[development] forking issue tracking development

[Derek Wright]

On Dec 17, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Michael Favia wrote:

>> I have been developing this in parallel to casetracker and I  
>> haven't put
>> it in /modules because I would like one day to see it included in
>> casetracker. I am not a maintainer of casetracker, so obviously  
>> it's not
>> me making the decision, so I'm happy to cruise for a while and
>> developing this in my sandbox really makes sense to me.
>
> Perhaps there is some value to the argument to clean up the  
> sandboxes a
> little because i was busy writing a module that duplicates this
> functionality nearly exactly. This Plus the ability to organize your
> cases into order you plan on working on them. Thank you for pointing
> this out.

*sigh*

so, we've got:

- project_issue.module
- casetracker.module (official)
- casetracker_work.module (sandbox - sime)
- casetracker_fork_2.module (??? - michael favia)
- CCK-based project/issue tracking (http://groups.drupal.org/node/409)
- helpdesk (pre-alpha, i think)
- ...

absolutely *none* of these is actually full-featured and does what we  
want.  i've been working hard making project_issue.module better, and  
morbus has been beating casetracker (official) into submission (IMHO,  
a tragic fork of resources right there).  yes, choices are good.   
yes, 1 giant module that does everything won't make everyone happy.   
however...


<desperate plea>

instead of forking our limited development resources in this crucial  
space, can't we collaborate more?  all the things you hate about  
project_issue (and i'm sure there are many), let's just fix them so  
it works how we all need, instead of starting over from scratch for  
the (N+1)th time...

pretty, pretty please: join the issue tracking group:
http://groups.drupal.org/issue-tracking-and-software-releases

collaborate, don't fork...

</desperate plea>


thanks,
-derek