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