These are just scratchpad notes from MarkLinimon.

There are several programmatic ways to interface with Bugzilla. None is completely satisfactory.

Currently our Bugzilla instance only supports the XMLRPC interface. However, bugzilla.org has deprecated XMLRPC in favor of the REST interface. Contact Bugmeister if you wish to help.

• https://www.freshports.org/devel/pybugz/
• pkg install devel/pybugz
• Simple to use
• Now maintained by bugmeister@
• Major disadvantage: only supports XMLPRC

• https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/freebsd-bugzilla-cli/
• pkg install freebsd-bugzilla-cli
• Recommended by RebeccaCran

• https://www.freshports.org/textproc/py-bugzillatools/
• Supported both XMLRPC and REST
• MarkLinimon at one time had done extensive work with this, including local modifications. TODO: dust it off and figure out the status
• Slight disadvantage: it's dead. Or status = sleeping.