Hi,
 
is it just my impression that Mantis was more feature rich an had better layout? An example: Mantis has "Reported by me".
 
(I understand that new tracker is better wired with version system which is benefit for developers.)  
Thanks, V.

PM Vojtěch Čihák wrote

is it just my impression that Mantis was more feature rich an had better layout?

Agreed.

However, maintaining Mantis (and our svn server) had become a nightmare. Unfortunately the issue tracker of GitLab doesn't offer the functionality we were used to.
But, that ship has sailed.
It is what it is...

Yes, indeed. Though some of it is what you are used to...

About monitoring, you can add "reactions" (emoticons /visible to others, but so was monitoring).
Then you can search "my reaction"

About issues you monitored in Mantis:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,55750.msg415076.html#msg415076

What is new in Gitlab...
* You can mention people, which afaik creates an entry in their todo.
* You can (un)subscribe per issue, to get mails
* As you said, better integration with the repro. Online links between commits and issues.

This is my experience with all „modern“ software, often it’s functionality is reduced. But as Bart said, keeping Mantis up-to-date was a nightmare task as we used customized source code, I think because of strange notification behaviour.

Another problem was the internal notification processing of mantis when you have a "lot" of members.

Instead of using database queries (something which is the key feature of a db) to select the addresses to send mail to, it loaded all members as php object in memory and filters out all addresses based on user preference. This is time consuming, and has a severe impact on memory usage of the server.

Marc

is it just my impression that Mantis was more feature rich an had better layout? An example: Mantis has "Reported by me".

It is my impression too.
I would like to see panels (like in
https://gitlab.com/groups/freepascal.org/-/boards):
- Reported by me (filter Author="my account")
- Assigned to me (filter Asignee="my account")
- Unassigned (filter Asignee=None)
- (Resolved); here is sufficient for me list of recently changed issues as is there already
In other words : is there way how to add custom boards based on above filters?
L.

You can find this in your 'issues' list?

I can create new boards, but not with the filters you want. There is no 'active user' filter. (i.e. "me" or so)

I can create lists filtered on label, assignee or milestone.

I could create a label 'unassigned' to filter on. but then we would need to apply that to all new issues. This can be automated. Then I could use it to add an 'unassigned' list. The label would need to be removed when a user is assigned to an issue. This can probably also be automated.

They are working on a named filter system. When that exists, more things will be possible:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14512

Michael.

See my last mail.
See "My reactions"

Ideally each boards has only filters by the same kind.

Because if you have a board, with lists:
- label = x
- milestone = y

Then you can drag and drop issues between the boards. But drag and drop means to remove/add the label/milestone.

So the current board, with diff milestones is ok. because you can mave issues from one milsestone to another

I've been looking at https://github.com/jdalrymple/gitbeaker

Using pas2js it should be relatively easy to make a small webpage that recreates the mantis view. All it would need is a token or oauth key.

Such a page can be hosted on the FPC webserver. The browser would do all other requests directly to gitlab, so this puts no load on the FPC webserver except of the initial page request.

Michael.

Ok I understand.
If there is no straight forward, simple way then IMO no need to complicate things.
I am here as pure user and I am asking for simple solutions ;-) I only shared impression that GitLab issue tracker is for me also less intuitive and practical compared to Mantis.
(of course I accept others developers arguments related to maintenance cost of GitLab versus Mantis and so on ...)
L.

It's a different system, with different possibilities. I find the filter system very easy to use compared to Mantis, so I won't miss the old one.

One can lament the demise of the old system, but in time I suspect most will adapt to the new one.

As said, I'm looking at creating a frontpage for a mantis-like overview. With pas2js it should be easy to do.

Michael.