RFE: ability to designate updates as addressing issues in any tracker, not just Bugzilla

[AdamWill]

RFE: ability to designate updates as addressing issues in any tracker, not just Bugzilla

[miabbott]

The IoT team has a tracker at https://pagure.io/fedora-iot/issues

IoT migrated to GitHub - https://github.com/fedora-iot/iot-distro

(Will make a PR to update the landing page of that pagure space to note the new location)

[Conan-Kudo]

The openSUSE Build Service lets you use a specific naming/shortcut convention to reference different trackers. It might be a good idea to reuse that concept here?

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines#Current_set_of_abbreviations

[AdamWill]

yeah, I'm aware of that, I think it actually originates in openQA (I contributed some of the definitions there :>). the implementation can get a bit finicky, though. I'm kinda not sure whether it's worth the work. Would have to figure it out while actually trying to implement that.

[mattiaverga]

Bodhi has some sort of modular approach to interface to bug trackers, most of the code is in bugs.py in the Bugzilla class, so I think it can be extended with other interface classes. However, in time we always take for granted that Bugzilla was everything we needed, so there's other code scattered through other modules that relies on that assumption.

It would be really nice to rewrite everything to be really modular and compatible with different trackers, in fact it will soon be required to do so if Fedora plans to switch from Bugzilla to something else. But it will be a really though task involving deep changes in database schema also.