# Contrib

There are a number of unofficial Bugzilla add-ons in the `$BUGZILLA_ROOT/contrib/` directory. This section documents them.

## Command-line Search Interface

There are a suite of Unix utilities for searching Bugzilla from the command line. They live in the `contrib/cmdline` directory. There are three files - `query.conf`, `buglist` and `bugs`.

These files pre-date the templatisation work done as part of the 2.16 release, and have not been updated.

`query.conf` contains the mapping from options to field names and comparison types. Quoted option names are grepped for, so it should be easy to edit this file. Comments (#) have no effect; you must make sure these lines do not contain any quoted option.

`buglist` is a shell script that submits a Bugzilla query and writes the resulting HTML page to stdout. It supports both short options, (such as -Afoo or -Rbar) and long options (such as --assignedto=foo or --reporter=bar). If the first character of an option is not -, it is treated as if it were prefixed with --default=.

The column list is taken from the COLUMNLIST environment variable. This is equivalent to the Change Columns option that is available when you list bugs in buglist.cgi. If you have already used Bugzilla, grep for COLUMNLIST in your cookies file to see your current COLUMNLIST setting.

`bugs` is a simple shell script which calls `buglist` and extracts the bug numbers from the output. Adding the prefix http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id= turns the bug list into a working link if any bugs are found. Counting bugs is easy. Pipe the results through `sed -e 's/,/ /g' | wc | awk '{printf $2 "\n"}'`

Akkana Peck says she has good results piping `buglist` output through `w3m -T text/html -dump`

## Command-line 'Send Unsent Bug-mail' tool

Within the `contrib` directory exists a utility with the descriptive (if compact) name of `sendunsentbugmail.pl`. The purpose of this script is, simply, to send out any bug-related mail that should have been sent by now, but for one reason or another has not.

To accomplish this task, `sendunsentbugmail.pl` uses the same mechanism as the `sanitycheck.cgi` script; it scans through the entire database looking for bugs with changes that were made more than 30 minutes ago, but where there is no record of anyone related to that bug having been sent mail. Having compiled a list, it then uses the standard rules to determine who gets mail, and sends it out.

As the script runs, it indicates the bug for which it is currently sending mail; when it has finished, it gives a numerical count of how many mails were sent and how many people were excluded. (Individual user names are not recorded or displayed.) If the script produces no output, that means no unsent mail was detected.

Usage: move the sendunsentbugmail.pl script up into the main directory, ensure it has execute permission, and run it from the command line (or from a cron job) with no parameters.