Make a real bug tracker?

[Amunak]

Posting after a month or so...

When I saw all the posts in the "unread" list, it wasn't really nice. I want to be notified of bugs, but I don't need to see twenty separate threads. There is a point in making them (as moritary said) though. What about making a real bugtracker? I think that forum isn't good enough to serve this purpose. I have good experience with Flyspray. It is open source, higly configurable ticket system.

[michal]

Also, we should consider https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/issues

[Volutar]

And how one can post a bug report without registering on github or somewhere else? We should consider it's lot easier to post bug report here, on the forum, than to register once more somewhere else. If bug tracker can be integrated with forum registration - that would be more than nice.

[michal]

Yeah, it's a downside of using github.

[Daiky]

I looked up SMF flyspray bridge and found this:
https://svn.gna.org/svn/clansuite/resources/smf2flyspray%20bridge/flyspray.bridge.php

It must be possible to bridge SMF and a bug tracking software so you only need to register once.

[Amunak]

It is possible (even without a bridge) - both is written in PHP, you can just change the login query.

[michal]

Check also this:

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=476087.0

[SupSuper]

Personally I'm fond of Mantis.

But I doubt that'd really solve the problem. For me it would be a lot easier to only have to check one place (and the forum is at least convenient for discussing stuff that usually comes out of bug reports). But everyone has their own preferred method of communication, so I get bug reports in e-mail, in the forum, in the IRC channel, in the GitHub issue tracker, and any other means they find of contacting me.

[michal]

Maybe tagging system could help a bit with organizing bug forum? For example we could create tags like:
- bug-open
- bug-closed
- bug-battlescape
- bug-geoscape

Later we could create tags for other things (that's why i prefixed every tag with "bug-") like "suggestion-geoscape", "suggestion-battlescape" etc

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=579

[Daiky]

I think suggestions supposed to go in the suggestions forum  And when something is fixed I put a tag [Fixed] in the title. It kinda works.
Or  :
https://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/
https://bugs.openttd.org/
https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands
https://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/issues/list
https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?group=wesnoth

:p

[michal]

I think suggestions supposed to go in the suggestions forum 

I wasn't suggesting that suggestions should go into other forum. I was proposing tagging sugestion topics. That way you could find all topic related to (for example) geoscape.

[michal]

And how one can post a bug report without registering on github or somewhere else? We should consider it's lot easier to post bug report here, on the forum, than to register once more somewhere else. If bug tracker can be integrated with forum registration - that would be more than nice.

Maybe we could install something like flyspray and allow anonymous bugs submitting? If we won't find a way to integrate.

[SupSuper]

I've had a dream. A dream of a new website with fully integrated WordPress, forum, bug tracker and translator, all under one login...

[Daiky]

... and the bug tracker linked to github ? Or isn't that even part of your wildest dreams :p

[SupSuper]

Well there is a GitHub API...

Granted if you just want a bug tracker tied to GitHub, there's already the GitHub bug tracker. If only people weren't allergic to logins...