Consolidated outstanding bugs.

Only one live bug left:
  7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144

I've decided (mostly due to the huge Trac post, see bug comments) to
_not_ hardcode dependencies, but to add an attribute-creation
mechanism that a becommand/depend.py could use for dependency
tracking.  Time for a new branch to think this out...

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+Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:59:15 +0000
 
 
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+This could be implemented with an external frontend storing the
+dependency data in arbitrary tags.
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:13 +0000
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+
+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:33 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+
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+creator: abentley
 
 
+severity: minor
 
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+summary: Indicate bug dependencies
 
 
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+In my Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:30:19 -0500 email: 
+
+Implemented as a free-form value field similar to target?  A
+comma-seperated list of tags?  Perhaps once we have per-bug/comment
+attribute searching it would be easier to have a 'create-attribute'
+becommand, e.g.
+  be create-attribute [-valid=X,Y,Z] [bugdir|bug|comment] [NAME] [DEFAULT]
+
+We could ship some suggested configuration scripts to set people up,
+and keep the core code more general/flexible.
+
+
+Plan:
+
+Extend and make more consitent the settings_property() attributes.
+Create becommand/(create/remove)-attribute for logic-less attributes.
+Create a few mix-ins for logic-ed attributes
+
+Usage example:
+  Goal:
+    set up for `be depends BUGA BUGB`, `be depends --tree BUGA`, etc
+  Procedure:
+    be set --apend mixins bug:dependency
+  Where we've defined
+    becommands/depends.py, but it is hidden until the mixin is activated
+    libbe/mixins/bug/dependency.Mixin (inheriting from BugMixin)
+      to
+        parse/generate comma seperated dependency uuids for saving/loading
+        pretty-print the dependency list (e.g. uuid->shortname)
+        walk the dependency tree and check target bug status.
+
+With more complicated mixins, there could be inter-mixin dependencies,
+e.g. a dependency tracker that searches depends based on bug.status
+might depend on the base dependency mixin.  This way people who need
+it could make rich interfaces without confusing the people who don't.
+
+How does that sound?
+
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:39:39 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+
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+It's tricky to say whether we should have dependencies or reverse dependencies
+or both.
+
+In the case where a bug is removed, normal dependencies mean that its
+dependencies are erased from this system.
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+Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:59:15 +0000
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+From: abentley
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+In-reply-to: f87fd684-6af1-498d-98d5-f915bcee76a9
+
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+From my Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:27:12 -0500 email:
+
+> >> 7ec:om: Arbitrary tags
+> >> Sensible
+> >
+> > Implemented as a free-form value field similar to target?  A
+> > comma-seperated list of tags?
+>
+
+That is a much better format than my unmergable one ;).
+
+> "append" usually has two "p"s.  Is the omission deliberate?
+
+Nope, sorry :p
+
+> It sounds pretty complicated.  I would probably use a type system rather
+> than "mixins", and define types as "scalar", "set" and maybe "list" and
+> "map".  Dependencies would be a set, and their special behaviour would
+> be hardcoded according to their name, not a property of their type.
+
+Ok.  I'm just worried about bloat.  It's pretty easy to move things
+around at the moment, but I'm worried that adding lots of attributes
+with special code will start a slippery slope of trying to satisfy
+everybody internally.  Then things start looking more like Arch, with
+newbies scared off by the confusion.  I know the Arch people like the
+power, but it took me several hours to figure out how to create a
+repository ;).  Some people like bug dependencies, and some do not
+  e.g.
+    https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/95419
+    http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/31
+
+From the *long* Trac post, you can see that this is divisive issue.
+
+I would be in favor of emulating TracCrossReferences
+(http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracCrossReferences) in our core.  We
+could have references and backlinks fields for bugs (and comments?).
+But I'd rather not add blocking, etc.  However, having a seperate
+plugin obviously doesn't work for some people ;).  We'd like to bundle
+lots of functionality, but keep the core fairly clean and flexible.
+
+Therefore, I'd like a way to put non-core implememtation code in a
+seperate submod.  We already call our libbe code "plugins", and we're
+extending the builtin BugDir, Bug, etc code, so I thought we'd call
+the non-core submods mixins (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixin).
+
+Anyhow, just my 2c.
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:42:12 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
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+In-reply-to: ec133a4e-c9ff-4499-b469-cb0a2ca9a685
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+This could be implemented with an external frontend storing the
+dependency data in arbitrary tags.
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:13 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
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+
+In-reply-to: f87fd684-6af1-498d-98d5-f915bcee76a9
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+In Aaron's Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:32:29 -0500 email:
+
+>> 7ec:om: Arbitrary tags
+>> Sensible
+>
+> Implemented as a free-form value field similar to target?  A
+> comma-seperated list of tags?
+
+I believe I planned to store it as an alpha-sorted, one-entry-per-line
+list, so it would support merging easily.
+
+>  Perhaps once we have per-bug/comment
+> attribute searching it would be easier to have a 'create-attribute'
+> becommand, e.g.
+>   be create-attribute [-valid=X,Y,Z] [bugdir|bug|comment] [NAME] [DEFAULT]
+
+Well, it really depends how much semantics you want to embed in the data
+format.  Some values are scalars, some may be sets (i.e. tags), some may
+be ordered lists or even mappings.  How much you want to reflect that in
+the data format is up to you.
+
+> Extend and make more consitent the settings_property() attributes.
+> Create becommand/(create/remove)-attribute for logic-less attributes.
+> Create a few mix-ins for logic-ed attributes
+
+I don't find the term mix-in very intuitive here.
+
+> Usage example:
+>   Goal:
+>     set up for `be depends BUGA BUGB`, `be depends --tree BUGA`, etc
+>   Procedure:
+>     be set --apend mixins bug:dependency
+
+"append" usually has two "p"s.  Is the omission deliberate?
+
+>   Where we've defined
+>     becommands/depends.py, but it is hidden until the mixin is activated
+>     libbe/mixins/bug/dependency.Mixin (inheriting from BugMixin)
+>       to
+>       parse/generate comma seperated dependency uuids for saving/loading
+>       pretty-print the dependency list (e.g. uuid->shortname)
+>       walk the dependency tree and check target bug status.
+>
+> With more complicated mixins, there could be inter-mixin dependencies,
+> e.g. a dependency tracker that searches depends based on bug.status
+> might depend on the base dependency mixin.  This way people who need
+> it could make rich interfaces without confusing the people who don't.
+>
+> How does that sound?
+
+It sounds pretty complicated.  I would probably use a type system rather
+than "mixins", and define types as "scalar", "set" and maybe "list" and
+"map".  Dependencies would be a set, and their special behaviour would
+be hardcoded according to their name, not a property of their type.
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:40:54 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+
+
+In-reply-to: 401950a0-a5ff-46f3-afac-a9cfb300f94b
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:29:32 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
+
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+severity: minor
 
