This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other system running for that.....
Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks' like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah .. perl! ... so..
If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you! Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...
-- Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Purl" tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker
This looks perfect Max. Thanks!
Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask> to get a list of open issues.
Come to http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk@public.gmane.org +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
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 BPending Defect -------------- 1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issueClosed 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