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Requirements for a bug-tracking system
29 March 2005
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[bugtracker]
Here’s what I want out of a bug tracking system:
- Must track bugs
- I want milestones with bugs in, so I can see, for a given release, how many bugs are still open, who’s working on them, and how close I am.
- Speaking of which, a ‘release’ must be a first-class object, not just another sort of bug, with other bugs dependant on it. Releases are not bugs.
- I want an intermediate stage of bug, between ‘open’, and ‘closed’, which is ‘complete and ready for testing’ - the tester should close the bug.
- Has to be web-based, no platform-specific tools must be required..
- ..but should also have a decent REST/something else API, so I can point a GUI tool at it when I want to. I’m a big fan of GUI tools.
Excerpts and Markdown
29 March 2005
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[markdown]
[text]
Markdown allows you to specify links [like this][1], and then specify the link target later in the file:
[1]: http://server/path/somewhere
This is really nice, and makes for very readable raw text, but it has a disadvantage when WordPress decides that it wants to automatically make an excerpt of something by truncating the raw text, then running it through the filter. You get a very ugly excerpt and lots of hanging links. The alternative, of course, is to process the text, produce XHTML, and then truncate it randomly, producing (probably) malformed XML. Not nice.
As a work-around, I’ve just removed all excerpts from this site - everything that ever appears should be full-text. It’s not like I type a lot normally…