Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:03:12 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 13:48:16 GMT Content-length: 2095 Gnats for Paradise

Gnats for Paradise

This document tells you what you need to know to use gnats for reporting Paradise bugs.

Where it is

Gnats is installed in afs under /p/paradise/gnats. That means that everyone has access to the paradise gnats database where the problem records are kept.

There are 3 things you can do with gnats: report problems, query the problem database, and edit problems. Gnats provides command line tools for all of these things.

Reporting Problems

Problems are reported using the send-pr program . If you run /p/paradise/gnats/bin/send-pr, you will find yourself in the vi editor with a problem report template. You can edit the template, and then do a "write-quit" to send the report to gnats.

NOTE:You can try out the system by reporting a problem within the test category.

Querying the Problem Database

You can query the problem database using the query-pr program.

Using WebGnats

WebGnats is a Web based interface to the gnats reporting and query programs. You can do most everything you need to, through the WebGnats interface.

Problem reporting in web gnats is handled through an html form. Each problem category can have its own form. This allows different questions to be posed for bug reports concerning different parts of the system.

In order to edit problems, you'll need to be running WebGnats from a workstation with AFS access, and you'll need to have the following in your .mailcap file.


x-application/problem_edit; /p/paradise/gnats/bin/problem_edit %s

Emacs

You can use gnats from within emacs by loading the gnats emacs interfaces. The files are located in /p/paradise/gnats/lib/emacs/lisp. Look at the file gnats.el in that directory for configuration instructions.


Curt Ellmann
Paradise Project