From: Wayne Pierce <shalofin@...>
Date: 2005-05-04T03:42:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug Tracker

> It's funny how everyone is trying to talk Andy out of this project.  If
> the CTO wants him to write this thing and even wants him to use
> Ruby/Rails and will allow it to be open sourced - well, it sounds like a
> great opportunity.

I've been looking at the same problem here too.  If I can get BugTrack
working with PostgreSQL I plan to build upon that, the main reason is
that I am planning to build a log analysis package with RoR.  My
current applicaiton is written with Python right now, but I've hit
some design issues and need to re-architect anyway (so this is a good
excuse to switch to RoR).

> It would be great if we had a 'best-of-breed' bug tracking system that just
> happened to be written in Ruby/Rails.  It seems like a great combination
> and it could only help further the reach of both Ruby and Rails.  Yeah
> there are a lot of bug tracking systems out there, but there's always
> room for improvement.

What I eventually plan to make is an "incident response and tracking"
system.  Integrating my existing log analysis code, BugTrack, data
from Snort and some configuration management tools I am writing. 
BugTrack will be helpful as a starting point to the incident/response
portion (once I can figure out Rails).

Wayne