Re: [boost] Copy editing documentation - SOC project

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-15 17:15:23

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:03 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sat Mar 10 2007, Michael Caisse <boost-AT-objectmodelingdesigns.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm just a simple user / lurker at the moment (though I'm hopeful to be 
> > a contributor someday), but if Boost is moving to subversion would 
> > moving to Trac make sense?
> 
> IMO Yes.
> 
> I am currently running several Tracs.  I love the integration of the
> wiki with the bug tracking system and SVN.  I have set up an
> SVN post-commit hook
> (http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/trac-post-commit-hook)
> that lets you resolve and update tickets by writing things like
> 
>      Changed blah and foo to do this or that. Fixes #10 and #12, and refs #12.
> 
> In subversion commit messages, which will close tickets #10 and #12,
> and add the commit message as a note to #12.
> 
> If we had this kind of integration, maybe our bug trackers would get
> more attention than they do currently.

GCC has this kind of integration with their patch manager, patches list,
Subversion repository, and Bugzilla. It works *wonderfully*, because you
can look up a bug in Bugzilla and get a link to the patch that fixes it,
very easily.

  Cheers,
  Doug