Help required for Research

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Nitin Mohan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am a graduate student at Oregon State University pursuing my Masters
> degree in Computer Science. I am interested in conducting research on
> the bug reports in many open source projects. I would like to study how
> the projects manage their bug reports and identifying how Bugzilla and
> similar bug repository systems could be improved to facilitate this
> process. I have a bunch of Perl scripts which parses the XML format of
> bug reports from the Bugzilla repository. In order to do this research,
> I need access to your bug repository. Instead of downloading your bug
> reports through Bugzilla or your web interface, I was hoping you might
> instead send me the bug files (in XML format) in a zip file instead if
> you have access to these. This will reduce the load on your servers, and
> save me a great deal of work. You could use this email address for
> sending the zipped bug files. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Do you have some instructions on how to generate these extracts?

-d