This is Bugs Everywhere (BE), a bugtracker built on distributed version control. It works with Bazaar, Darcs, Git and Mercurial at the moment, but is easily extendable. It can also function with no VCS 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.
BE is available as a Git repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/kalkin/be.git be
See the documentation for details. If you clone the Git 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 INSTALL_OPTIONS
variable in Makefile
to install to another
location.
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
.
If be help
isn't scratching your itch, the full documentation is
available in the doc directory as reStructuredText . You can build
the full documentation with Sphinx , convert single files with
docutils , or browse through the doc directory by hand.
doc/index.txt
is a good place to start. If you do use Sphinx,
you'll need to install numpydoc for automatically generating API
documentation. See the ``NumPy/SciPy documentation guide``_ for an
introduction to the syntax.