are there alternate interfaces to the bug tracking system?

hi everyone, (if there's a better place to ask this, my apologies and feel free to redirect me!) does anyone know here if there is any machine-friendly interface to the php bug tracking system? in debian we have a service called "bts-link"[1] which we can use to track "forwarded" bugs in remote systems's (i.e. a bug reported in debian which has been linked with another bug such as one on bugs.php.net). for debian package maintainers this is a major boon since we can keep better track of bugs that have been fixed or otherwise addressed "upstream". so what i'm wondering is: is there an easily parseable or structured interface (xmlrpc, soap, read-only JSON export, whatever) to the php.net bts that could be used to get a bug's information? or would such a bts-link service need to resort to scraping the page for a particular bug's status? thanks! sean [1] http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/ ps - I'm cc'ing Sandro Tosi, who i believe could answer any questions you might have about the bts-link service in case you would only provide such access under certain conditions (he is not subscribed to this list). --