Re: [Freepos-cvs] cvs and gnats link?

[John Minnihan]

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> We had a bug that toasted some product (see many $$ here).  Now management
> wants a "formal" system of notification, complete with reports and and
> appropriate sign off when changes take place.  With absolutely nothing for a
> budget of course.  This sweeping bureacracy change is to include a bug
> tracking system.   I've been looking at GNATS and would like to know if CVS
> and GNATS can be linked.  From a developer standpoint, it would be most
> convenient and less error prone to type the same information once rather
> than twice.  I ran across a statement that ClearCase and GNATS could be
> linked but didn't find any evidence to support it.   I'm also looking at
> Bugzilla and Jitterbug.  What do you use?  Any recommendations?
>
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Bugzilla is the way to go on such a budget.  Are you still using CC 
in-house?  I have personally tied CC and Gnats together years ago using 
some fairly crude perl scripts.  Not sure if I'd even remember how... it 
was a pre-commit trigger that opened a Gnats bug record.  This was in 
early '98.  I'll dig around to see if I still have the code.

When I last used Gnats, the back-end was flat files.  That being the 
case, data could come into Gnats in pretty loose format, nearly 
free-form in some cases.  That would of course, limit the searching and 
reporting.

That said, Bugzilla can be configured to email all sorts of folks at 
various triggers. Triggers in this case usually means an external event, 
perhaps as basic as someone changing states in an open bug.

CC's use of triggers here is the key: if you understand pre- and post- 
operation triggers, you can make this work.  One drawback to bugzilla, 
though: it is entirely web-centric.  I don't <think> there's a CLI for it.

Email me off-list, Jeanie, if you would like to see how Bugzilla 
functions.  I'll setup a hosted account for you.
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John Minnihan
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