Mantis State Plugin
For the longest time now I’ve wanted a view in Mantis that could show me, at a glance, what’s receiving attention and what’s falling through the cracks.
Vincent Debout has recently released an excellent plugin manager for Mantis; so I’ve attempted to whip something up. The Mantis State plugin contains a matrix view listing out issues in left-to-right, top-to-bottom in order of last update. Font size indicates priority. Blinking issues are severe.
Right now this probably works well for smaller projects, but could get difficult to view with a large number of issues. Would be nice if Mantis’ current filtering system could plug into this.
You can see from this sample view that one of our projects has a number of items reported sometime back that are not getting looked at. Oops.
If you’d like to test it out, feel free to download an early alpha version here: Mantis State
Includes some simple Japanese localization.
Update: Recieved a request last week to update the broken uninstaller. Link above updated as of September 2008.
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October 25th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
hello,
can you point me to some documentation which would help me start with developing a mantis plugin?
thanks!
October 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
The best (and really the only) information is on Vincent’s site: http://deboutv.free.fr/mantis/. I recommend downloading some of the existing plugins and using those as templates. The Hierarchy plugin is fairly straightforward; in fact, that’s what the Mantis State plugin was based on.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
This is an interesting plugin, but there’s a new, and official plugin system for the upcoming Mantis 1.2 – perhaps you’d be interested in porting your plugin to the new framework?
June 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Definitely. When’s 1.2 due out?