On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 08:21 -0700, Peace Jerome wrote:
> Some Mantis questions and curiosities.
> 
> As I was adding reports to mantis and then viewing all
> the reports I noticed a considerable gap in the recent
> numbering. I could not find many reports numbered
> between 2050-2080.  Anybody know what happened to the
> numbers?

As John and Bert mentioned the pool of ID numbers is shared among all
projects in the database, of which there a many more than just the two
used by the Squeak community.

> In trying to view the missing reports I took a closer
> look at the filters field.  What is considered a
> sticky issue and what is considered not?

That I don't know.  By the way this is a good time to remind everyone
that the Mantis does include some documentation.  Including the rather
simple document I wrote up specifically related to reporting Squeak
issues there is a link to the Mantis documentation itself.  A quick
glance at this did not provide any information to me on 'stickiness' but
the documentation is updated regularly so a look back at it in the
future may shed some light on this.  All of the documentation can be
found by clicking the 'Doc's menu item at the top of any Mantis page.

> Also is there some way of setting personal filter
> preference defaults? If so does it have to be done
> separately for each project? 

My experience has been that whenever you make a setting it 'sticks' and
when you go back to the search page the settings you made are still
there.  This is probably supported by cookies (and may require that you
be logged in, I'm not sure).  Also I believe it does allow you to have
different settings per project.

For example I don't think I've been to the Mantis server since Thursday
or Friday but on the Squeak project search page it already has a
Category setting of 'Network' for me which is what I last used.

> I also looked at the documentation.  (Which looked
> like it had been updated 10/8 but was still only
> mentioning 2 squeak categories.  So I wasn't sure it
> was that up to date and it didn't speak to my needs at
> the moment.  Why not mirror the documentation on a
> swiki page ( with hyperlinks from each to the other)?
> This would allow users to add to the documentation
> unofficially while still allowing the official version
> to remain authoritative.

I think you are confusing Projects and Categories here.  There are still
2 Squeak projects: Squeak and Squeak Packages.  And the discussion in
the document related to these is still accurate.  There are many many
more categories within each project and the list grows regularly.  Based
on the discussion in the document above I hope the meanings of each
category is relatively self explanatory.  If that's not the case please
let me know.

The Mantis documentation only allows you to upload files.  I cannot put
arbitrary links on that page.  If you want something changed in the
document just tell me.

Ken

> 
> Yours in curiosity and service -- Jerome Peace
> 
> 
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