I've talked before about my thoughts on severity and priority in issue tracking systems.
Things seem to be working well so far in how I've customised Roundup for Leonardo.
One thing that is still missing, however, is the ability for me to do queries like "show me all the bugs in 0.6b1 that have now been fixed". This is helpful for generating release notes. A simple list of "all the bugs that have been fixed in this release" isn't sufficient because it tends to include a lot of bugs that were only introduced during development of that release (e.g. bugs in new features).
So a simple "what build was this bug found in?" field is not what I want (although that's still useful, it doesn't solve the problem at hand). What I want is a field that lists which releases were shipped with the particular bug.
I think for most projects, it doesn't need to be a comprehensive list; really it just needs to be whether the bug existed in the last major release and the last minor release.
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In preparation for my PhD, I recently started investigating Mac OS X tools for managing BibTeX-based bibliographies.
In the end I settled on BibDesk. I chose it because of its functional merits but it's great that it also turns out to be open source.
Because BibDesk allows me to link from an entry to a file on my local filesystem, I can just put all my PDFs in one directory and use BibDesk as the interface to all the papers.
One thing that I don't believe is supported (yet) but which I would like to use as work on my literature review continues is the ability to express relationships between entries, perhaps along the lines I talked about in Google Scholar and Typed Citations.
Of course, then I'd like to express relationships between other entities such as authors and maybe concepts, terminology, etc.
Actually, a lot of the features I'd like to see in BibDesk are features I'd like to see in any MicroContent browser. After all, that's what BibDesk really is.
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Via Bob Congdon, found an online puzzle of a very different type than the Python Challenge.
Check out Hapland. Very clever and a lot of fun.
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