[phpBT-dev] New optional features (request for comments)

[Jirka P. <fi...@us...>]

I want to start adding new features before all the translations. Features
needed by me, are (1) Environemnt tracking, (2) Bug closing version
tracking, (3) External bug id tracking. I think now it's right time to
discuss these features, I'll explain it:

(1) Environment tracking means that users will be able to track the
environment (e.g. Beta testing, Limited production etc.) application is
running in. I know that we have Version, but it's insufficient. Here is an
example: Let's have one application, which is running on Testing site. The
same application is running in separated Limited production (usually called
'pilot') environment. Some bugs may appear in version 1.5 only in Limited
production environment, but these bugs will never appear on Testing site
which has the same version, but something may be set up differently. The bug
may appear due to stricter user rights settings or something similar, for
example. When developers will be able to track that the bug appeared only in
Limited production, they will have less work to track it. I hope this will
be usefull per project option.

(2) Bug closing version is planned to be the Version number, where the bug
is fixed or where it will be fixed. Bug closing version may be submitted
when the bug status is changing to Closed or Verified, I'm not sure yet. We
will put one of next planned versions number into this field. It's similar
to External bug id, but the Bug closing version will be selected from
version_name field in TBL_VERSION. This is already planned into release
0.9.0.

(3) External bug id tracking means that we will have one more varchar field
in TBL_BUG. This (same as previous two) can be per project confuguration
option. It's needed when you have too many people contributing and some of
them using other bug tracking system. They need to add their bug tracking
system's bug id to phpBugTracker and they usually want to be able to search
by it or filter the search by it.

I'll do all of these in 3 weeks and I want to start as soon as possible, so
tell me if I'm thinking about it somehow wrong.
Jirka Pech