Re: Questions about BTS SOAP interface "pending" attribute

On Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:43:45 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...]
> in the present case, those names are something intended to be
> interpreted by programs and not directly by users (at least normally).
> Please correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> As a consequence, the fact that apt-listbugs exposes those names to its
> users (since they are possible values for command line arguments) is a
> flaw of apt-listbugs.
> Maybe apt-listbugs should use less misleading names for the states when
> parsing command line arguments, and then internally map them to the
> historical names used in the SOAP stream.
[...]

I noticed that the BTS web interface *does* use the historical names
for pending-states in the input from its users: in
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/
(and at the end of each bug listing or bug report web page)
the "Include Bugs" and "Exclude Bugs" fields have a "with pending
state" option where the user is supposed to enter the historical names
(pending, forwarded, pending-fixed, ...).

On the other hand, when the BTS web interface displays bugs, it uses
more discursive descriptions. The mapping seems to be:

        pending          becomes    "Outstanding"
        forwarded        becomes    "Forwarded"
        pending-fixed    becomes    "Pending Upload"
        fixed            becomes    "Fixed in NMU"
        absent           becomes    "From other Branch"
        done             becomes    "Resolved"

Maybe I should use the same discursive descriptions for the output of
apt-listbugs, and the historical names for apt-listbugs command line
arguments.
This would be more consistent with the BTS web interface.

Once again, not something that can be changed during a freeze, so I'll
have to wait...

What do you think?
Please let me know.

Thanks for your time!

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