[ODFPlugtest] Tracking implementation defects

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

plugtest-bounces at opendocsociety.org wrote on 06/30/2009 12:08:12 PM:

 
> 
> Indeed, although currently you can click on the "backlinks" link in 
> the implementation to see what scenario has open issues for that 
> implementation.
> 

OK.  I did not notice this "backlinks" link.  I think that gives me what I 
need.

> Another reason (one I've also mentioned in the FAQ), is that I'm 
> expecting people to report these issues to the projects/vendors so 
> they can enter it in _their_ bug track system or knowledge base...
> 

It would still be good to have a centralized list of these defects, 
perhaps with links to the underlying vendor report, if that is available 
online.  But in some cases, reporting defects to the vendor is rather 
difficult.  For example, do you realize how many layers of internal help 
desktop support I would need to go through within IBM before any issue 
would be submitted to Microsoft?  It is crazy.  And even if I was able to 
do this, the defect report would not be visible to anyone else.  So having 
this information mirrored on the wiki is useful.

> Far from perfect of course, although I'm inclined to think that at 
> this point more tools (wiki and bugtrack...) aren't the answer :-)
>

With the wiki backlinks support we're probably OK for dealing with 50 or 
so scenarios and 200 or so defects.  But I'm not sure it will scale much 
beyond that. Not performance-wise, but in terms of support for things like 
searching, sorting, filtering, etc., needed to deal with larger data sets. 
 But we are probably OK for now.

-Rob
 
> In a perfect world, I'd want to have both an issue list underneath 
> the scenarios (because finding an issue in one implementation may 
> lead to finding an issues in another) and the implementations.
> 
> But Perhaps there's a bugtrack plugin for DokuWiki that can do just that 
?
> 
> 
> Bart
> 
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> Subject: [ODFPlugtest] Tracking implementation defects
> 
> I think it would be good if we entered implementation-defects on the 
> implementation page.  That would make it easier to find for an 
> implementors since they would not need to load every single scenario 
page 
> to look for an issue. 
> 
> For example, I entered some items on Google Docs here: 
> http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=implementations:gdocs
> 
> Note that this is still laborious since we end up transcribing info from 

> the scenario page to the implementation page.  A better alternative 
might 
> be to use JIRA or Bugzilla for defect tracking, since that would give us 

> easier reporting support, and tracking of comments and even voting.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
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