Not sure if this helps, and I don't know the details or the mechanism, but I believe that John Wiegley uses org-mode as a bug tracking tool for his ledger app.
http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger
> Using org-mode instead of outline-mode is a no-brainer. The onlyI will write a page on Worg about this.
> incovenient is org's complexity. A basic but effective use of org is
> straightforward but its extensive documentation may seem daunting for
> the occasional user. Maybe a paragraph or two at the beginning of the
> file explaining what's required for adding entries and doing simple
> queries would help those developers who don't know nor plan to use org
> for other uses.
Aside from the scalability of Org wrt to big bug databases, I'm myself
>> This is the basic workflow. Of course, permissions and other issues
>> could be refined but I think such a system is feasible.
>
> IMAO this setup is more complex and fragile than a conventional bug
> tracker. The idea may seem appealing at first for a group of veteran
> emacs users (those who insist on managing the bug database via e-mail
> because they refuse to use a web browser, for instance) but I'm far from
> convinced about its effectiveness.
only 50% convinced it's an effective setup. I'd be glad to work on the
remaining 50%.
I don't know. Org is certainly not written for that purpose. But
>> I don't think the size of the database would really be an issue for the
>> system above - but maybe I'm wrong on this.
>
> I'm afraid you are. Lots of emacs bug reports comprises hundreds of
> lines of stack dumps, plus e-mail discussions with lots of quoted text,
> etc. Org is great for notes, but is it practical for containing tens of
> thousands of bug reports, some of them made of thousands of lines? And
> you don't control what's on a bug report, they usually contain all sorts
> of text constructs and random characters. How well it would deal with
> bug reports about org's itself, containing excerpts from other org
> files? Wouldn't this confuse org?
cannot the dumps and discussions but attached as files? If so, the
Org database would only need links to these files, not the full bug
entry.
Gee...
> Nope, the 20MB is the bugs' text alone.
Yes.
> But attached files belong to the
> tickets and supposedly provide key information, so you can wipe them
> away to a place where they are not distributed along with the bug
> database.
Yes. In the setup I described in the previous email, no human directly
> I think org as a bug tracker may work very well for individual
> developers or for small groups, but not for open big projects such as
> emacs.
write anything in an Org buffer, everything is taken care of by scripts.
Which is kinda sick, 'cause Org is for humans.
But still, I will continue to brainstorm on this, because if Org is so
useful for individual bug databases, there should be a clever and useful
way to *share* these individual databases and have a collective tool.
--
Bastien
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