Thanks for pulling me in Jason, this is good timing. In terms of Mylar's 'Connectors' we currently have a robust and well tested framework for querying Bugzilla and JIRA. Trac will be ready for experimentation within a week or so, and no, there is no Mantis connector yet. The Bugzilla connector is already being used headless on the server by other projects, and we are a bout to de-couple the generic task/issue management API from Eclipse as well.
It would be great to have Maven be a driver for that and we would be happy to package the API in a way that makes it easy for Maven to consume. To get started, would it suffice if we produced a JAR with a JRE 1.5 and org.eclipse.runtime dependency that provided you API for doing the following: 1) create a repository (e.g. bugzilla) 2) query the repository, get bugs back, check values 3) operate on one or more bugs (e.g. change milestones, submit) Mik -- Mik Kersten, http://kerstens.org/mik Mylar Project Lead, http://eclipse.org/mylar > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05 AM > To: Maven Developers List > Cc: Mik Kersten > Subject: Re: Common API for issue tracking systems > > Hi, > > One person who should definitely be pulled into the discussion is Mik > Kersten. He's the fellow who works on Mylar and has integration for > Bugzilla and JIRA and I think Mantis. He's got some code that would > definitely be of use. > > Mik, are you interested creating a general library for issue > management here? > > Sorry for just pulling you in here but I figure it's just easier to > get you involved as the topic has come up :-) > > Jason. > > On 3 Jul 06, at 5:07 PM 3 Jul 06, Mark Hobson wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I was wondering whether any thought had been given to an abstract > > issue tracking API with implementations for Bugzilla, JIRA, etc.? I > > can see a couple of uses within maven: > > > > * Querying the issues fixed when releasing a new version of a project, > > to be used within the maven-changes-plugin > > > > * Creating a new version of a product in the underlying issue tracking > > system when releasing a new version of a project > > > > I couldn't see this abstraction in the maven-changes-plugin, but > > correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > I've recently written some code to programmatically manipulate > > Bugzilla, and thought this could be expanded into a general-purpose > > abstract API for manipulating issue tracking systems. Rather like > > Wagon is to transports and SCM is to SCMs. > > > > It'd be good to see Bugzilla support within maven and I'd be > > interested in people's thoughts. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Jason van Zyl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
