Re: [mantisbt-dev] Requesting feedback on the plugin TriggerClose

[Carl H. <hel...@gm...>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Robert Munteanu
<rob...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Carl Helmertz <hel...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hello list!
>>
>> I've started to play around with Mantis and it's a really nice piece
>> of software, especially the API :) As a result of the experimentation,
>> I've written a plugin called TriggerClose. Paraphrasing the readme:
>>
>> "The plugin allows you to tell Mantis to 'close all bugs marked as feedback
>> which have not been modified in the last 30 days'. Except that it can select
>> which issues to close depending on the issue's category or status."
>>
>> I'd like to get better at using the inner workings of Mantis so any
>> comments on the code
>> (https://github.com/chelmertz/mantis-triggerclose) is appreciated.
>
> The plugin looks nice, my only comment is that I'd possibly move the
> processing in a separate page and invoke it from a cron job, rather
> thank invoking it randomly from any page. But I guess you already have
> that on your todo :-)

Allright, finally got the time allocated to pimp the script a bit, a
basic CLI interface is implemented.

>>
>> Also, is this the correct list or is it reserved for dev on the Mantis core?
>
>
> We welcome all Mantis-related discussions here, not only the core ones.

Thanks for the reply!

Let me know if you'd like the repository added to
https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins somehow.

//Carl

> Robert
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carl