Re: [TCLCORE] Tcl - Tracker/Ticket System Conversion

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Trevor Davel (Twylite)
<tw...@cr...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2013/06/07 03:12 PM, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>>> now have a fossil-based ticket system based on the last snapshot (*)
>>> obtained from the SF trackers before their conversion to Allura
>>> sometime yesterday.
>> Also, Tcl has now been converted in the same way.
>>    https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/reportlist
>
> SF's tracker offered (at least) two capabilities to keep me in touch
> with project issues:
>
> (1) If I created a ticket or commented on an existing ticket, I could be
> subscribed to e-mail notifications of all subsequent action on that
> ticket; and
>
> (2) I could receive e-mail notification of all action on all tickets for
> a project.

For (2) we are working on getting a equivalent capability up and
running on core.
The main lead for that project is Alexandre Ferrieux.

We currently need a fossil with Tcl enabled, to use some of its hooks,
and are in touch with Richard about this.



>
> Now that the Fossil tracker is being used, how can I keep abreast of
> changes?
>
> - If I file a new bug and someone comments on it - or there is a change
> on an existing bug that I have submitted or commented on - how will I
> know?  Is there some automatic e-mail notification I am unaware of?
>
> - Monitoring new/updated tickets via the 'Recently Changed' list really
> isn't an option.  That turns an automatic process with a low cognitive
> burden (receive e-mail, scan content, mark read) into a manual process
> with a much higher cognitive burden (find bookmark, browse to page, scan
> down and click through on each [relevant] link to discover the content
> of the change, stop when I start to recognise items I've seen before).
>
> - Monitoring via RSS is significantly less friendly than e-mail
> notifications.  e.g. I can subscribe to
> http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline.rss?y=t to see changes, but then for
> each I have to click through to get the detail of what changed, and then
> click to a further page to get the context/history of the bug.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Twylite



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