[LA-SiGMA-gpu] issue tracker

[Frank Loeffler]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:14:53AM -0500, Juana Moreno wrote:
>      Could you send a short description about this tracker? I have never used one.	

An issue tracker can be seen as a 'database' within which you have items
(issues / bug reports / however you like to call it). These items have
some structure: they have a subject (like in an email) and a longer
description. They can have some meta data attached. Examples are:

- 'component': This is usually used to easily differentiate between
  different sub-projects. I created three for each sub-project of la-sigma.
- 'priority': Can be used to mark some issues as particularly important
  (or not)
- 'type': Can currently be set to 'defect', 'enhancement' or 'task'
- You can add a couple of more fields, but that's a bit too much for
  this email and right now not really important for la-sigma.

All of the above can be easily configured, so let me know if you need
changes.

These items usually have some 'life cycle', and how exactly that happens
depends a lot on what you want. The simplest cycle would be that someone
openes a report, and someone else closes it again when the problem is
fixed. Alternatively the report can be marked as 'invalid', 'wontfix',
'duplicate' or 'worksforme' if this makes sense.

More complicated things are possible, but not really necessary. We
should only spend a minimal time on that system and concentrate on the
code itself. However, the issue tracker is a great tool to

- not forget about things you want to fix, but don't have the time now
- which bugs are reported already (and may already be fixed)

Trac can be configured to send an email every time something changed
(like a new ticket is opened, or an existing is commented on). Usually
this is send to the commit-mailing list of the same project. I don't
think la-sigma has one of these as of now. Would it be a good idea to
create one? People can then subscribe / unsubscribe themselves when they
(don't) want to receive these messages instead of every time asking IT
support to add/remove them from the notifications.

In case you would like to see an example of a 'live' trac installation,
take a look at
   https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/wiki
I couldn't manage the Einstein Toolkit without it.

Frank

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