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Usability improvements for command-line options

Bug #81282 reported by Simon Law
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Simon Law

Bug Description

We should do some usability testing on bughelper, bugxml, and bugnumbers to see if we can get better usability out of the command-line tools. I looked at them and it's not very obvious what I need to do to do primitive queries and how to save clue files.

This probably implies we need better help files as well.

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Simon Law (sfllaw)
description: updated
Changed in bughelper:
assignee: nobody → sfllaw
importance: Undecided → High
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Is this covered by bug 79218 and bug 79222 maybe?

Changed in bughelper:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
Simon Law (sfllaw)
Changed in bughelper:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

Not really. This is the bug asking for people to do usability testing and changing the command-line options themselves.

For instance, it covers removing the -l option and making bughelper smarter about URL parsing.

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Vassilis Pandis (pandisv) wrote :

How about a specification targeted for 0.2 that will be about a review of the command line options ? Like finding better names for them, adding --long-options and ensuring consistency ? (

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugHelper/Dev/CommandLineZoo might be a good start for that.

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Fernando Ribeiro (ipsec) wrote :

python optparse don't allow -XX options.
to use this format, you need --XX (-- for long format)

optparse.OptionError: invalid long option string '-la': must start with --, followed by non-dash

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

Agreed Let's do a cleanup and rethink of the options for v0.2. That will also require changes in the documentation.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

It'd be nice to have some input on how to change the commandline interface - I feel the bug report is too vague to get resolved properly. Marking needs info.

Changed in bughelper:
importance: High → Medium
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Rejected.

Changed in bughelper:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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