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+No need for RCS-expansion for the history.  If the user is versioning
+their code with some RCS, they presumably know how to use the RCS to
+investigate the history already.  The .be/ directory structure is not
+so complicated that it's worth much work to avoid their having to peer
+inside it by hand.
+
+In rare cases where people really do want to peer into history using
+only BE or sort by e.g. bug closing time, they could add those
+comments by hand, e.g.
+  $ echo 'bug closed' | be comment <bug> -
+  $ be close <bug>
+So the already-implemented cmp_last_modified would handle it.
+
+If you want, you could add (optional) comment-generation to the
+becommands themselves.  For example becommand/merge.py already does
+this.
+
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+Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:12:00 +0000
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+From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
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+In-reply-to: d81d0df9-e6d9-4fe8-8dbe-989ef2c81f00
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diff --git a/.be/bugs/9ce2f015-8ea0-43a5-a03d-fc36f6d202fe/values b/.be/bugs/9ce2f015-8ea0-43a5-a03d-fc36f6d202fe/values
index a4d67fd..f124ccb 100644
--- a/.be/bugs/9ce2f015-8ea0-43a5-a03d-fc36f6d202fe/values
+++ b/.be/bugs/9ce2f015-8ea0-43a5-a03d-fc36f6d202fe/values
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ creator: abentley
 severity: minor
 
 
-status: open
+status: closed
 
 
 summary: Add last-modified field to bugs