Re: [Monotone-devel] Announce: DisTract - Distributed Bug Tracker based on Monotone

[Paul Crowley]

Brian May wrote:
> Correct me if you have already considered this, however I think more
> work needs to be done on tracking where a bug is fixed and where the
> bug remains open.
>
> For example, just marking the bug as fixed could be confusing if you
> sync the BTS before you sync the repository containing the bug fix. Or
> for people using other branches. How do I know if my branch is fixed?

This is an interesting problem, but:

* DisTract may be used to track any tasks, not just those which are 
fixed by checking in source code
* Other bug tracking systems don't solve this problem either - at least 
not in a way that's integrated specifically with Monotone.

I think the solutions you propose are interesting and worth thinking 
about, but I would want to see DisTract achieve something approximating 
feature parity with other bug tracking systems before I'd attack this 
problem.