Hi folks,
I implemented a new feature to wm-bot which is still being tested. It allows to parse and report RSS feeds into channel with custom format. There is going to be special RSS parser optimized for wikimedia bugzilla so that you should be able to insert any special "RSS items" such as a user, ticket status, ticket dependencies etc. as variables in a message template.
That means anyone should be able to create a custom irc feed for bugzilla and use it in any wikimedia related irc channel you want (for example, right now we have a bugzilla feed in #wikimedia-labs that reports only labs related bugs). You can generate RSS feed in bugzilla, just by creating a new search, then you can click link "Feed" which is on bottom of each search results page.
(Example step by step to create rss bugzilla feed for a channel #wikimedia-labs)
1. Get a bot to channel (instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wm-bot) 2. Enable RSS feed by typing
@rss-on
3. Create a custom search in bugzilla for all bugs which were changed in last 4 hours and convert it to RSS feed:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=-4h&chfieldto=Now...
4. Insert this rss feed to bot by typing
@rss+ bugzilla https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldfrom=-4h&chfieldto=Now...
5. Change the default template for rss item to something better:
@configure style-rss=[$name] ticket name: $title (ticket created by $author) url: $link
please note that there is a variable $description which contains some html code generated by bugzilla, which is useless in irc and needs to be removed by overriding the default template
the special bugzilla items ($bugzilla_id, $bugzilla_createddate, $bugzilla_changeddate, $bugzilla_lastuser, $bugzilla_status) are not available yet, but should be soon, also there is still lot of stuff to improve, but I hope one day we will be able to put bugzilla irc bots to every dev channel we need it in and let it report only bugs we are interested in.
--Petr