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(a)fzi.de +49 721 9654-854 www.xam.de Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:

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" &lt;tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ(a)public.gmane.org&gt; Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki Cc: &lt;mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org&gt; 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(a)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 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

I plan plan on posting something more detailed on this in the future, but I just wanted to say that I finished an implementation of this using SemanticMediaWiki and the inputbox extension today and am very pleased. Not only is it everything that I used to have with MoinMoin, but it is actually much more robust. I'm looking forward to kicking the tires a little more and extending the functionality, and once I do I'll be sure to post my results to the list.

Thanks again to everyone for the help! Tom Purl On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 11:18:23PM +0200, Markus Krötzsch wrote: > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:07, Chris Earle (CBL) wrote: > > 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... > > Since I develop Semantic MediaWiki, I do not want to be a defeatist here, > BUT: personally, I think MediaWiki is as good as a bugtracker as it is as > a discussion forum (so maybe we need "LiquidBugs" ;-), mostly for very > similar reasons. Maybe Eric's inputbox-extension still could be useful > for you to give people a simple pre-filled edit form for creating bugs. > > -- Markus > > > -- > > Chris > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tom Purl" &lt;tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ(a)public.gmane.org&gt; > > Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki > > Cc: &lt;mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org&gt; > > 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(a)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 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 > > -- > Markus Krötzsch > Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe > mak(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 > www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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?