Re: Maintainer?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:01:47PM -0700, Paul Traina wrote:
> Gnats is being actively maintained, and v4.0 is ready to be released, modulo
> the fact that nobody has time to finish the documentation (Bob's done all
> the manual pages, but the info files need to be updated).
>
> Hint hint: If you wanted to finish this off, you'd make a bunch of people
> very happy.

If the manual pages are done, then I might be able to do some work on the 
Info files.

> Are your changes based upon the current 4.0 branch?  The structure of the
> database is already well defined through the field-config file...?

My changes are based on a CVS checkout from a week ago.  The reason I 
want to expose this information through the daemon is that I want to be 
able to just point my web front end at the daemon and say "Learn!" and 
have it configure itself appropriately.  This way it can run from a 
completely different machine if desired.  It also means that internally 
gnats can move away from the flat file system and move to databases and 
still provide a consistant front end for getting information about the 
structure of the ticket system.

The second step of being able to modify the structure of the database is 
simply an extension to the first idea:  Gnats can be very easy to setup 
and get running in a basic configuration, but can be confusing to get all 
of the flat files right.  I would like to make it so that a user with 
appropriate priviledges can change the configuration of the system.  This 
would also be configurable through one of the config files, to help 
prevent against hacking. =)

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Bailey" <address@hidden>
> To: "Paul Traina" <address@hidden>; "Jeff Bailey" <address@hidden>;
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Maintainer?
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 11:30:09AM -0700, Paul Traina wrote:
> >
> > I'm starting some patches for gnatsd to provide information on the
> > structure of the database.  The next set will be the ability to modify
> > the database structure through gnatsd.
> >
> > I'm cooking up a front end for my work that looks a little bit more like
> > bugzilla.  It will be done in PHP.  I may offer it for the contrib/
> > directory.
> >
> > I wanted to make sure that Gnats was still being maintained/it was
> > possible to contribute, so I don't have to fork.  I think I may already
> > have assignment papers into the FSF from 3 or 4 years ago.
> >
> > > I can help.  What are your changes?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jeff Bailey" <address@hidden>
> > > To: <address@hidden>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:21 AM
> > > Subject: Maintainer?
> > >
> > >
> > > > Who is the current maintainer of GNATS?  I have some patches that I'm
> > > > preparing against the CVS, but I notice that there hasn't been a
> commit
> > > > in months.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by
> > > > the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all."
> > > >  - Douglas Adams
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > "It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by
> > the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all."
> >  - Douglas Adams
> >

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"It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by
the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all."
 - Douglas Adams