4 Authors: Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>
5 Eric Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
7 bugzilla-submit is a simple Python program that creates bugs in a Bugzilla
8 instance. It takes as input text resembling message headers (RFC-822
9 formatted) via standard input, or optionally a number of commandline
10 parameters. It communicates using HTTP, which allows it to work over a
16 Its only requirement is Python 2.3 or higher; you should have the
17 "python" executable in your path.
22 * Please constrain testing to your own installation of Bugzilla, or use
23 * http://landfill.bugzilla.org/ for testing purposes -- opening test
24 * bugs on production instances of Bugzilla is definitely not a good idea
26 Run "bugzilla-submit --help" for a description of the possible options.
28 An example input file, named bugdata.txt, is provided. You can pipe it
29 in as standard input to bugzilla-submit, providing a Bugzilla URI through
32 Note that you must create a ~/.netrc entry to authenticate against the
33 Bugzilla instance. The entry's machine field is a *quoted* Bugzilla URI,
34 the login field is your ID on that host, and the password field is the
35 your password password. An example entry follows:
37 machine "http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/"
44 Documentation for bugzilla-submit is provided in Docbook format; see