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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:11:17 Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 08:01:24AM +0100, Graham Binns wrote:
> > On 12 April 2010 06:04, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Deryck,
> > > 
> > > As discussed before I'm tackling the JFDI approach and I'm going to get
> > > the scanner to update the bug-task status [1].
> > > 
> > > I'd like the bug-task to be set to in-progress when it is linked to the
> > > branch, and fix-committed if it is linked to a branch that was marked
> > > as merged through a merge proposal.
> > > 
> > > Since the scanner is a script, what do you think the best approach is
> > > so that the appropriate subscribers get notified? Â I had a brief look
> > > at the bug code but it was not clear to me exactly how to proceed.
> > 
> > The simplest way I can think of, though not a particularly elegant one,
> > 
> > is to do something like this:
> >     from lp.bugs.adapters.bugchange import BugTaskStatusChange
> >     change = BugTaskStatusChange(
> >     
> >         bug_task=bug_task, when=UTC_NOW, person=current_person,
> >         what_changed='status', old_value=old_bugtask_status.title,
> >         new_value=new_bugtask_status.title)
> >     
> >     bug_task.bug.addChange(change)
> > 
> > However, I'd be inclined to say "use whatever the API uses," but I don't
> > actually know what that is (just from a bit of looking around at pre-8am
> > I can't find it, anyway).
> 
> The easiest way is probably to use IBug.setStatus(). It will do the
> right thing (including notifying people about changes), even if you pass
> in an IProductSeries.

Ah ha, but I don't have a person.

Should I use a celebrity?

Tim