[Collaboa] goals?

[Waldemar Kornewald]

Tom Clarke wrote:
 > Sounds good to me.

So, you don't think that there are *not enough* fields?
What do you think about renaming Severity -> Priority, Part -> 
Component, Release -> Version, and removing Milestone (plus rename it in 
top menu into Roadmap)? I.e.: version gets contextual meaning (depending 
on type) like I suggested on the wiki page and making the Roadmap depend 
on the Version field (but only count tasks when calculating total 
estimates, not wish and problem/bug items).

 > I can relate a bit of experience on learning rails with collaboa. I
 > started poking around with rails and collaboa on a friday evening, and
 > by sunday night I had submitted my first substantial patch. Rails is
 > really good like that.

 From the tutorials and videos I've seen it really seems like that. 
That's why I want to use a Rails based solution. It is easier to hack 
than with other solutions.

 > Also, one idea I had with regard to notifications is making them
 > objects within the system and only optionally emails, and using that
 > one could have a personalized 'timeline' view that could reflect
 > different subcriptions and also read/unread. I don't know if this is
 > something that would be generally appreciated though.

I think this sounds good. This way you would always see changes to any 
of your subscriptions. That's a good compromise between showing *all* 
changes and only *status* changes. But that should be something for a 
later release because currently Collaboa needs some more usability 
improvements and support for subcomponents.
For example, in the ticket details view all fields should be editable 
directly at the top instead of showing just text and allowing to edit at 
the bottom. If you don't have enough permissions for editing you will 
continue to see non-editable text.

How do you want commits to be sent? As diffs via mail or should I get an 
SVN account?
BTW, why are there so many vendor components in SVN? ActiveRecord, 
ActionMailer, etc.. Are they not part of the default distribution? You 
see, I'm rather new to Rails. ;)

Bye,
Waldemar