[Mapserver-dev] SWIG MapScript docs

[Daniel Morissette]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> 
> Does Bugzilla support any sort of triggers that will free us from double 
> bug
> entry?  The underlying database (MySQL?) would, yes?
> 

I don't think it supports that directly.  However there are a few ways 
to accomodate what we need:

1- We could enable the QA-contact feature and then set the QA contact 
for PHP MapScript to be the SWIG MapScript maintainer, and vice-versa.

2- We could use an email alias as the default owner for all MapScript 
and PHP MapScript bugs.  Then we include all MapScript developers in 
that alias and everytime a bug is entered for those components then all 
developers receive a copy.  FYI we already do that for all MapServer 
components that DMSG maintains: all our MapServer bugs are assigned by 
default to mapserver-bugs at dmsolutions dot ca, this way everyone who 
needs to know at our end is informed when a new bug in our stuff is 
reported.

3- If the "supportwatchers" option was enabled, then I could set myself 
up to watch the owner of SWIG-mapscript bugs and vice-versa.  When you 
set yourself up to watch someone else, then you receive copies of all 
bugzilla email notifications that this person receives...so you're aware 
of all bugs that they've worked on.  Combined with an email alias 
specific to mapscript bugs, that would allow anyone who is interested to 
watch mapscript bugs.

I think #2 would be the best way to go (possibly combined with #3). We 
could even go further and use a common email alias as default owner for 
all MapServer bugs. That email alias would include at least the main 
developers, so that we are aware of all bugs that are entered.  We use 
email aliases per project with bugzilla this way internally at DMSG and 
that works very well. You can also see an example of that with Chameleon 
bugs (http://maptools.org/bugzilla/) which are assigned to 
chameleon-dev at ... by default and anyone who wants to be notified of 
chameleon bugs can subscribe to that developers mailing list.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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