<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">What Marcus said ++ ;)<br><br>I don't think it's a crazy idea, but having workflow both ways would be so much more useful.<br><br>Paddy<br><div> </div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pádraic Brady<br><br></span></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="3"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://blog.astrumfutura.com">http://blog.astrumfutura.com</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.patternsforphp.com">http://www.patternsforphp.com</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.openideurope.eu/">OpenID Europe Foundation</a><br></font></span></span><div style="font-family:
times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Marcus Ahnve <marcus@ahnve.com><br>To: rspec-users <rspec-users@rubyforge.org><br>Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:45:46 AM<br>Subject: Re: [rspec-users] plain text stories: motivation number 27<br><br>
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:41:27AM -0500, David Chelimsky wrote:<br>> This is mostly theoretical, but ...<br>> <br>> I'm starting to use lighthouse (<a href="http://llighthouseapp.com" target="_blank">http://llighthouseapp.com</a>) for my<br>> projects at work. I'm organizing iterations as milestones and stories<br>> as tickets tagged to a milestone.<br>> <br>> Lighthouse offers an API so that you can write access the data in
your<br>> account and write apps to process that data.<br>> <br>> I think you see where this is going.<br>> <br>> It seems to me that a plain text story could be stored in a
lighthouse<br>> ticket, read in via the lighthouse API ... AND EXECUTED BY STORY<br>> RUNNER.<br>> <br>> Call me crazy :)<br>> <br>> Sure, this is theoretical in terms of lighthouse - but it reveals an<br>> important benefit of plain text stories: it would be possible to<br>> express stories in any of a variety of systems and have them consumed<br>> by an adapter that feeds them in to story runner.<br>> <br>> Thoughts?<br><br>I think it will be really useful if you start changing issue status<br>based on the outcome of the run stories. My main beef with issue<br>trackers has always been just that, that users click a box to say that<br>something is done instead of it being handled automatically. <br><br>/Marcus<br>-- <br>Marcus Ahnve<br>Blog: <a href="http://marcus.ahnve.net" target="_blank">http://marcus.ahnve.net</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>rspec-users mailing list<br><a
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