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
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Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Purl" <tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ(a)public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
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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
>
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>
> 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
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