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I have started a fork of MantisBT for a new system for managing formal document reviews. Please see:

https://github.com/Inspirati/doctis

Any help I can get will be much appreciated, as the effort to bring this to full fruition is quite likely more than I can achieve on my own.

From the project README.md:

The Doctis project aims to add support to MantisBT for tracking documents and the issues raised against them during a formal review process.

Documents can be any set of electronic files or physical objects that can have suitable configuration data to uniquely identify them.

The documents themselves will not be contained within the system, but rather their leading particulars will include a reference number, and/or a URL to their location.

The easiest way to try Doctis is to duplicate the developers test environment, hosted in a VirtualBox running a Debian based Linux.

A script to automatically clone, install, and configure Doctis is under development and is currently undergoing beta testing.

Creating a fork instead of creating a pliugin to standard MantisBT is questionable.
There are just a few contributors for standard MantisBT, so I expect even fewer contributors for a specialized version.
Nonetheless, wish you success for your project.

That’s a fantastic initiative! Extending MantisBT into a system for managing formal document reviews sounds both practical and much needed. I like the modular approach of tracking document metadata and linking issues without storing the files directly — it keeps things lightweight and flexible. Using VirtualBox for a ready-to-run test environment is also a smart move for onboarding contributors quickly. Once your setup script stabilizes, you might consider adding Docker support for easier deployment. I’ll check out Doctis on GitHub and see where I can help or provide feedback.

redaky wrote: 30 Oct 2025, 07:23 Extending MantisBT into a system for managing formal document reviews

As mentioned above, this is no extending MantisBT but a fork starting a new product.