Re: ADV: Gnats?

[Chad Walstrom]

Yes, I definitely am updating GNATS, though not at a pace that is
respectable by any means; not something I'm proud of.  I'm happy to have
any help you could offer.  There is an alpha version of GNATS out on
alpha.gnu.org that I uploaded in September.  It's essentially a snapshot
of CVS at that time.  There are a few fixes slated before the next alpha
release, such as the patches sent in by Stephane.

I'll try to roll in a few today.  The only real time I have to work on
this stuff is on the weekends, as I didn't manage to land a job where
GNATS was used.  The company is FOSS friendly, but only toward things
we're actually using.  Since they already had RT in place, GNATS fell
off the radar.

In any case, the NEWS file contains info about the big updates, the
license change to GPLv3, for example.  Take a look at the
help-gnats@... archives to see what else we've been hoping to roll
in.

Chad


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[SHIELDS Paul]

One thing I would really like to see is an additional Email trigger
option

I would like to send an Email on change with format same as the
audit-trail but not require audit trail entries.

Right now we have to create unwanted audit-trail entries just to get
Email notifications

Thanks
Paul


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Subject: Re: ADV: Gnats?

Yes, I definitely am updating GNATS, though not at a pace that is
respectable by any means; not something I'm proud of.  I'm happy to have
any help you could offer.  There is an alpha version of GNATS out on
alpha.gnu.org that I uploaded in September.  It's essentially a snapshot
of CVS at that time.  There are a few fixes slated before the next alpha
release, such as the patches sent in by Stephane.

I'll try to roll in a few today.  The only real time I have to work on
this stuff is on the weekends, as I didn't manage to land a job where
GNATS was used.  The company is FOSS friendly, but only toward things
we're actually using.  Since they already had RT in place, GNATS fell
off the radar.

In any case, the NEWS file contains info about the big updates, the
license change to GPLv3, for example.  Take a look at the
help-gnats@... archives to see what else we've been hoping to roll
in.

Chad


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[Chad Walstrom]

Hey, Paul!

I believe Mel Hatzis has already coded up an email trigger option.  He
has already integrated some of his code changes into GNU GNATS, but this
is one that I don't believe made it.  His code-base is published at:

http://professional.juniper.net/gnats/

If you search the help-gnats archive, you'll see some of his posts and
work.  I think it would be a good idea to cut a release sooner than
later.  Maybe his trigger system could be incorporated in 4.3?  We could
see about adding his RDBMS support as well.  What would be really cool
would be able to define types of databases in the global databases file
and have the gnatsd server go to different types of database backends --
file-based and rdbms.

Stephane's email queue ordering patch would be a good one to incorporate
for 4.2, as well as coming up with a fix for the \r\n problem for
incoming email.  I should also roll in my safe-open changes and
restrictions to gen-index.

Take a look at the open, analyzed, and feedback bugs on
gnats.wookimus.net.  Anything sw-bug or doc-bug that is critical should
probably be looked at for 4.2.  Patches welcome!

Chad


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[Ed Jaffe]

Anyone have a way to email the complete, formatted text of a PR to someone?

Our support people use Gnatsweb. That tool allows you to email a link to the PR to so-called "interested parties". But, we keep our GNATS data base behind our corporate firewall, which makes that link useless to customers or anyone else without GNATS access.

It would be nice if we could somehow email the HTML table (or equivalent) as formatted by Gnatsweb when you display a PR. Some have resorted to "View Page Source" in Firefox with copy/paste most of the HTML found there (less buttons at the top of the page, attachments, etc). That's quite a bit of manual effort for a function that seems like it should be there already!


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