[Savannah-dev] New Bug Tracker in preparation

[Laurent Julliard]

Guys,

For your information I'm in the process of delivering a new major 
release of the CodeX bug tracking system to Xerox and I'm also keeping 
the Savannah Bug Tracking System aligned. So expect a new release of 
the BTS in the course of next week.

In the mean time I'd appreciate if you could keep me aware of any 
changes you are thinking of doing in the source code of the bug 
tracker (if any) and see if it can be postponed by a week or two just 
to avoid merge operation with my own big changes. Keep me posted in 
any case.

For those of you who are curious to know what will be in the new 
version here is a short description:


- 3 new fields were added to the bug tracking system: Originator Name, 
Email and Phone. However there is no specific action taken on the 
Originator email. We have put in place a separate CC list in the bug form
(Bug Admin -> Field Usage)

- A list of new custom fields have been added to the Bug tracker: you 
have a set of 10 text areas, 10 text fields, 10 date fields and 10 
select boxes that you can fully customize including the label, the size...
(Bug Admin -> Field Usage)

- The bug modification form has a new section called CC list which 
allows the bug technicians to add any email address or any CodeX user 
in the list of person notified on bug updates. (if you want the 
originator to be notified you'll have to include it in the CC list 
explicitely)

- Each CodeX user can now customize the kind of events she wants to be 
notified whenever a bug is updated. This can dependent on the nature 
of the change but also on the role you play for a given bug (assignee, 
submitter, CC list member, Commenter). This makes it very flexible
(Bug Admin -> Notification Settings)

- A user can also ask to receive the notifications sent to other users 
(very useful when sbdy is acting as a backup of a team member who is 
away from the office)
(Bug Admin -> Notification Settings)

Laurent

PS: the enhancement in the notification part are largely inspired by 
Bugzilla.

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