FreeLists / haiku-development / [haiku-development] Re: Modifications to Trac ticket fields

["Salvatore Benedetto" <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Niels,

On 23/01/2008, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> I hope that after some initial roughness (in terms of speed), you are
> liking (or at least not disliking) the Trac source code and changelog
> browser. If you haven't tried, try http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser and
> http://dev.haiku-os.org/log to check it out.

It is a bit slow, but it's quite handy.
Thanks for your time!

>
> First of all, the 'platform' field. It is not a default field in Trac,
> we added it for a reason which I guess is a hope for multi-platform
> support. Currently the division of tickets among them is:
> All: 368
> PowerPC: 2 (requests for implementation of these platforms)
> x64: 2
> x86: 39
> None: 20
>
> The question currently is whether this is a useful field right now or
> not. The bug reporter suggests adding the virtual platforms to this
> list (at least, this is how I interpret the request). The other option
> is just to remove this custom field. What do you think?

+1

>
> The other suggestion is to add a SVN revision field. As long as we're
> using the bug tracker to track bugs in the trunk, we might as well add
> it as it is a relevant piece of information. The question is, should
> this field reflect the latest tested revision, or the revision in
> which the bug was first encountered? I prefer the second option,
> because it gives both developers and testers an easy overview of bugs
> that need to be tested again for eventual fixes. In the ticket
> details, the history of this field is saved, so it can be easily
> tracked at which revision a bug was reported.

+1

Anyway, what about the nick in the mails that comes from the bug tracker
mailing list? If I don't mistake somebody already suggested something about it.

Right now they are all in the form of "Haiku <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>", while
IMHO having "ReporterName ..." would be better.

Thanks,
-- 
Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
www.messinalug.org