1381566 - Add alternative query option to resolve_bugs.pl

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Editing https://github.com/mozilla-bteam/bmo/blob/master/scripts/resolve_bugs.pl#L48-L51 should allow resolve_bugs to operate on arbitrary search results of bugs.

Probably the most flexible option is to add a --query option, parse that using URI->new(), and pass the hash to Bugzilla::Search.

Comment 1

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

So to actually explain what I want to do here:

Goal: Emma wants to be able to mass close bugs -- or at least for me to be able to mass close bugs without a lot of effort.

Implementation idea:

scripts/resolve_bugs.pl is an existing script that can mass resolve bugs. Currently, it takes a product and an optional component argument  and mass-updates the resolution field on all bugs in that product/component.

This looks like:

perl scripts/resolve_bugs.pl --product=Firefox --component=Aardvark --resolution=WONTFIX

It seems like what we want here is to generalize the searching part of this.
The lowest-friction thing we could do would be for people to provide a URL to a bug search, and for the script
to be able to use that URL to figure out what to close.

So to do that, we add a --buglist option, that takes a search URL.
We parse that search URL (using URI->new) and extract the query string as a hash,
and pass that hash to the constructor of Bugzilla::Search->new().

There are a lot of different ways this could go:

1. remove the old options and require --buglist?
2. if --buglist is passed, don't require --product and ignore it
3. merge the query from --buglist with the --product (and --component) options that are already passed to Bugzilla::Search

Number 2 is what should be done.

Comment 2

[Bug Butler]

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