Requesting RO access to or data from bugzilla.freedesktop.org for research
I sent an email to the sitewranglers list about 3 weeks ago but never saw a response so I'm filing an issue as well.
I'm a graduate student and my thesis work is on extending a paper on duplicate bug report detection/prediction (HINDBR: Heterogeneous Information Network Based Duplicate Bug Report Prediction). That paper uses bug report data from freedesktop's old bugzilla instance and while I do have exported XML from those reports, I do need more data than the xml files contain in order to do my research. The primary data that the xml files are lacking is data on how the bug reports changed over time.
I am requesting to either get read-only API access to bugzilla.freedesktop.org (assuming that's possible) for long enough to extract the data I need or to get an archived copy of bugzilla.freedesktop.org that I can use to extract the data that I need.
I do intend to publish the data and my code once research is complete. I will also be replacing names, email address and other personal information with UIDs before publishing the data.
If I'm making this request to the wrong place, I would appreciate a pointer to the right place/people to ask about getting access to this bugzilla data.