Add "Caused by" option to bug resolution

[ben@…]

I think it would be great to have some way of tracking the cause of bugs in loose categories, i.e.

"Fixed: #1873. Bug caused by planning errors in the database structure."

Which would resolve the bug and set the "Caused by:" property to "Planning Errors". The types of errors could be configurable via trac-admin, and you could make some great inferences by visualizing the data over time.

You could even pull keywords from the rest of the log, i.e.:

"Closes #1187. Bug caused by planning errors in the database format."
"Fixes #1873. Bug caused by unjustified assumptions about the database foreign key structure."
"Fixes #2853. Bug caused by lack of automation in the database setup."

You've clearly got database problems.

• Ben

[eblot]

This seems a non-general case, and I would recommend to use the 'custom field' feature to implement such a feature.

I don't think this requirement is generic enough to be added to the main trunk.

[mgood]

Generally the solution would be listed in the comments when closing the ticket. If you have some defined categories you can use the TracTicketsCustomFields to add a dropdown field for these. The keywords field is also a place some of this type of information can be put.