Bug Tracking system for the new Savannah (was: Re: [Savannah-dev] Re: phpGroupWare is leaving SourceForge)

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Loic Dachary <address@hidden> writes:

>       An alternative would be to develop or adapt the web interface
> to GNATS. Having a mail based bug report system with an added (but not
> mandatory) web interface would be good (at least to me ;-). However
> this requires a fair amount of work. GNATS is currently migrating from
> sourceware.redhat.com to savannah.gnu.org, that may be an oportunity
> to engage the dialog with them on this subject.

Also, the gnatsweb maintainer has been maintaining our GNATS
installation, at least upgrading it to the latest version.

gnats:
  Milan Zamazal <address@hidden>

gnatsweb:
 address@hidden

I have copied them in this message.


>       Which solution we chose highly depend on how much time/talent
> people have to devote to it. If noone is willing to spend a few
> weeks on it, I guess using an existing phpGroupWare based bug
> tracking system is the solution. We may not have all the
> functionalities we dream of (or are used to, which is not the same
> thing ;-) but it would be maintained and updated on a regular basis.

Adopting GNATS as the problem tracking system has the following
advantages:

  - It is already a GNU package, it is "THE" GNU bug tracking system.

  - Some GNU tools use it already for bug tracking system.

  - It provides all sorts of interfaces:
      Mail.
      Command line.
      Web.
      Emacs.
      Tcl/Tk (this one hasn't been updated to work with the latest
              version).


  - It is actively being maintained.

  - It is mature and tested.



>       The only necessary adaptation will be to arrange for it to
> work in a project oriented way. It basically means that it can be
> used in a "narrow" mode, only showing entries belonging to a group
> (in the phpGroupWare sense).


   - Gnats 4 can already do that using the concept of "databases", we
     would create one database per project.



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