Thanks for the replies / comments about using Semediawiki everyone
Not sure I'm going to go the semediawiki route (only using MW 1.5.6... don't
have time to install a bunch of extensions)
Was looking at Tom's original post again -- based on what he describes,
couldn't this be done really easily with categories?
If each bug ticket is a wiki article, with an assigned status
couldn't the bugs just be created like normal wiki articles and put into a
specific status category? And have all the status catgeories as
subcategories of a Bugs category? That way to see what bugs are in a
particular status, one could just view the category page for that?
To get fancy, to create the new Bugs -- Inputbox extension could be used to
create page with PRELOAD switch which I just discovered ..... using a
template to include the bug in the Status:Open category
Then changing a bug's status and moving them around would be as easy as
changing the category....
Just thinking on the fly here -- if you read down this far - -what do you
think? Tom?
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Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Purl" <tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ(a)public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am
new to MediaWiki. Any
help
you can give me with my question would be greatly
appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The main reason that I use
the
MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a
rudimentary issue
tracker
within it. Here's basically how it works:
* Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
* Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
like
this:
* StatusOpen
* StatusClosed
* StatusPendingDefect
* The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
contains
macros that allow me to display a
"dashboard" of every single ticket based
on
its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues
=============
Open Issues
-----------
1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A
2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B
Pending Defect
--------------
1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue
Closed Issues
-------------
1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
* This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new wiki page prefaced by
"IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically
appear
under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it off
from
the
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for
MediaWiki
with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to implement all of
this
(which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the
concept of MoinMoin macros,
which
are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there
similar
functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl
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