Ethereal-dev: Re: Bug trackers (was Re: [Ethereal-dev] Buildbot crash output)

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:26:03 +0200
Gerald Combs wrote:

>Agreed.  It looks like you have to manage "real" users via Apache's
>authentication mechanism, i.e. use "htpasswd" to do adds, moves, and
>changes by hand:
>
>    http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2004-October/000967.html
>
>Unless there's a workaround, this is a show-stopper as far as I'm concerned.
>  
>
Yes, that really is a no go.

>>P.S: Gerald, is there a way to keep the four typical lists separate
>>somehow: Bugs/Support Requests/Patches/Feature Requests and is there a
>>way to move things around, in case a user chose the wrong topic?
>>    
>>
>
>We could add a "Type" field to the database or create four separate
>databases.  All three products support either of these options.
>  
>
I would think that users might quite often use the wrong type of
request, or in the end it shows up to be a different kind, so the type
field might make more sense.

It sounds to me if having different databases makes it difficult to move
tickets from one type to another (that should be possible without admin
rights :-).

Regards, ULFL