RE: [Mantisbt-dev] Configuration Editor for Mantis

[Paul R. <pa...@qu...>]

I've not actually looked at the tarball with this (yet), and while I think
there should be some form of configuration editor (I'll probably look at
what you've done in a bit), my personal view is that now is not the right
time. I'll explain:

One of the future roadmap items is "Move configuration variables into the
database "
There has been some talking about discussing the possibilities on this post
0.19 release. Implementing a configuration editor now, it might need to be
rewritten before the next release seems like a waste of effort.

Of course, there's two points to note here:
a) there still needs to be some sort of config file (even if some/most of
the config was in the DB) to be able to locate the DB.
b) it could be that the configuration editor your working on could be used
to start to form the basis of a 'database configuration editor'

/me makes note to look at tarball later.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: man...@li... 
> [mailto:man...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Mitch (WebCob)
> Sent: 12 July 2004 19:57
> To: man...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Mantisbt-dev] Configuration Editor for Mantis
> 
> Neat idea, though I'm not sure about the benefit vs. the 
> maintenance effort.
> 
> Currently, people add a $g_ variable and a few lines of 
> comment... now, they'd have to ad yet another form field, and 
> help text, and so on.
> 
> I'd be more supportive if there was a way to autogenerate it 
> - I've just seen too many ideas like this one fall apart 
> through lack of maintenance, and what starts out as a good 
> idea for newbies, ends up as a half-working crutch full of confusion.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> m/
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: man...@li...
> > [mailto:man...@li...]On Behalf 
> Of Juliano 
> > Ravasi Ferraz
> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:39 AM
> > To: Mantis BT - Dev
> > Subject: [Mantisbt-dev] Configuration Editor for Mantis
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since Mantis has too many options to configure, I started 
> creating a 
> > configuration editor for it. It currently loads the current 
> > configuration settings, display them all in input form 
> fields allowing 
> > you to easily edit anything, and then, allows you to save 
> (download) 
> > the resulting configuration file to your computer for further 
> > uploading to the webserver.
> 
> 
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