Bugzilla as a task management tool

[Myk Melez]

Christopher Hicks wrote:

>Bugzilla is really close to being very good as a task management tool, 
>project management tool, and a technical support ticket system.  It's 
>being used as such by many folks.  What's missing?
>
>- the idea of bugs within bugs.  While bugzilla's bug dependancies can be 
>used to simulate tasks and subtasks it would often make more intuitive 
>sense to have tasks within a bug that can be added and completed.
>
>- I use bugzilla for my personal todo list.  The aforementioned 
>functionality would make that process much easier.  Being able to print 
>out a list of bugs prioritized and showing the open tasks associated with 
>each would be phenomenal.
>
>- Tasks within a bug could be tracked in the database as if they were 
>bugs, but have a flag that indicates they're a task instead of a bug.
>
Instead of modifying the database schema, use dependencies (i.e. bugs 
dependent on a parent are subtasks, other bugs are tasks).  Then, hack 
the UI (and Perl code when necessary) to provide a subtask 
creation/deletion interface inside "show bug", and hack the dependency 
tree to give you your prioritized list of tasks with subtasks.  You 
don't need database modifications to do this; you just need to optimize 
the UI for your particular application.

-myk