[csw-maintainers] multi-catalog package browser vs mantis

[Peter FELECAN]

Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:

> I can hack around the ID lookup issue to facilitate providing a link
> from the package info to the mantis page but it will be a leaky
> workaround.  Does anyone have thoughts on the best way to address
> this?  We've talked before about mantis' shortcomings and a desire to
> move away from it...volunteers?
>
> The alternate approach is pull all catalog info to a local mysql
> database but that still leaves the mantis problem, so this isn't just
> a methodology issue but a fundamental disconnect between how we're
> using mantis and how we'd like our users to be able to see our catalog
> information.

Can you write a short but complete specification of what we want and use
it as a guide to moving forward? It will help to fix the requirements
and choose and/or create the adequate tools.
-- 
Peter