Hello, all. I wrote a bugzilla send-pr tool called 'mothra' (https://github.com/pct/mothra) and it has following commands like: mothra attach <bug_id>, <file_path> # add attachment to <bug_id> mothra browse <bug_id> # open <bug_id> at your browser mothra create <summary> # set PR summary only, no attachments mothra get <bug_id> # get info of <bug_id> mothra help [COMMAND] # Describe available commands or one specific command mothra search <keyword>, <days_ago=180> # search keyword from bugzilla summary for last 180 days or you want mothra submit <summary>, <file_path> # send-pr to bugs.freebsd.org I had send more then 3 PRs using mothra just like: `mothra submit '[MAINTAINER] graphics/p5-Image-ExifTool-devel update to 9.81' p5-Image-ExifTool-devel.patch` And it creates bugzilla post like https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196684 Could you give it a try and give me some feedback? Thanks.
Did you already submit a separate port for mothra?
No, mothra is only a ruby gem now, did you mean it should be a port at ports-mgmt? Thanks.
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Hi, I'd let mothra at https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/rubygem-mothra/ for a while, could it use or need other language implement? I could use Elixir or Python. Thanks.
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(In reply to linpct from comment #14) Daniel, do you still maintain mothra gem? I'm looking into command-line interface for bugs.freebsd.org. py-bugz in general works, it's OK-ish for posting comments and attaching files to existing bugs but for opening new PRs it's not very good. I have several ideas for more specialized CLI script that I'd like to try but if there is an actively maintained tool, we can coordinate efforts. I'd prefer the tool to be written in Python though: (a) I'm more familiar with it than with Ruby (b) pool of developers who can participate in working on the tool is larger.
(In reply to Oleksandr Tymoshenko from comment #16) Hi, Mothra ruby gem(https://github.com/pct/mothra) still works but I'm not maintain it for 3 years. Please start your python project and let me know if I could help. Thanks.
Update on WIP. I release scarab[1] tool that I believe can be used for ports PR submission. Please try and let me know if some essential functionality is missing or too complex. [1] https://github.com/gonzoua/scarab
(In reply to Oleksandr Tymoshenko from comment #18) Bugmeister note: scarab files not found as of 20240207.