Brian --

This is most excellent.  Thanks for all the work to set it up! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-boun...@open-mpi.org 
> [mailto:devel-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of Brian Barrett
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:49 PM
> To: Open MPI Developers
> Subject: [OMPI devel] New bug tracker
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> We've finally got a bug tracker running again.  Since RT had some  
> problems that we couldn't figure out how to work around (namely,  
> sending tons and tons of e-mail when ticket status changed) and it's  
> interface made it difficult to generate custom queries, we 
> decided to  
> look for other options.  After some searching, it seemed that a  
> project called Trac would give us what we were looking for, and has  
> some nice integration with Subversion.
> 
> The new URL for our bug tracker is:
> 
>    https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi
> 
> By default, you will see the anonymous view, which basically allows  
> you to do nothing more than see the open bugs in the system.  If you  
> click on the "login" button and use your SVN username / 
> password, you  
> will be able to file bugs and see more information about the current  
> state of the SVN repository.  As we discussed, only developers with  
> SVN access can create or modify bugs.  In the future, this may  
> change, of course.
> 
> Using the system is pretty self explanatory.  One thing I should  
> point out is that a "milestone" is an upcoming release for which the  
> bug must be fixed / implemented / etc.  A "version" on the other  
> hand, is where the bug was discovered.
> 
> By default, the only people who are some how participating in 
> the bug  
> (either by creating it, being assigned the bug, or have added  
> themselves to the cc list) will receive e-mail notification on  
> change.  If you want to receive an e-mail whenever any bug in the  
> system changes, you can re-subscribe to the bugs@open-mpi 
> mailing list.
> 
> There are some nice reports that you can view to get information on  
> current bugs.  These include:
> 
>    - tickets without owners
>    - "my" open tickets
>    - tickets for each milestone
> 
> It's quite easy to add new reports, so if you have ideas on what you  
> would like to see, please let me know.  Jeff has already suggested a  
> milestone view that only shows bug reports (as opposed to bug 
> reports  
> + feature requests).  I'll probably add that in the next day or two.
> 
> Right now, we're still playing around with the integration between  
> Trac and Subversion.  But it should be possible to change the status  
> of a ticket from a SVN commit message.  It's also possible to  
> associate a commit with a particular bug number by adding something  
> like "ticket:1" (without the quotes) to your commit message to  
> associate the commit with ticket # 1.  The ticket will automatically  
> be updated to reflect the connection.
> 
> I'll add bugs as they come in on the users and devel mailing lists.   
> I'll also be hounding people to pick up unassigned bugs.  For now,  
> plan on receiving e-mails about unassigned bugs on Mondays and then  
> hearing about them on the weekly telecon ;).  Please let me know if  
> you have any questions about the bug tracker.
> 
> Brian
> 
> -- 
>    Brian Barrett
>    Open MPI developer
>    http://www.open-mpi.org/
> 
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