[Nix-dev] An interview to the fossil creator about fossil

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Saturday 07 August 2010 21:46:33 Michael Raskin wrote:
> On 08/07/2010 10:06 PM, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> > For more complex cases, and especially distributed cases, I'm pretty sure
> > 
> > there will be issues like:
> >  - people filing bug reports against your branch/fork, which actually
> >  belong to
> > 
> > the project as whole or your branch-specific bug reports spilling into
> > the main project.
> > 
> >  - misplaced wiki edits along the same lines
> > 
> > Not that it can't be worked out but at least the gui to resolve this is
> > missing(that's what the site says)...
> 
> I guess "use a tool for its job" may give a natural solution: something
> like BugsEverywhere (although BE claims to have very work-in-progress
> web interface) that stores tickets in the branch itself (support for
> Monotone, Darcs, Mercurial, Bazaar, Git, Arch) - bonus points for branch
> merge automatically merging tickets.

If there was an UI, it would be a really good idea to move to it as soon as we 
move to a DVCS.

Also it's sad that there doesn't seem to be a distributed wiki although maybe 
some git-based wiki could be patched to only look into a certain dir in the 
repo... ikiwiki maybe? After all the easiest thing is to put wiki into wiki 
dir and consider it done.

So missing things are: ui for distributed bugtracker, "distributed" links 
between projects, bugs, wikis and commits...

-- 
Evgeny