Bug#712979: debbugs: get_bug_log can incorrectly return an e-mail body with xsi:type="xsd:long"

On Sat, 01 Jan 2022, Nis Martensen wrote:
> On 31.12.2021 Don Armstrong wrote in #1002595:
> > [Really, it's past time for us to support a REST interface and
> > abandon the SOAP interface.]
> Just wondering: Don, how much effort would you estimate is this? Do you
> have plans for working on this? Could this be a suitable project for a
> summer of code contribution?

I'm currently working on it, but my available time is so minimal, that
additional help would be welcome.

My current plan is to reimplement the log and database reading pieces in
python (SQLAlchemy + FastAPI) so that the number of people who can
contribute to the web frontend parts is significantly larger. [I've
started in on this, but it's slow going.]