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[daniel.oconnor@…]

Scenario:
I'm coverting a business requirements document from management-speak to something developers can handle.

There are a lot of terse, tangled requirements, like "Add a postbox to the front lawn of the house"; which implies that we've built a Lawn, House, put the Lawn at the Front of the House, built a Postbox, and we're now ready to place it.

I only want to ticket one issue, place-the-postbox.

Current workflow:

• Create original meta-ticket (all requirements)
• Flesh out subticket (make a lawn)
• Link to subticket on master ticket
• Link to master ticket on subticket
• Rinse & Repeat (make a house, place lawn infront of house, etc etc)

Proposed:

• A macro/page processor which allows you to defer documenting tickets until later - it creates 'stubs'

IE:

• You do a several "ticket:new" macros on the master ticket
• When you save
  1. new blank tickets are created ("title=To Be Described")
  2. the ticket:new are replaced with the actual ticket number
• Each new ticket has a link back to the master
• All you do now is click through and edit the subtickets

[sid]

#886 addresses the master ticket concept, and although I think your idea is an interesting one, the approach addresses the root problem from the side. #886 seems to address the real problem. I propose closing as a duplicate of that ticket, and I encourage you to join in the discussion on #886.

[daniel.oconnor@…]

Yeah, it's a dupe of http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SubTickets too