Re: [mantisbt-dev] Introduction and Questions

[Victor B. <vb...@gm...>]

Hi Gianluca,

On 7/24/07, Gianluca Sforna <gi...@gm...> wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Victor Boctor <vb...@gm...> wrote:
>
> >
> > - Support for Global Categories - Would be useful.  As we work on the
> > requirements we will understand more the impact on Mantis usability.
> > I really would like to avoid complicating the categories support.  You
> > may want to look at Global/Private Profiles as a similar feature.
>
> Yes, that's the part of the proposal I like most. I'd prefer if global
> categories (a list managed by the admin?) _could_ be added to projects
> by managers and not inherited automatically.

When I was thinking about the fact that half of the users want to
inherit versions, categories, custom fields from projects and to
sub-projects and probably the other half don't.  I was thinking that
one option might be to have flags on the project to indicate whether
to inherit versions, inherit categories, etc.  This way one project
can inherit and the may not.  On the other hand, you may have one
project that is added as a sub-project of two projects.  In this case
the idea the inheritance flags will be shared by both.

Anyway, just lets put these thoughts in the requirements and then
discuss the draft.

Regards,
Victor