Re: Feature request: beeter issue tracker integration in history dialog

On 01.06.2013 17:30, Friedrich Brunzema wrote:
>> It would be great to add the ability to use issue tracker
>> integration plugins in history dialog. For example, this can be
>> used to display issue information such as full title, status and
>> the person, responsible for on hover on the issue's number.
>
> What if just hovering on the link to get information proves
> impractical to implement - what would then be your next preferred use
> case? Just assume your desired functionality is already in Tortoise
> and explain how things would work step by step with sufficient
> detail. What bug/issue tracking system do you use? Does your issue
> tracking system have the capability of displaying your issue by
> Shell-Executing a URL?
>
> In my company we use the Atlassian Jira tracking system; issues are
> in the format CL-3423 (two capital letters indicating a JIRA project,
> followed by a dash, followed by a bunch of digits(issue number). We
> have multiple projects, although people tend to work in a single one.
> A regular expression could be used find this issue-number text, one
> could then create a hyperlink such as
> http://myissuetracker.com/browse/CL-3423?jql=. To implement this in
> a somewhat generic way, one would need at least two configuration
> items, the regular expression to find the issue, as well as the URL
> to the issue tracker with a tag indicating where to substitute the
> issue number.
>
> Use Case 1 (Searching) -------- 1. User brings up Log Dialog 2. User
> types an search term containing text previously configured to
> indicate that this is an issue tracker link. User possibly uses a
> special search syntax, such as issue:CL-3423 3. The system searches
> and highlights (hyperlinks) found issues in the middle window which
> shows check-in comments. System has transformed any matched issue
> text into a hyperlink(s). 4. User clicks on a hyperlink. 5. Browser
> opens the issue in the issue tracking system. User may have to
> log-in to the issue tracker before being able to see the issue.
> -------
>
> Use Case 2 (Configuring) ... (need to define this) ...
>
> Would you be willing to help implement something like this? If you
> can't code, do you know of someone who can and would help, or are you
> able to help in other ways (beta testing, writing documentation etc).
> But before even thinking about the implementation, we need consensus
> on what a good use case is.

Ahem:
* Show log for the TSVN working copy root.
* browse to revision 24233
* hover the mouse pointer over the blue, underlined '477'
* notice the tooltip
* click

Stefan

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