On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > At least with Git fast-export, it’s becoming something of a lingua > franca. What is the lingua franca of issue tracking?
Actually, I think it's "spread sheets". In the company I work for, it's customers and it's suppliers, when we meet with "project managers" about the status of issues, the PMs are presenting from their spread sheets and updating them as we disuss the issues. Fossil already has a way to "export" in a "flat file" format: "fossil ticket show". It's basically TAB separated values. The fields shown are driven by selecting a report that has been defined via the Fossil GUI. Would be nice if there was a "fossil ticket export" command that would produce a "proper" CSV file. While "proper" is still something of a debate, most spread sheet apps (Excel, LibreCalc, GnomeCalc, etc) seem to adequately digest CSV files where fields that contain comas or newlines are enclosed in double quotes, with any contained double quote escaped (I think by doubling - ie. like "has ""quote"" inside"). Then, of course, a corresponding "fossil ticket import" command.
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