[Owncloud] bugtracker situation

[Frank Karlitschek]

Yes. 
github issues seems to be preferred by most people.
But it was important to find a way to structure the transition which we hopefully have now.

Frank


On 22.10.2012, at 18:12, Michael <mike at draftx.net> wrote:

> Frank,
> This seems like a great solution. Thank you for working with everyone
> to get it set up. Anything is better than what we have now - it
> doesn't even list the bugs half the time.
> I assume this move is starting immediately - are there any places
> where we need to change links, update documentation, etc.?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> our current bugtracker bugs.owncloud.org works less than optimal as we all know. We had several discussion on the mailinglist on irc and in personal about options to improve this and I think all the options are on the table. I think we need a solution because it is difficult to work with and people are complaining.
>> 
>> github has a simple but nice issue tracker and it is also nicely integrated so the idea was and is to move to it. We don´t have a lock-in effect there because they have nice import and export APIs. Thomas even wrote a very great migration script :-)
>> 
>> The problem is that we lose the user accounts when we move the existing issues over and urls to the old bugs won´t work anymore.
>> 
>> So what we now do is this:
>> 
>> We will keep the old bugtracker bugs.owncloud.org for the old bugs but I will disable the option to add new bugs. Existing bugs can still be updated and closed.
>> New bugs can be added on github. I even saw recently that other project do it exactly like that too.
>> So it can´t be that wrong ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> This seems to be the best option for now and I hope that works for everybody.
>> 
>> 
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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