[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker

[Chris Earle (CBL)]

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?

--
Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Purl" <tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ at 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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