<div dir="ltr"><div>Following up to pt.1</div><div><br></div><div>Another infrastructure improvement besides the wiki mentioned in Pt.1 would be to MantisBT. </div><div><br></div><div>Hands down Mantis is a beast and it gets the job done. From a bug testing POV it would be a blessing if Mantis had more AJAX integration. After doing some digging I found out that there are some up-to-date solutions out there that help improve mantis workflow. Maybe you can agree with me?</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, on github there is a list of MantisBT repositories that have plugins built by the MantisBT users. Address is: <a href="https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins">https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins</a></div>
<br>Some plugins that immediately caught my interest:<br><br><div>__Snippets__ <a href="https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/snippets">https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/snippets</a></div><div>Define snippets of text that can be easily pasted into text fields. This can help speed up bug notations<div>
<br></div>__EmailReporting__ <a href="https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/EmailReporting">https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/EmailReporting</a></div><div>"...allows you to report an issue in Mantis by sending an email to a particular mail account." This could liberate the power-users from being dependant on the Mantis GUI to report a bug (something that in the past has deterred me from reporting) </div>
<br>__Announce__ <a href="https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/announce">https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/announce</a><br>"Lets privileged accounts create and post announcements that can be shown to users on a global or per-project basis, and allow users to dismiss individual messages." Very nice way to communicate with Scribus bug reporters for example asking them: "Have you read <link>How to file a bug report</link> on the wiki before filing ?" <div>
<br>__Search__ <a href="https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/search">https://github.com/mantisbt-plugins/search</a><br>"This plugin can help find issue where text searches in bug text, comments, additional informations" Not exactly clear what this does (I've contacted dev) But perhaps augments the built-in MantisBT search. </div>
<br>__ThePoser__ <a href="http://agavestorm.com/the-poser-for-mantis/">http://agavestorm.com/the-poser-for-mantis/</a><br>"New shiny look for Mantis. Skins, custom company Logo, custom CSS and more."<div>This is by far the most 'blingy' request of them all. I think it would be refreshing to add a more modern look to mantis, something more inviting. Sort of how an interior decorator can change a space by changing a few key things. Making the issue boxes slightly less opaque and introducing a different font would be refreshing change. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Too be continued in Pt.3</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>/Kunda</div></div>