First steps toward support of any underlying BTS to track remote bugs (on mantis for a start)

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

FYI, I've hacked the first bits of an extension of bts-link in order to
allow its use over any other BTS (than debbugs) in order to track remote
bugs.

Very few (but debbugs and launchpad) bugtrackers offer a way to provide
a "forwarded-to" like property allowing to track status changes for
remote bugs, but a possibility lies in adding such property in the bug's
comments/notes.

I've tried and describe such a feature in
https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Helios_wp3/Web/ForwardedToInMantisComments and have implemented a first prototype for Mantis.

The same could be done for basically any bugtracker, allowing to use
bts-link for any project wishing to track remote bugs in their preferred
bugtracker.

The changes for bts-link are substential but not completely
revolutionary, and some refactoring will be needed, and I'll probably
publish that in a few days in my git repo. I hope this will help improve
the modularity of bts-link by calibrating even better the classes, APIs
and decomposition in modular elements.

Feel free to ask questions, or wait for the git push ;)

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)