[OSM-talk] Proposal for a map-bug tracker (Openstreetbugs)

Matt Amos zerebubuth at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 12:57:35 GMT 2008


can i plug http://www.redmine.org/ ?

its a very nice bit of software and we may be able to steal the
bug-tracking bit of it.

cheers,

matt

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Christoph Böhme <christoph at b3e.net> wrote:
> Just a follow up to my last message:
> I did a bit of research on the osm software stack yesterday evening and
> I think implementing a genuine map bugtracker isn't more work than
> adapting bugzilla. This is basically because the most important part of
> the map bugtracker is the user interface. And that has to be rewritten
> in both cases. The rest consists only of some database tables and a
> RESTful controller to add, edit, and query bugs in the database and
> return them in different formats (e.g. XML, JSON, RSS).
>
> I recently started to work with Pylons which is claims to be very
> similar to Rails. From this experience I expect the job of writing a
> bugtracker-controller to be not very difficult. I will try to install
> the rails-port on my computer at the weekend and have a look at it.
> For the user interface side it might be possible to user the current
> osb code as a starting point.
>
> It would be nice if we could decide on one solution instead of
> implementing two competing ones. So, it would be good to have a look at
> the advantages and disadvantages of a bugzilla and a rails-port
> solution and decide then which one fits best. Perhaps which should also
> ask the software developers how they feel about moving from trac to
> bugzilla. This seemed to be one of your main points for using bugzilla.
>
> Christoph
>
>
> Christoph Böhme <christoph at b3e.net> schrieb:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Steffen Vogel <info at steffenvogel.de> schrieb:
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 27.11.2008, 15:16 +0000 schrieb Christoph Böhme:
>> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bugtracker_proposal
>> >
>> > Hey great work!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> > I already modified the software-bug classifications, statuses of
>> > Bugzilla, due to the needs of a MapBugTracker.
>> >
>> > Do we have some perl programmers around here?
>>
>> I am more into python ...
>>
>> > I could need some help to adapt the slippy map scripts to Bugzilla.
>> > It's not as hard as it might sound.
>> > Bugzilla owns a XML-RPC backend which we can use...
>>
>> This sounds quite handy and like a clean interface. However, Richard's
>> comment about the complexity of writing a new bugtracker compared to
>> adapting one for mapping still makes me think. At the moment it looks
>> like as if we have to replace the current user interface of bugzilla
>> with a completely new one that is suitable for mapping. The original
>> user interface won't be of much use for a map bugtracker (I personally
>> would always want to see where the bugs are). I am wondering how much
>> code there is in a bugtracker which is independent from the user
>> interface. Basically it boils down to the question if we write a new
>> interface how many parts of bugzilla will we actually use? And will
>> these parts fit well into a map bugtracker?
>>
>> Bugzilla has an incredible amount of features but to me they seem to
>> be made very much for software developer teams where only a relatively
>> small number of people is actually fixing bugs. This is quite
>> different to the osm community where several thousand people can
>> possibly solve bugs. I thinks this makes many of bugzillas features
>> unneccessary or even counterproductive if they were used in the osm
>> community.
>>
>> I really do not want to put you off from adapting bugzilla to
>> openstreetmap but at the moment I cannot see what advantages we would
>> get from using bugzilla compared to creating something specific for
>> osm.
>>
>>       Christoph
>>
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