Bugs Everywhere
===============

This is Bugs Everywhere (BE), a bugtracker built on distributed revision
control.  It works with Arch, Bazaar, Darcs, Git, and Mercurial at the
moment, but is easily extensible.  It can also function with no RCS at
all.

The idea is to package the bug information with the source code, so that
bugs can be marked "fixed" in the branches that fix them.  So, instead of
numbers, bugs have globally unique ids.

Getting BE
==========

BE is available as a bzr repository::

    $ bzr branch http://bzr.bugseverywhere.org/be

See the homepage_ for details.  If you do branch the bzr repo, you'll
need to run::

    $ make

to build some auto-generated files (e.g. ``libbe/_version.py``), and::

    $ make install

to install BE.  By default BE will install into your home directory,
but you can tweak the ``PREFIX`` variable in ``Makefile`` to install
to another location.

.. _homepage: http://bugseverywhere.org/


Getting started
===============

To get started, you must set the bugtracker root.  Typically, you will want to
set the bug root to your project root, so that Bugs Everywhere works in any
part of your project tree.
$ be init -r $PROJECT_ROOT

To create bugs, use ``be new $DESCRIPTION``.  To comment on bugs, you
can can use ``be comment $BUG_ID``.  To close a bug, use
``be close $BUG_ID`` or ``be status $BUG_ID fixed``.  For more
commands, see ``be help``.  You can also look at the usage examples in
``test_usage.sh``.

Documentation
=============

If ``be help`` isn't scratching your itch, there's also

* doc/tutorial        (a gentle introduction to BE)
* doc/distributed_bugtracking  (notes on distributed workflows)
* doc/spam            (notes on removing spam entries from VCSs)
* doc/README.dev      (a guide to hacking BE)

The documentation is marked up in reStructuredText_, so you can use
the docutils_ to convert it to other formats if you desire.

.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
.. _docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/