On 26-Apr-07, at 11:29 PM, Shawn Hill wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Our company has been using Mantis for some time and we are updating > our internal processes and we have a perfect opportunity to get > more out of Mantis. I have a couple of questions which I would > like your input to please... > > 1. Categories > Do these have any significant meaning in Mantis? I see they are > reported on in the Summary pages. Are categories specifically used > for functional areas of development, e.g. Installer, GUI, Database > etc or can they be used for bug identifiers such as 'Beta Blocker', > 'Alpha Bug' etc. or is this not recommended
Bugs in different categories can be automatically assigned to an individual user (otherwise, they are left unassigned. I've used categories as you describe for projects, where all of the staff working on the project are on the project team. If you need to separate access for the individual elements (e.g., coders can't see documentation bugs), upi may want to use separate projects, or sub- projects. > > 2. Feature Development > Mantis is a bug tracker. Features aren't bugs. Is there a > specific, recommended way to deal with new features in Mantis, such > as the use of a category 'Feature'? There is a severity called "feature". > > 3. Documentation - workflow > Does anyone use mantis to track bugs in documentation. In the > example above if we have a new feature, there should be > documentation to support it. I would like to work off mantis for > the documentation, but I am not sure just yet, as to how to > smoothly insert the documentation into the workflow. Could this be > a status between resolved and closed? e.g. > New Bug Feature->Acknowledged->Assigned->Coded->Resolved- > >Documented->Closed You can now have separate workflow on a per project basis. This may affect the choice of categories or projects. The only issue you may have with this workflow would be the handoff between users (coder vs writer). > > If anyone has anything to add on the above, comments, suggestions I > would be grateful - no seriously I will. In fact so grateful I'll > become a serious contributor to mantis somehow. (currently picking > up testlink and am contributing there some now!). Besides...it's > only fair! > Any help would be welcome. -- Glenn Henshaw Logical Outcome Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.logicaloutcome.ca Mantis Developer and User ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ mantisbt-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mantisbt-help
