Bug tracking

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Thu Nov 15 13:58:34 UTC 2001


On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 10:44:25AM +0100, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> Kevin Fisher <kgf at golden.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 08:55:28PM +0100, goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> > > Don't forget JitterBug. It is very simple, only demands Apache as a
> > > prereq, is easily
> > > hackable (I have added a bunch nice features to it) uses email and web
> > > in a neat way.
> > 
> > Sounds neat!  Is this Squeak-based?  I've never heard of JitterBug...
> 
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/jitterbug/

Great!  Thanks for that link.  Actually, there's a really interesting
link off that page that has a huge listing of defect trackers.


[snip]
> 
> > Well, testing is near and dear to my heart (it's my "real world" job)
> > so I've always wondered how I could bring Squeak into the game.  A nice
> > Squeak-based defect tracker would be great...the portability would come
> > in handy as I've always run into problems when the upper crust decides we 
> > need to switch to a new platform every once in a while. :)  Plus, integrating
> > it with a SWiki just seems like the "natural" thing to do..
> 
> Well, I actually was not proposing to build a bugreporting system in
> Squeak - quite the opposite. :-) I just think that setting up Jitterbug
> (which is robust, works and is hackable) which would take a few hours of
> my time, is a very reasonable first "go" at a simple system. And then,
> if we decide to build the super-duper-Squeak-system, we can easily
> migrate the existing reports into that since it's just files.


Interestingly, there's a link of the master problem tracker list page
that links to a Zope/ZWiki based tracker:

http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/TrackerWiki/FrontPage

A quick glance at it tells me it's close to what I was thinking of...pity
it's done in Zope and not Squeak though. :)  I played with the ZWiki stuff
at one time and I didn't really like it.  SWiki is much nicer..

> 
> <CSOTD>
> "Ok, a little tip then. Perhaps you have seen this in the code? It is a
> Squeakish way of typing 'PENDING'. #flag: doesn't do anything but this
> enables us to search for our PENDINGS. Try
> searching for senders of workAround (by selecting that word and typing
> Alt-n (Win32) and you will see what I mean). Andreas is obviously fond
> of this technique! :-)"
> 
> self flag: #workAround
> </CSOTD>
> 
> regards, Göran
> 
> 




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