Ryan Lee wrote:
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>> Johan Sundström wrote:
>>> On 1/24/07, Ryan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>> I would, but I honestly don't find the link to where to create new
>>>>> tickets in the issue tracker. Amusingly, the closest I get is
>>>>> filtering available tickets by newness. (Had I known how to, I'd file
>>>>> another issue on a shortage of ease of filing new tickets too, while
>>>>> at it. ;-)
>>>> It's a side experiment we run on how to most effectively frustrate
>>>> people.  Well, maybe not; but it looks like we're doing a good job of it
>>>> anyways.
>>>>
>>>> 'Create new issue' in the top left menu bar of each page.  You might
>>>> need to register for an account before it shows itself; I don't recall
>>>> the actual sequence.
>>> URLs would be helpful; I'll show mine that don't work nor present
>>> that, and you can share yours. :-)
>>>
>>> http://simile.mit.edu/issues/browse/PIGGYBANK is listed as Piggy
>>> Bank's issue tracker, and it has neither login nor create new issue
>>> links, for all I can see. I'm fairly confident I have an account but
>>> don't know how to invoke its power to gain the views that might risk
>>> getting tickets created. ;-)
>> Hmmm, you're right, there is no 'login' in that page.
> 
> Well, there is, but it's white text on a white background (next to the 
> little printer and question mark bubble icons).

ah-ha!

>> Also, I think we should add a "add issues" link even to those who are
>> not logged in, at least that explains them what to do.
> 
> This doesn't leave me with much hope that that's as simple an operation 
> as it sounds:
> 
>   http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/latest/extending.html
> 
> unless we can get the JIRA source.

Well, JIRA is mostly JSPs and we have those, so shouldn't be that hard.

> A simple grep through the original JIRA files for the phrases 'rowse 
> project' and 'reate new' only shows them embedded in .class files.

which "original" files are you talking about?

> We may want to just write our own starter page that links to relevant 
> spots in JIRA and call that the issue tracker homepage.

that's not a bad idea either.

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi
Digital Libraries Research Group                 Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave               skype: stefanomazzocchi
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307, USA         email: stefanom at mit . edu
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