Over the week­end, I intro­duced a plu­gin for the Man­tis bug track­ing sys­tem that enforeced a “fixed-in” ver­sion when resolv­ing an issue as fixed.  If you missed it, you can visit the Force­FixedIn project page or the related blog post.

Today, I would like to add another Mantis-related plu­gin to my list of projects.  This one, called Tag­Col­umn, lets users add a “Tags” col­umn to the View Issues screen.  Tag­ging is a great fea­ture that was added to Man­tis a while back, but has always felt a lit­tle half-baked and not quite ready for prime time.  When you are look­ing at an issue, you can view and mod­ify tags.  When you click on a tag, you can see a list of issues that have that tag.  Unfor­tu­nately, there is not a good way to show a list of all issues and their assigned tags (if any).  That is what this plu­gin tries to fix.  Instead of hid­ing Tags away as an afterthought-feature, it dis­plays them front-and-center on the main bug list.

More infor­ma­tion is avail­able at the project page: http://netninja.com/projects/tagcolumn/

If you liked this post, you may also enjoy:

1. Forc­ing a fixed-in ver­sion with the Man­tis bug tracker
2. LJProxy: From friend-locked Live­Jour­nal posts to Google Reader
3. Apol­ogy for dumbassery
4. Tag­ging the 2001 archives
5. Pho­to­blog­gery

Tagged as: column, columns, mantis, mantisbt, tags, viewissues