[p4dti-discussion] Filespecs and Issues

[Stephen Vance]

Nick --

Should we consider it a bug in the doco then that the intro to 
section 4 includes the filespecs relation in the list of relations by 
which "you MUST extend the database schema" even though it's listed 
in the optional features in section 3.5? That's what threw me and 
prompted me to ask the question.

Steve

At 05:52 AM 11/11/2005, you wrote:
>At 2005-11-11 10:45:43+0000, Nick Barnes writes:
> > At 2005-11-11 07:03:16+0000, Stephen Vance writes:
> >
> > > Am I missing something? Why are filespecs linked to issues rather
> > > than changelists?
> >
> > In order to specify relations such as "this issue was found on this
> > branch" or "this defect is being fixed on this branch".
>
>Sorry, I hit "Send" too soon.
>
>See the note at the end of section 2.3 of the IG:
>
>     The P4DTI replicates the filespec relation in order to support use
>     cases like "Associate revisions of documents with task" and "Check
>     out copies of revisions of documents associated with task" and to
>     support defect trackers like DevTrack by TechExcel that provide a
>     revision control interface based on associating documents with an
>     issue.  However, because the currently supported defect tracker
>     (Bugzilla) has no such feature, and because alpha and beta testing
>     showed no demand for use cases involving associating documents
>     with tasks, we haven't made any use of this relation (for example,
>     it's not documented in the user's guide).  However, it's there if
>     you need it for integrating with your defect tracker.
>
>This sums it up quite well.  It's cruft, really, and might go away in
>some future release.  In the meantime, if you're developing an
>integration, you can just ignore filespec replication.
>
>Nick B
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