Re: [Fab-user] OT: if you guys are looking for an issue tracker, maybe consider pitz

[Matthew Wilson]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Jeff Forcier<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I'm aware of pitz -- actually forked it a while back, though I never
> pushed any of my tweaks upstream since it didn't end up going
> anywhere. I did notice you've done a decent amount of work since then
> but haven't checked back in yet to see where it's at.
>
> Has it grown a command-line tool or a Web interface (read or
> read/write) yet? Aside from just being academically curious, those are
> things that I would need if I ever decided to use pitz for Fabric.

Lots of read operations are possible from the command-line.  No write
operations are possible yet.  I'm working on them.

$ pitz-everything a=1 b=[2,3] will return all the entities where a is
1 and b is 2 or 3.
$ pitz-todo # this is equivalent to pitz-everything type=task
status=[unstarted, started]

Now web interface is running yet.  It is possible to generate static
HTML pages, but they are boring and ugly.  Frankly, pitz is NOT
finished.

> However, it's probably moot; I've done a lot of work on customizing
> Redmine, a Rails-based Trac-a-like, including growing Git branch
> support, which was the main blocker for that tool when I last examined
> it. I plan to deploy that forked version for use on Fabric sometime in
> the next few weeks, once it gets pounded on a bit more by my
> co-workers :)

I used redmine for about 9 months and it is great.  It is a very
polished tool.  I love all the javascript UI tweaks like the
right-click menus.  I only had a few issues, that may not apply to
you:

1. It wasn't obvious how to me how to link an issue to a particular
branch in my SCM.

2. Obviously, you need a working Internet connection.  I do a fair
amount of work on a slow, unreliable, wireless connection.

3. I wanted to work with my issues from the command-line. Adding an
issue just felt like more work than it absolutely had to be.  I had to
start my browser, log in, fill out forms, etc.  I wanted to make an
issue as quickly as I can start writing code.

> Regardless, best of luck with pitz, I think it fills or is capable of
> filling a very useful niche and hope you can continue doing good work
> on it!

Thanks!

> Best,
> Jeff


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