> Feature : A way to add a numerical field that can be managed in bulk.
> This field will be our priority for about 300 tickets. (It will
> basically order the list).

So Steffen tried to help you with a technical solution to the
problem... but I think you might have a different problem entirely.

Why exactly do you need to have a priority for all 300+ tickets? As
Steffen mentioned in his thoughts about a technical solution related
to the large number of ticket change updates, the fact that there
would be this huge number of updates (lets say I insert a ticket at
slot 150... I now have to update all of the tickets after it...). The
fact that horrible and ugly things like this are happening makes me
suspect there's probably an issue with the process that your using.

If you need finer grained management of the tickets... why not make
use of Trac's existing grouping capabilities? You can group tickets in
a variety of ways using Milestones, Components, Priorities, Severities
to achieve an extremely fine grain classification of your tickets. And
if this is for a software development project... are you really
working through 300+ tickets in such a short period of time and with
enough developers that keeping order across the ticket pool is even
necessary?

Investing the time to develop a custom Trac plug-in is a
liability[1,2]... maybe a change to your processes could be made that
would save you the trouble since what you're currently proposing
sounds overly complex to me.

Ben
[1] http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
[2] http://teddziuba.com/2010/12/the-3-basic-tools-of-systems-engineering.html

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