Overview

Title

Research moin2 as Issue Tracker

Duration

180

Difficulty

Hard

Types

Research

Tags

issue tracking,wiki,english

Mentors

thomaswaldmann,rb_proj,waldi,esyr,pkumar_7

Count

-1

Description

Abstract

What would be needed to use moin2 as a (simple, but reasonably good) issue tracker?

Details

moin2 stores revisioned items that can have:

• some mimetyped data (e.g. a wiki or other markup text)
• some metadata used by moin (NAME, MTIME, CONTENTTYPE, TAGS, editor info, ...)
• user defined metadata (any key/value pair. if the key matches some glob pattern, it is even indexed by whoosh)

moin2 also has a very powerful search engine (whoosh) built-in, so you can easily search for all sorts of metadata or data (manually via user interface or programmatically by some code).

Deliverables: a wiki page describing precisely:

• how it would work
• what metadata/data it uses
• user interface, work flow, data flow
• features, limitations and extendability

Requires: familiarity with issue tracking, deep thinking

Benefits

Many people need a simple issue tracker:

• manage software bugs
• manage todos
• manage ideas / suggestions

A lot of issue tracker software or services already exists, but many of them have ... issues.

Skill Requirements

You'll need to do a lot of deep thinking. Precise logic and reasoning required. You need to have experience with issue trackers and their technology.

Discuss with moin devs online on IRC.

Links

Note: unless otherwise noted, tasks usually refer to moin2 (http://moinmo.in/MoinMoin2.0)!

• http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/2.0 or http://bitbucket.org/thomaswaldmann/moin-2.0 - repository of moin2

• http://moimo.in/MoinMoinChat - please join us on IRC #moin-dev

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