[chandler-users] First impressions

[Heikki Toivonen]

Yorgos Pagles wrote:
> After a few weeks of heavy usage of Chandler Preview (I have also used
> previous releases but I don't think that they count) as mainly a task
> list I am delighted with the whole triage idea as it is a very simple
> and yet effective and powerful way of keeping focused in the most
> important of the gazillions of taks that require my attention without
> worrying that I will neglect the not so urgent ones. Stamping my tasks
> as calendar events comes in handy as a specific task can include
> setting up a meeting etc.

It's great to hear that, thanks!

> * The starter project "integration with bugzilla" you have in your
> wish list would be for me "integration with issue trackers" as we
> don't use bugzilla but some other issue tracker. You should know that
> most developers' main collaboration tool is their issue tracker. I
> think that I could help with this one if there are any thoughts /
> previous work available.

When that idea was originally thrown around, Chandler was very
different. So this will basically have to start from zero. Fortunately I
think there is something that we could model this after.

The Eclipse project has a plugin called Mylyn, which includes Bugzilla
connector. In Mylyn, you can create and edit bugs through its UI, make
queries, and set a bug as an active task. The last is a really cool
concept with Eclipse, because Mylyn can track what files you are editing
to fix that bug and gradually hide stuff that is irrelevant to your
current bug. This helps you focus to the task at hand, especially with
large source trees.

How would this mold a Bugzilla/some other issue tracker plugin for
Chandler? I think the plugin should allow one to create queries for bugs
and dump the results into the now, later or done section. I could
imagine doing a query for all the bugs in Chandler milestone 0.7.3 and
showing them in now section. I'd mark all but the one I was working
right then as later. After I'd fixed a bug I could perhaps change the
current bug to done, which would automatically close the bug as fixed.
There are obviously a lot of questions that would need to be answered
about this design, but it seems like it would be possible and Mylyn has
showed that it is also useful.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen


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