alternate SCM. Was Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Linux leaves Bitkeeper: quite a dustup

[Scott Laird]

On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Steven Critchfield wrote:
>> Interface to mantis bug tracker
>
> Are we truly tied to Mantis? I haven't used it much, but didn't think 
> it
> was very useful.
>
> I like trac, but I think it is too tightly coupled with SVN to be used
> with another SCM. Specifically what I like about trac is the ability to
> mark tickets as part of a milestone and work towards clearing all open
> tickets in a milestone for release. Then again, I haven't seen any way
> in trac to easily manage multiple trees.

Trac is very cool.  There seems to be some interest in ungluing it from 
SVN--there's a patch out there to make it work with darcs, but it 
hasn't been merged yet.  Trac's bug tracker isn't very fancy, but it 
seems to be good enough for a lot of projects.  Ruby on Rails is the 
busiest project that I deal with that uses Trac, and they don't seem to 
have a lot of problems dealing with dozens of patches and bug reports 
each day.  I really like Trac's changeset tracking.  Examples:

   http://dev.rubyonrails.org/timeline
   http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/1155

I'm not sure that it's well-suited to the long-running bug discussion 
that tends to turn up in Mantis, though.


Scott