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diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/body b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57439b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/body @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +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. + diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/values b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/values new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8874446 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/7ec2c071-9630-42b0-b08a-9854616f9144/comments/bb988ed4-d3d5-4e49-b67e-c7ccb8ae44d3/values @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Author: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu> + + +Content-type: text/plain + + +Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:42:12 +0000 + + +In-reply-to: ec133a4e-c9ff-4499-b469-cb0a2ca9a685 + |