Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2005 17:24 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > http://roundup.sourceforge.net/ > > Kolab tracker: https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/ > > Some nice features can only be seen when using it for a while, > > e.g. it has a real email interface and can be customised a lot. > > Yes, I've glanced over the User guide for 10 min and the Email interface > was the one I was most interested in. I want that the system can be > fully controlled via Email, because I hate having to click around in a > Web interface. > What I'm searching for is a small little issue tracking system which > neither requires the usual myriad of software pieces, is not implemented > in an esoteric language, can be 100% controlled via Email You are on a good path with roundup up to here. Not everything regarding setup can be controlled, by Email, but all the regular activities around bugs can. > and optimally > stores the messages as raw mails on an IMAP server (and just stores > meta information in a companion database). Why? Because usually issue > tracking for us is not a dedicated task. Instead one starts a dicussions > on a mailing list or in a private conversation and at some point one of > the participants wants that the conversions is _ADDITIONALLY_ tracked > in the issue tracking system for further investigation. I usually > want to login in the Web interface only for searching and to allow me > to reference the discussion thread via an URL. But I want the system > to be as closely integrated with the mailing lists as possible. What I usually do is: Have new issues create an email that does to a public mailinglist, then people can add themselfs to "nosy" and get an email whenever these is a changenote via email or web. You could easily make Roundup send each change to an imap server, too. Bernhard ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org
