Re: [Phpwiki-talk] DEFINITION: Ticket Tracking

[<jo...@or...>]

Steve Wainstead <sw...@pa...> wrote:

> I have a question. Are you familiar with the "Category" and "Topic"
> conventions used on some Wikis?

You're right.  I can do it with Categories.  I've spent the last few days
playing around and trying to think the Wiki Way.  As a result, my to-do
list has changed considerably.  Tops now is email notification (which would
have been an aspect of the ticket tracking system) and templates (which
will help keep things from getting too cluttered).  Notification will have
to be triggerable not just from changes to a page, but also from new links
to that page.  It would also be nice if there were a 
<?plugin include OtherPage> and if that include plugin could bring in more
email notification requests from OtherPage.  That way when someone makes a
new page which "NeedsFinanceAssessment", and NeedsFinanceAssessment
includes FinancePeople, it will all work out.

I have a few questions:

  * Is there a proposal on board for templates as in the 1.3 task list?  Is
    there some other wiki which does it right I should go look at?

  * Is there a reason to prefer [notify:JoeEdelman] for email alerts to 
    "* JoeEdelman - joe at orbis-tertius.net" as per TWiki?

  * The /SubPages like on UseMod would be really easy to implement.  Should
    they be?

  * Does anyone anywhere support "half-links" that don't show up in
    BackLinks?  It seems one problem with categories is that even pages
    which just mention them or point to them as part of documentations are
    categorized.  I suppose this could be fixed with a plugin.  It seems
    like an un-wiki thing to do, but on the other hand, I don't want my
    users to have to read through noise.

  * Is there a good reason IsAProject is not a WikiWord?

  * I'm also interested in making a general search tool plugin that shows
    some meta data about every document it pulls up, or that pulls data
    from the page (<?plugin searchTable "*Person" age?> might look for
    lines beginning "Age: " and list what follows as a column in the
    results).  Any thoughts?

  * I really want my searches to be able to tell me when a Category was
    added to a page, even if that page has been modified several times
    since then.  Would it be possible to add a "ctime" to the link table?

  Thanks,

  Joe