On Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Ken Causey wrote:
So does anyone have an argument with rearranging the (Mantis) projects in this way now, today?
In other words create projects:
Squeak A-C Squeak D-F Squeak G-I Squeak J-L Squeak M-O Squeak P-R Squeak S Squeak T-V Squeak W-Z
to replace the current Squeak and Squeak Packages projects?
If someone, like say Michael, could do that I would be happy to take care of moving around categories and issues.
I notice the new projects haven't been created yet. I was wondering, though, is it reasonably easy to move issues from one project to another? (No harder than changing categories?)
Thinking again about this I'm a little concerned that Mantis Projects are a more serious separation than a simple category label. I believe you can only look at one project at a time in Mantis, so if you divided these up into 9 projects as you suggest, you couldn't ever have a "My View" which looked at all Squeak bugs with some criteria (say, all Squeak bugs logged in the last 3 days). You could only look at the Squeak J-L package bugs, for example.
I wonder if there's any third way to handle this? Any Mantis gurus out there? If you could use a list box instead of a pulldown menu, then having a list of 50 or 100 packages to choose from (with just one Squeak project) might be manageable. Or maybe there's another way. It might be worth asking on the Mantis forums http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1436 . Heck, I will cross-post this message to squeak-dev in case anyone has a brilliant insight.
But if there's no alternative, your splitting up sounds okay. I just wonder if maybe we should hold off on doing that for a little while...
- Doug
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:43:36 -0500, Doug Way dway@mailcan.com wrote:
Thinking again about this I'm a little concerned that Mantis Projects are a more serious separation than a simple category label.
I'm a little concerned that Mantis sucks a bit... Shoot, you got my 'bugtracker in Seaside' spot itching again....
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 23:43 -0500, Doug Way wrote:
On Thursday, March 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Ken Causey wrote:
So does anyone have an argument with rearranging the (Mantis) projects in this way now, today?
In other words create projects:
Squeak A-C Squeak D-F Squeak G-I Squeak J-L Squeak M-O Squeak P-R Squeak S Squeak T-V Squeak W-Z
to replace the current Squeak and Squeak Packages projects?
If someone, like say Michael, could do that I would be happy to take care of moving around categories and issues.
I notice the new projects haven't been created yet. I was wondering, though, is it reasonably easy to move issues from one project to another? (No harder than changing categories?)
It's pretty easy at least for a Manager. It's simple enough to setup a filter that shows all reports for a given category (or even multiple categories) then there is a button to select all displayed reports and then another button to move all selected reports from one project to another. I'd prefer to do as much of this as soon as possible though as I'm a little concerned about doing this for a larger set of reports later. In other words I'm inclined to over prepare a little bit now and plan for more projects than we really need so that we only need to move a few hundred reports around now rather than thousands later. However I may simply be violating YAGNI (as Ohshima reminds me in a separate thread). But then again I'm also writing documentation that hinges on this and would prefer to not have to rewrite it any more than necessary.
Thinking again about this I'm a little concerned that Mantis Projects are a more serious separation than a simple category label. I believe you can only look at one project at a time in Mantis, so if you divided these up into 9 projects as you suggest, you couldn't ever have a "My View" which looked at all Squeak bugs with some criteria (say, all Squeak bugs logged in the last 3 days). You could only look at the Squeak J-L package bugs, for example.
I wonder if there's any third way to handle this? Any Mantis gurus out there? If you could use a list box instead of a pulldown menu, then having a list of 50 or 100 packages to choose from (with just one Squeak project) might be manageable. Or maybe there's another way. It might be worth asking on the Mantis forums http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1436 . Heck, I will cross-post this message to squeak-dev in case anyone has a brilliant insight.
But if there's no alternative, your splitting up sounds okay. I just wonder if maybe we should hold off on doing that for a little while...
- Doug
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