On Tuesday 12 September 2006 17:53, Tom Purl wrote:
<snip>
Yes, you're right, I could do basically what I want with Categories and
sub-categories. I'm not very familiar with MW yet, but I'm assuming I
could even build a "dashboard" page that would dynamically show every
"ticket" with a status of open and pending and whatever. Also, this is
basically what I did with MoinMoin, although it treats categories more
like tabs than actual categories (which has advantages and disadvantages
in this situation).
Having said that, I've pretty much fallen in love with the Semantic
MediaWiki extension from a theoretical perspective. I love the idea
that I can add attributes and relations to a wiki. It really provides
the "development environment" for a wiki app that I've been looking for
for a couple of years now. Also, I've already found other applications
for this plugin that I believe will be very useful.
Good to hear this (though we never thought of SMW as a "development
environment"). I also agree that one should use categories for things that
are just working well this way. SMW can then produce summray pages which list
all bugs from the various categories. But you could also add e.g. dates to
each bug (maybe "due at" or "filed at"), and SMW could then order the
bugs by
those dates. This is something where categories won't be of much use :-)
Templates would be a nice combination with this. For an example on how this
can be done efficiently, look at the annotated page [1]: there is just a
normal template inclusion, no direct SMW syntax. (The actual template syntax
as usual is hard to read and could be simplified -- we had to use ifeq for if
in MW1.6) The template parameters are semantically annotated, so you can do
dynamic listings like the one on page [2] (the listings of events are all
done dynamically).
Cheers,
Markus
[1]
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/BOEMIE2006 (page of some workshop)
[2]
http://ontoworld.org/index.php/Main_Page#Events (see Events section)
So yes, I'm still pushing ahead with using SMW as the base for my issue
tracker. If that doesn't work out, then I'll try the categories-only
solution.
Thanks again!
Tom Purl
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