Fwd: Picket

[Serge Matveenko]

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Subject: Picket
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From: Holger Rapp <sir...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
To: sergema...@users.sourceforge.net



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Hey,

I just had a short look at your picket project. It is more or less what I am
searching for: a django bug tracking application. I want to use it for
widelands (www.widelands.org).

Could you comment on a few things:

1) How complete is it? Which features are implemented
2) How stable is it? Have you used it on any production site?
3) How willing are you to implement new features?
4) Do you know of any concurrence product that could also (or even better) fulfill my needs?

Cheers,
Holger


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From: Serge Matveenko <se...@matveenko.ru>
Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:18 PM
To: Holger Rapp <sir...@users.sourceforge.net>


Hello, Holger!

It's nice to know that somebody is interested in my product. It is much or less all core Mantis features are implemented.
Administration is still not very usable and permissions management is not well implemented yet.
And there is not much documentation now sadly. It is stable in most ways, but there might be some broken links to functions that are not implemented yet.
I have one local installation of Picket that lives as my personal task manager but no production installs yet. But we really want to finish our product and use it for our projects to replace Mantis and completely remove PHP from our servers finally. We are always glad to know about good ideas for our project. I couldn't guarantee that we will implement one particular feature because we don't want to grow our product to made it monstrous like some other but we want to make Picket as usable as possible.
There is one concept for new outrageous interface for bugtracker that we work on now. This concept is preparing to be implemented in Picket after public discussions. I know there is some task trackers but no one that you could compare with Bugzilla or Mantis. You could look for Trac but it is not Django app but writen in Python also.

P.S.: Holger, could I or you by yourself forward this our discussion to Picket discussion list (http://groups.google.com/group/picket)?


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From: Holger Rapp <Holge...@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM
To: Serge Matveenko <se...@matveenko.ru>

Hi,

Feel free to forward this conversation. 

Mmh, permission management is quite important. 

I can understand the urge to remove PHP :). Nevertheless, widelands is not the most important project there is, but I am unwilling to spend working power of my team on improving the bug tracker. We really need a working solution. We especially like the current launchpad bug tracker implementation (with email support and ajax scripting), but this requires all of our bug reporters to register at launchpad. 

Imho a bug tracker must stay out of the way. I dig with the launchpad tracker that i can file bugs from the cmdline (while programming), so there is no code->todo list->tracker just code->tracker, which is very useful. Support for this is rather easy using some kind of AJAX interface, then cmdline scripts can easily be written. 

I'd like to hear about this. What is it?

I really, really like trac. Imho they provide a complete solution for bug tracking and continous integration. There is no support to couple django and trac user logins to each other except for some unproven hacks. I do not want to rely on that and if I can't get this feature, i can as well stay on launchpad/sf.net. 

Cheers,

SirVer

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