Christian Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >>http://programm.froscon.de/attachments/41-SuseFeatureManagement_Froscon.pdf#search=%22fate%20feature%20tracking%22 > > Interesting presentation. At least I now know what that ominously FATE, > mentioned in bugzilla comments from time to time, is ;-) > >> And most internal stuff goes through FATE. >> >> Sorry, I don't want another tool/method for adding features, instead >> just use one - and hope this works out for all of us. > > As far as I can see from the presentation, chances for this are good ;-) > > Let me try to summarize the differences compared to bugzilla - I hope > this will help to understand the tool better: (please correct me if I'm > wrong on some points) > - a request can have multiple categories; categories can be (in bugzilla > terms) a "product" or a "component", maybe (?) also other usage is > possible [1] > - it's XML based internally, including XQuery etc. [2] > - it supports rich text (HTML-like) in comments [3] > - it's possible to compare multiple revisions of a request - this > implies that the request text can be changed (instead of just adding > comments as in bugzilla) > - two web interfaces (one with full, one with restricted view) and KDE > client available
Correct. > In general, it looks like FATE mixes the best things of bugzilla and a > wiki - sounds promising. (Is there a demo installation somewhere to > test it?) I don't know :-( >> The question is how to "open" FATE in such a way that all of us can >> use it, it was not designed for such a large group... > > Where do you see a problem? Server load? Permission handling? ...? Permission handling: We do not want our partners to see each others request for our enterprise products - and you shouldn't either see there's. I guess that everything coming in through openSUSE can be public. > Maybe you can provide read-only access as a first step... Yes, would be an option. But it still means I need a way to flag specific features as public. > > Regards, > > Christian Boltz > > [1] Sometimes this could be useful in bugzilla product / component > also ;-) > > [2] There's no problem with this as long I don't have to write XSLT > files for it *g* > However, I'm not sure about the performance when compared with a > database. It's fast enough. > [3] not sure if I really need this ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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