This approach
not only brings the obvious task management benefits, but is also less likely to
introduce more bugs if we keep our changes in focus.
Is There Any Difference?
The short answer is no. Besides the obvious difference in how features requests and
bugs are initially reported, the only other significant difference is that features are
generally new code while bugs almost exclusively deal with existing code.
A Common Sequence
As we have just seen, our two sequences are actually quite similar. Both require
something to be reported??”either a feature request or a bug, which in Trac
terminology are an enhancement and a defect respectively. However both are types
of ticket, and tickets equate to tasks, which is what we are aiming to manage.
Tasks and tasks
When we first looked at tickets in Chapter 5, we saw that defect,
enhancement, and task were default ticket types. We also use the
term task in relation to project management. Fortunately we can safely
avoid confusing the two??”we will not be using the task ticket type in
this chapter.
Once we have our ticket and we have decided that this is something we are going
to tackle, then we move on to the execution of that task, and finally mark the task as
complete by resolving the ticket.
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