[Owncloud] bugtracker situation

Frank Karlitschek frank at owncloud.org
Mon Oct 22 23:48:59 UTC 2012


On 22.10.2012, at 20:06, Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org> wrote:

> On Monday 22 October 2012 23:40:25 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> It is indeed unfortunate that github is not open source. We did the decision
>> to move there only after checking that there is no lock-in.
> 
> I'm a little confused.
> Whenever the issue of the bug tracker came up, it was cut short since it would 
> be discussed on the meeting in Berlin (imo unfortunate since it would limit the 
> participants to the onces available in Berlin).
> 
> Now I'm seeing ppl make suggestions in this thread for other bug tracking 
> software and I thought I'd come up with my own suggestion. Until I read the 
> quoted part (above) and your other replies which (strongly) indicate the 
> decision has already been made.


I´m sorry if the communication was not optimal.
We discussed the usage of the github issues after the move to github a few weeks ago and most people seems to like it. I also use it for an internal project and it works fine.
The only showstoppers that we identified at that time was the problem with the url and useraccounts than can´t be migrated with the script from Thomas. After some more discussion it became clear the the current solution is the best compromise. 

There are a lot of pros and cons for every bugtracker. We discussed it several times and we want to go with the github issue tracker for now because of the nice integration with the code and the integration with the usermanagement.


> So the next question is probably only (?) for my own education/selection 
> process:
> Why not bugzilla?
> It is Open Source, proven and scalable software and full of (useful) features.


I´m sure there a a lot of pros and const for that decision. But this solution is something that works best for us for now and most people seems to like it.


Frank




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