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Am 18.01.2013 01:14, schrieb W. Trevor King:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:02:01AM +0100, Gerhard Killesreiter
> wrote:
>> Has the possibily to create a bridge between BE and other bug
>> trackers been considered? I am thinking of redmine, mantis,
>> github, ...
>> 
>> Ie, I could download and commit the bugs for my project using BE,
>> go offline, work, and sync everything when I have a connection
>> again?
>> 
>> Feasible or crazy?
> 
> You might want to look at Niall's BEXML [1], although I think he's 
> been busy on other things for the past few months.

It seems to only do pull in its current state. I would want to have
push too.

> As far as support in the BE trunk, the difficulty will probably be
> in mapping abstractions between the various external trackers and
> BE's internal view of what constitutes a bug.

I agree, I notice for exammple that "be show --xml" does not show bug
history for status changes. How extensible is BE in this regard?
Could I for example rename the severity tag-names? or status tag names?

> If you're only interested in having a private offline store of an
> online bugtracker, your BE-side representation is not really
> important, and it shouldn't be too difficult to do.  If you want
> something that you could commit to your repository as more
> BE-native, it will probably be more difficult.

more difficult but also more worthwhile. In the other case I could
simply save html dumps.

Cheers,
Gerhard

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