Suggestion on auto ticket filing

[Scott Haneda]

In a past message on MP-users, subject of: Re: "Electric" failed to  
compile, Ryan suggested the use of:

	sudo port -d install electric 2>&1 | tee ~/Desktop/electric.txt

Then asked:
> Then file a new ticket in the issue tracker and attach electric.txt  
> from your desktop.

I have been wondering this for a while, and this is a good intro for  
me to ask...

As a result of any error in MacPorts, a message is written to the  
terminal of what the error was.  What if the last line was:

You may want to try the troubleshooting steps located at: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#buildfails

Though I would like to point to a new wiki page, where it was much  
more orderly, a set of steps to try.  I see a lot of requests that are  
answered with "did you clean and try again", "yeah, I did, that  
worked, thanks".

Maybe that entire dialog could go away, with the pointing of a url at  
the very end of the error message.  Then, within the new wiki page, I  
would add the "If all else fails...".

	sudo port -d install portname 2>&1 | tee | mp-reporter

* Not sure I have that correct.

The idea is, that the output is passed to a small shell script, mp- 
reporter, which would automatically create the report in the ticketing  
system.  We would need one account for which this happened under.

I would like to make the mp-reporter script interactive, so if  
desired, they could login to trac right there, and the ticket would be  
made under their account.  Or they can decline, and it will be made  
under the general mp-reporter account.

I believe this is something within my abilities to create.  I think it  
can be done with curl and some pretty simple bash scripting.  Filing  
the ticket with the output as an attachment, over putting it into the  
ticket itself is up for discussion, and would be the only aspect of  
curl I am not familiar with off the bat.

Comments?
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