Re: [mantisbt-dev] linking bugs in Mantis to remote bugs

[John R. <jr...@le...>]

Madhumita Dhar wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> As part of an ongoing project that I am working on, we wish to develop a
> tool which synchronizes between different bugtrackers
> (https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/WebHome). The goal is to provide a system of monitoring bugs in different distributions, which are interlinked and sometimes duplicated, in upstream projects.
> 
> So in Mantis, our objective is to build a plugin which allows linking to
> remote bugs, in addition to the currently provided feature of linking to
> local bugs. The remote bugs could be in other bugtrackers or other
> Mantis instances.
> 
> The idea is inspired from bts-link (http://bts-link.alioth.debian.org/).
> Launchpad also provides such a feature.
> 
> In this respect, I would like to ask
> - have there been any thoughts in this direction or is there something
> similar which is on the Todo/Wish list??
> - would it be beneficial if we make such a contribution to mantis??
> 
> Any feedback is welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Madhumita
> 

This could be implemented as a plugin for 1.2.x.  The plugin could be as 
simple as hooking the EVENT_DISPLAY_* functions, and replacing special 
strings with links to external trackers.

As for contribution, I think it would be a useful community plugin.  You 
can host the plugin on MantisForge [1] as a Git repository, where all 
the other community plugins are currently kept.  This would allow others 
to further contribute to the plugin later on while keeping it all nicely 
version controlled.

Cheers

[1] http://git.mantisforge.org

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