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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Gavin Panella
<gavin.panella@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 13 February 2013 16:32, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I was wondering whether I could convince Launchpad to make its public
> >> bug data available in some kind of downloadable blob.
> >>
> >> All of this information is available via the public API, but would
> >> take a very long time to gather. Making the data available could allow
> >> researchers & interested people with a copy of RStudio to come up with
> >> insights into FOSS development.
> >
> >
> > I should point out that I'm not asking for any data that isn't publicly
> > available already. I'm just asking for someone to run a coouple of
> queries
> > and stick a tarball on a webserver, to spare me writing a script that
> trawls
> > the API for the same information.
>
> So much of Launchpad's visibility and access policy is defined by
> security adapters, in Python, that it would make writing a query to
> grab public bug data a fairly hard thing to do correctly. Right now
> the best solution is probably to go through the API :-/
>
>
Thanks for replying!

Why wouldn't this work?

  SELECT * FROM Bug WHERE information_type = 1

Plus some more queries with joins to get the full info.



> There is also the +text view on bugs at
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/${bugno}/+text that /might/ be quicker, but
> I never said that, and definitely did not eat this delicious
> plump-breasted pigeon.
>

Interesting. I might try that.

Thanks again,
jml