[etoys-dev] Trackerfixes in webDav

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 28.09.2009, at 22:55, Karl Ramberg wrote:

> On 2009-09-28 22:22, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> On 28.09.2009, at 17:52, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> could the issues in the Tracker be made available to a web dav  
>>> directory so a lazy bum like me could just
>>> load the fixes without leaving Etoys.
>>>
>>> Struckture like
>>>
>>> jira
>>>   SQ-417
>>>               mygreatfix.001.cs.gz
>>>               mygreatfix.002.cs.gz
>>>
>>>   SQ-418
>>>               nowFixed.002.cs.gz
>>>
>>>   and so on
>>>
>>> This would be so nice :-)
>>
>> How about if you just needed to write a single line in a workspace  
>> to load the fix? E.g.
>>
>>    Installer squeakland fixBug: 71
>>
>> See http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-247
>>
>> - Bert -
>
> My issue with it (and Installer in general) is that I have to know  
> the name beforehand and not be able to browse to it from within the  
> image.
> It's a little to much black box. I guess I could live with it...
>
> Karl

Good point about browsing.

My usual solution to such a problem is having a web crawler run  
periodically over all the pages and scrape all interesting things into  
an easily digested document ... you could write that in Squeak for  
Jira too, I guess. That way no server-side changes are needed.

- Bert -