can i plug http://www.redmine.org/ ?
its a very nice bit of software and we may be able to steal the bug-tracking bit of it. cheers, matt On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Christoph Böhme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a follow up to my last message: > I did a bit of research on the osm software stack yesterday evening and > I think implementing a genuine map bugtracker isn't more work than > adapting bugzilla. This is basically because the most important part of > the map bugtracker is the user interface. And that has to be rewritten > in both cases. The rest consists only of some database tables and a > RESTful controller to add, edit, and query bugs in the database and > return them in different formats (e.g. XML, JSON, RSS). > > I recently started to work with Pylons which is claims to be very > similar to Rails. From this experience I expect the job of writing a > bugtracker-controller to be not very difficult. I will try to install > the rails-port on my computer at the weekend and have a look at it. > For the user interface side it might be possible to user the current > osb code as a starting point. > > It would be nice if we could decide on one solution instead of > implementing two competing ones. So, it would be good to have a look at > the advantages and disadvantages of a bugzilla and a rails-port > solution and decide then which one fits best. Perhaps which should also > ask the software developers how they feel about moving from trac to > bugzilla. This seemed to be one of your main points for using bugzilla. > > Christoph > > > Christoph Böhme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> Hi! >> >> Steffen Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 15:16 +0000 schrieb Christoph Böhme: >> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bugtracker_proposal >> > >> > Hey great work! >> >> Thanks! >> >> > I already modified the software-bug classifications, statuses of >> > Bugzilla, due to the needs of a MapBugTracker. >> > >> > Do we have some perl programmers around here? >> >> I am more into python ... >> >> > I could need some help to adapt the slippy map scripts to Bugzilla. >> > It's not as hard as it might sound. >> > Bugzilla owns a XML-RPC backend which we can use... >> >> This sounds quite handy and like a clean interface. However, Richard's >> comment about the complexity of writing a new bugtracker compared to >> adapting one for mapping still makes me think. At the moment it looks >> like as if we have to replace the current user interface of bugzilla >> with a completely new one that is suitable for mapping. The original >> user interface won't be of much use for a map bugtracker (I personally >> would always want to see where the bugs are). I am wondering how much >> code there is in a bugtracker which is independent from the user >> interface. Basically it boils down to the question if we write a new >> interface how many parts of bugzilla will we actually use? And will >> these parts fit well into a map bugtracker? >> >> Bugzilla has an incredible amount of features but to me they seem to >> be made very much for software developer teams where only a relatively >> small number of people is actually fixing bugs. This is quite >> different to the osm community where several thousand people can >> possibly solve bugs. I thinks this makes many of bugzillas features >> unneccessary or even counterproductive if they were used in the osm >> community. >> >> I really do not want to put you off from adapting bugzilla to >> openstreetmap but at the moment I cannot see what advantages we would >> get from using bugzilla compared to creating something specific for >> osm. >> >> Christoph >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
