On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:19:24 +1000, Jonathan Lange <jml@mumak.net> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Graham Binns <graham@canonical.com> Date: Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:55 AM Subject: Bugzilla and Trac Launchpad plugins: Request for beta testers To: Warthogs list <warthogs@lists.canonical.com>

Howdy, warthogs,

I'm writing to you to ask for help with testing some cool new features that we're going to be adding to Launchpad shortly.

We've developed (well, we've contracted people to develop) plugins for Bugzilla and Trac that allow bidirectional communication between Launchpad and the remote bug trackers that have them installed.

As I said, we need some help testing these plugins. Specifically, we need to have them installed on a number of remote bug trackers so that we can use the plugins to communicate with those trackers.

If you know of any bug trackers whose administrators might be interested in helping us out (or, even better, if you're one of those administrators yourself), please point them to the following pages on the help wiki, which will explain how to download and install the Launchpad plugins:

For Bugzilla: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/BugzillaPlugin For Trac: http://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/TracPlugin

Installing one of the plugins means that:

* Launchpad will be able to forward bugs to upstream bug trackers that have the plugin installed. Users of those bug trackers won't have to check Launchpad for bugs registered against their project; they'll be forwarded straight to the upstream tracker.

* If a bug watch is created against an upstream bug, Launchpad will tell the upstream bug tracker which Launchpad bug is watching it. This means that not only is there a link in Launchpad to the upstream bug, but there's also a link in the upstream bug tracker to the Launchpad bug.

* Launchpad will be able to import comments from upstream bugs which are being watched in Launchpad. If you register a bug watch against an upstream bug you'll be able to read the conversation about that bug on Launchpad, including the comments that are made on the upstream bug tracker.

* Launchpad will be able to push comments to upstream bugs which are linked to a Launchpad bug, so if you add a comment on Launchpad in reply to a comment which was imported from an upstream bug tracker, the comment will automatically be added to the conversation on the upstream bug tracker, too. This means that users of both Launchpad and the upstream tracker can view the whole conversation about the bug without leaving their preferred environments.

If you've got any further questions, please feel free to ask me.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Graham

Hello all,

Launchpad has recently released a Trac plugin that lets Launchpad synchronize bugs and bug comments from Launchpad to Trac and vice versa.

Can we please install this on our Trac?

I got stuck when I got to the part of the installation which called for the addition of the LAUNCHPAD_RPC permission to the launchpad user. The LAUNCHPAD_RPC permission isn't recognized and trac-admin refuses to add it. Command failed: LAUNCHPAD_RPC is not a valid action. Any suggestions? Also, it seems like it might be a good idea to recommend on the installation instructions page that the ability to register a new user named "launchpad" be disabled before enabling this plugin. Otherwise anyone can come along and gain launchpad-level access to a tracker. Jean-Paul