Wiki-like editing of tables/spreadsheets to share QA meta-information about packages ?

I’ve been working on archive rebuilds lately (rebuilding all etch packages inside etch). It generates a lot of data to analyze (failed build logs), and the work could easily be split between several developers.

For each package which fails to build, I add a line in a Gnumeric spreadsheet with the package name, the version I tried to build, the output of a script which tries to guess the reason for the failure using regexps, and the “resolution” (was a bug filed ? a new package not yet in testing ?) (example here)

Instead of doing this locally in Gnumeric, I’d like to do that online, using wiki-like editing, so other people could investigate different failures concurrently.

My ideal piece of software would:

  • be efficient to use (something AJAX based would be great)
  • allow for line-based locking, so people can just lock the line they are working on
  • allow for CSV-export/import, so I could fetch the whole data, add new failures using a script, and import it back

Does this exist ? :-)

5 thoughts on “Wiki-like editing of tables/spreadsheets to share QA meta-information about packages ?

  1. I’m planning on writing such a beast, if it doesn’t already exist. Essentially, I’m writing a wiki that has a way of defining database queries, which can then be inserted into pages, and building something AJAXy to allow in-place edits

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