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Why do we want to consolidate issue trackers and kanban boards using gemini+git? Several reasons:
Now the last one may be the most important. Currently anyone can post on github issue trackers and you get issues like
Where someone posts who has clearly not bothered read the manual (sorry). Or from another project I am involved in as a maintainer:
or from the same person
where someone is rude and lacks obvious knowledge about the free software effort (not so sorry about exposing this one --- luckily this concerns a small minority). One glaring problem is that github does not allow removing these controversial tracks. The problem with service providers, such as Microsoft owned github, is that you are bound by *their* rules.
With our new gemini tracker we own the issue reporting space. People can submit a request to report an issue and we can decide whether it belongs there or not. Takes a little more effort on the submitter too! But not too much - you have to know git or edit, fork or clone in github. The downside may be that some normal users feel they need to do too much. In that case one can always send an E-mail to the mailing list instead - or we create a web form that does that. In the next step we can file E-mails as issues ourselves.
Key point is that the issue tracker is meant to track issues owned by the project.
I added a first issue here:
https://github.com/genenetwork/gn-gemtext-threads/blob/main/issues/database-not-responding.gmi
We leverage git to pull out dates and people contributions (pjotrp wrote ...) for display in a document/web page. This page is generated:
To create the tracker we add tags:
Which we can use to generate lists of links.
Make sense?
For the kanban board we can simply use the keywords. Override/add with a separate
Keywords are fairly flexible, but common ones are
the keyword statement may have aliases, such as tag and kanban. To undo a keyword simply remove them from the file.
Can't think of anything more to add to make it really useful :)
Git can do all of that. A viewer may benefit from serial git information, therefore it is recommended to add information at the end of the file. Though, unlike other issue trackers, this is not obligatory. One can insert notes using the '>' prefix
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Or one can simply use git blame to figure out who did what.
Moving an issue file will disconnect the git record. Therefore simple add