Question

My problem looks very similar to the one reported in HowToEditBugsContribItems -- I can comment on existing bug reports, but I cannot see, let alone alter, any "metadata" (Status, Priority etc.). I.e, all I see when looking at a bug report are the comments so far plus the comment box.

However, in my case it's not an issue with permissions. All necessary files and directories can be read and written by the web server user.

When (at last!) I decided to check the logs, I found that the following four lines were written to the warn200807.txt log file each time I accessed a bug report:

| 29 Jul 2008 - 12:54 | Max recursive depth reached: %CLASS%
| 29 Jul 2008 - 12:54 | Max recursive depth reached: %CLASS%
| 29 Jul 2008 - 12:54 | Max recursive depth reached: %PRIORITY%
| 29 Jul 2008 - 12:54 | Max recursive depth reached: %PRIORITY%

So these two variables seem to be referenced, but never assigned anything. What can I do about this?

Environment

-- UweSinha - 29 Jul 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

it is possible that the BugsContrib currently contains non 4.0.5 compatible stuff :/ I'd suggest upgrading to 4.2.1 in a few days when its released

If you're on 4.0.5 because you're using the debian package, you can either upgrade to the 4.1.2 package that is in testing (iirc it works on stable), or even go use the pre-release package for 4.2.0 that I have in my experimental TWiki debian repository - (including Plugins, Contribs, Skins etc) at http://distributedINFORMATION.com

-- SvenDowideit - 02 Aug 2008

Yep, I decided to stick with 4.0.5 because it's the version "officially" supported by Debian. I tried BugsContrib on 4.1.2, but it looked very much the same, so I didn't investigate any further. I'll check that one once more. If all else fails, I'll go for 4.2.1 which AFAIS has been released yesterday.

-- UweSinha - 05 Aug 2008

I'm trying to get BugsContrib to work on my 4.1.2 install and have the same problem of the 'metadata' not showing on the bug reports. My logs are not showing the same warnings as above and I feel I'm experiencing the same issue as described in HowToEditBugsContribItems. The file permissions look ok. Is there any solution without upgrading? I'm a newbie with Twiki and that looks like a sledgehammer to crack this nut....

-- EuanMcInnes - 01 Sep 2008

Sorry, closing after more than 30 days. Please reopen with more details if needed...

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Nov 2008

Now at last I found the time to play around with TWiki 4.2.4. Guess what: BugsContrib works like a charm now. So in fact the answer to this problem seems to be: upgrade to something 4.2-ish. Somehow I didn't get my Debian installation to get to work with Sven's "unofficial" repository. Instead I followed the instructions in TWikiOnDebianEtch and installed BugsContrib using the configure script. Worked fine for me.

Changed SupportStatus accordingly.

-- UweSinha - 24 Feb 2009