Bug driven documentation

By John Davies from London.pm
Date: Saturday, 30 November 2013 09:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: bugzilla

Known bugs as well as reports of bug fixes should appear in a product's documentation. This information is held in the bugs database in projects that use one. My code enables it to be be extracted and processed with any POD parser. Canonicality suggests that documentation should not come from multiple sites. My system means the bugs database can be used for all documentation. Bugzilla is written in Perl and my code includes a patch to allow fields to be edited (essential as documentation changes but not allowed in standard Bugzilla).