[pmwiki-users] PmWiki as requirements management tool?

William Langford unfies at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 13:43:59 CDT 2015


I've been thinking about something like this about once a month.  More 
as a checklist system for projects / things.

Never get very far with the thoughts, though.

include's, page variables, etc should make it all possible.

I'd prolly suggest a couple different versions of the thing though.

A 'simple' one where each project gets it's own group and is fully self 
contained.  Creating a new project is then a matter of copying a 
template group.   The "model" and the "data" are all self contained.  
This lets you customize "widgets" (ie: an 'accounting card') without 
affecting other projects.  This is prolly the easiest to implement.

Then later a more complex one that lets you specify 'common widgets' 
that are prolly their own group (or all exist in a singular separate 
group) that you can include in your project. IE: each type of widget has 
only one 'model' that all projects reference, but you store the 'data' 
independently.  This lets you update a common "widget" (ie: an 
'accounting card') which then auto updates all the projects (then 
requiring more data to be entered).

Hell, I'm sure Fox can be used to make this entire system.

-Will


On 8/26/2015 1:58 AM, Oliver Betz wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> anybody using PmWiki as a requirements management tool?
>
> For example, using wiki pages like snow cards, even with  semantics
> (page variables).
>
> Backlinks can show dependencies at least one level deep.
>
> Maybe one could even implement a recursive method to mark affected
> requirements for review after changing a linking requirement.
>
> It will be difficult to get "base lines". Copy the whole tree to
> another group?
>
> Oliver




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