On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Noah Kantrowitz wrote: > Mr. Meitar Moscovitz wrote: >> >>
>> For what it's worth, from your reaction, I'm starting to think >> "subtickets" or "supertickets" is probably a bad name for what I'm >> doing since it evokes too much similar imagery to the whole >> dependency >> thing. Perhaps "somewhat related tickets" would be better, but it >> doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely. > > I think you mean to be saying "related tickets". In any case, not > having > the bi-directional linking seems silly to me, since you can only trace > what is related in a single direction (not really up or down, since > this > more of a set of buckets than a tree). I think what you want is > actually > a graph (though a mostly flat one consisting of several clusters), but > you are getting hung up on the concept of "blocking" which is > orthogonal > from creating a graph of ticket relations. The semantics of those > relations are an entirely different topic. > > --Noah Yeah, "related tickets" might be better. The term "sub/super"-ticket came from the direction of the relationship, but perhaps that's not really important for my use case and could be dropped from the terminology. With regard to bi-directionality, one could always use the same technique to (litter) one of the "superticket"'s fields with keywords/ TracLinks/whatever to the subtickets, but I haven't (yet) encountered a situation where this is actually that useful and I think that introduces the kinds of problems you mentioned in your previous message. If this kind of bi-directional functionality is desired, I agree that something in the software system itself would need to enforce consistency. I guess, really, I'm purposefully not looking for complicated functionality because I want to keep the software out of it as much as possible. What is that great Einstein quote? "Things should be as simple as possible, and no simpler." Cheers, -- -Meitar Moscovitz Personal: http://maymay.net Professional: http://MeitarMoscovitz.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
