RFE: Read and write text files with bug numbers

Thanks for the suggestion.

Does -rw (read wiki) and -ww (write wiki) sound good?

Sure, along with -r/wp (read/plain text) and -r/wh (read/write html)

What specifically do you think would the HTML options read or write? What would a format look like?

It would output <a href="URL">Bug # and title</a><br /> in to out.html.

I could then just click on the output file and it would open in firefox. I then Ctrl-Click on all the links and off I go triaging at speed :)

Ok.

I thought I'd take a stab at this one. The easiest part to implement seemed to be changing the output format, so that's all that this patch includes. It's currently in this form:

bughelper [--version]
     bughelper [-A] [--format=<plain|html|wiki>] [-p <source package>]
     bughelper [-A] [--format=<plain|html|wiki>] [-l <Launchpad-URL>]

It now outputs in these forms:
<a href="http://launchpad.net/bugs/43050">Bug 43050 </a> - Vino crasher bugs<br />
{{{[http://launchpad.net/bugs/43050 bug #43050] - Vino crasher bugs}}}
http://launchpad.net/bugs/43050 - Vino crasher bugs

I'm sure the patch needs more work done, but I'm putting it out here in case anyone's looking for a starting point on this one.

Good work on that Andrew. What do you think about splitting out the 'printing' to another 'module'? I'd love to keep the bughelper script as easy to understand as possible.

Also... what do you think about writing the file directly out to the disk?
So that'd be
   bughelper -A --format=wiki -p evolution
rather than:
   bughelper -A --format=wiki -p evolution > evolution.wiki
for our users. Any other opinions?

Both of those sound reasonable. If anyone wants to make that happen, I'm sure they could do it faster than me. I have little experience with Python :)

Do you need help with that? Anybody else wants to pick it up?

Help would be nice. I'm going to be a bit busy, but I'll post updated patches if I get any work done. If anybody would like to jump in and finish the patch, I wouldn't be bothered.

I've moved the printBug function into commandLine.py, but I think a new file for output might be the best approach to adding automatic file output.

I'm attaching my most recent patch.

Thanks Andrew for your work, I committed a modified version to ~bugsquad/bughelper/bughelper.main

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revno: 58
committer: Daniel Holbach <email address hidden>
branch nick: bughelper.main
timestamp: Wed 2007-01-31 17:49:17 +0100
message:
  committed a modified patch of Andrew Ash <email address hidden> to fix #79142
  modifications I did:
   - split out formatting code into bugHelper/output.py
   - remove a lot of formatting code from bughelper - YAY
   - added bugnumber attribute to Bug object
   - splitted up formatting code
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Somebody might want to change the HTML/Wiki/plain formatting a bit - feel free to.