[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker

Wed Sep 6 14:07:01 UTC 2006

This sounds like exactly what I've been looking for as well --- a way to
make mediawiki into a bug tracker .. so I can avoid having a whole other
system running for that.....

Mediawiki project itself is of course using Bugzilla .... and it 'looks'
like mediawiki, but it's still a separate system, separate logins, and gah
.. perl! ... so..

If you go ahead with the install of this, post back how it goes for you!
Curious as to ease-of-installation... what version etc...

--
Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Purl" <tom-qvFsOSR2l5NBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
Cc: <mediawiki-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: MediaWiki-Based Issue Tracker

This looks perfect Max.  Thanks!

> Hi Tom,
>
>   I  guess  the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise
>   what  you  have  in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each
>   page    and   a   [[status:=open]]   or   [[status:=pending]]   or
>   [[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can
>     <ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask>
>   to get a list of open issues.
>
>   Come  to  http://www.ontoworld.org  and  take  a  look  a  a running
>   MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>   Max Völkel
> --
> Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI
>             nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
> voelkel-OQR7qqye5Tk at public.gmane.org   +49 721 9654-854   www.xam.de
>
> Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am new to MediaWiki. Any
>> help
>> you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
>
>> I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki.  The main reason that I
>> use the
>> MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue
>> tracker
>> within it.  Here's basically how it works:
>
>> * Each "ticket" is represented by a single wiki page that uses a
>> particular prefix in its name
>> * Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something
>> like
>> this:
>>     * StatusOpen
>>     * StatusClosed
>>     * StatusPendingDefect
>> * The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page,
>> contains
>> macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket
>> based on
>> its status.  Here's basically what it looks like:
>
>>     Browse Issues
>>     =============
>
>>     Open Issues
>>     -----------
>>     1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A
>>     2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B
>
>>     Pending Defect
>>     --------------
>>     1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue
>
>>     Closed Issues
>>     -------------
>>     1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
>
>> * This dashboard view is dynamic.  If I create a new wiki page prefaced
>> by
>> "IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically
>> appear
>> under the "Open Issues" header.
>
>> This page is not available on the internet, but I basically ripped it
>> off
>> from
>> the http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
>
>> So my first question is, is there a plugin like this available for
>> MediaWiki
>> with which anyone is familiar?
>
>> If not, then I have a second question.  I was able to implement all of
>> this
>> (which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin
>> macros,
>> which
>> are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page.  Is there
>> similar
>> functionality available within MediaWiki?
>
>> Thanks in advance for all of the help!
>
>> Tom Purl
>
>
>

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