A draft implementation of a bug report front end for libreoffice was assembled behind a reverse proxy pretending that http://freedesktop.dachary.org/ is http://bugs.freedesktop.org/. For the Writer and BASIC components a subcomponent can be selected. The URLs of the existing bug reportings is appended to the page. When the form is submit the user is redirected to bugs.freedesktop.org with the proper fields set.
A wiki page linked from the FAQ explains how to report a bug in the bug report web site.
Another wiki page linked from the FAQ helps understand how to fill the various fields.
The subcomponent is not supported by bugzilla. It is a string that has to be included in the summary of the bug report.
A fake bug report was filled to observe the HTTP request sent to the server:
product LibreOffice token mxTEnUaXmd component Chart version LibO 3.4.3 RC2 bug_severity normal rep_platform Other op_sys All priority medium bug_status NEW assigned_to libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org qa_contact cc alias bug_file_loc http:// short_desc TEST IGNORE comment TEST IGNORE data description contenttypemethod autodetect contenttypeselection text/plain contenttypeentry keywords dependson blocked form_name enter_bug
Rainer Bielefeld created wiki pages explaining the rationale in the context of libreoffice Q&A. It links to pages explaining what the Bug Submission Assistant is and what needs to be done.
It is not possible to use theJS implementation of the Bugzilla REST API on version 3.0.3 because it’s not implemented before 3.2 ( the latest stable 3.4.x, 3.6.x or 4.0.x point release of Bugzilla (many features will not work on 3.2); )
A reverse proxy is configured to resolve the same origin policy preventing a javascript file loaded from http://dachary.org/ to load a CSV list of bugs thru an ajax call from http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName freedesktop.dachary.org
ProxyPass /libreoffice/ http://dachary.dachary.vm.gnt/loic/libreoffice/ retry=1
ProxyPass / https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi retry=1
ProxyPreserveHost On
SSLProxyEngine On
SSLEngine on
# A self-signed (snakeoil) certificate can be created by installing
# the ssl-cert package. See
# /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz for more info.
# If both key and certificate are stored in the same file, only the
# SSLCertificateFile directive is needed.
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
ServerAdmin loic@dachary.org
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/freedesktop.conf.tld-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/freedesktop.conf.tld-access.log common
</VirtualHost>