#10 Modularize Task Entry & Display

[Chris Embree]

One of the reasons I was drawn to ITMS was that it
looked pretty easy to integrate into an Issue/Bug
tracking system. There are probably several other
projects that could benefit from an API type interface to
ITMS. I also see the value of having ITMS as a seperate
entity.

I'd love to be able to assign staff members tasks as
steps in resolving a bug. I'd also like to be able to use it
pretty much as it is, to assign tasks.

Issue: coordinating user id's and passwords.

possible solution: create an external table to relate
bug/issue task numbers to ITMS User ID's. would
require inteligent system admins.

[Matt Palmerlee]

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Chris-
Let me see if I know what you mean by an API type interface
to ITMS:
You would like to see a more generic API for tracking any
type of data (i.e. tasks, bugs, reminders, etc...) and ITMS
would just be one implementation of that API (for managing
tasks, but someone else could make another program for
traking bugs in projects or something).
OR
You would like to see ITMS modified to just make it easier to
track bugs on a particular project as well as have the current
abilities of assigning tasks ITMS currently has.

I like your ideas, thought I'd just try to get some more input
on how you invision the API working.

thanks,
-Matt

[Chris Embree]

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Hey Matt,

I'd just like to make it easy to integrate ITMS into other
applications. I already have found a pretty decent bug/issue
tracking system. Now I want to add the ability to assign
tasks to developers as part of the bug/issue resolution.
Probably just a link to task_assign2.php or something similar.

The interesting part will be allowing users to see tasks
assigned via the API from the normal ITMS interface.

[Matt Palmerlee]

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Chris-
I like your Idea, it does seem like it could be useful to
have a small task "Control Panel" type thing that people
could include in their webpage. The issue of integration
of users and passwords does seem like it would be the
tricky part, maybe ITMS should use a more standard
package for authentication (something like phplip) that
way ITMS would integrate seamlessly other apps written
with the std. authentication package.

-Matt