[GRASS-dev] Proposal bug management (old trackers - GRASS-trac)

[Markus Neteler]

(cc intevation.de)

On Feb 9, 2008 11:35 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Suggestion: create tickets in GRASS-trac for the important bugs left
> > in GForge or RT. This permits to assign milestones and renders bug
> > management more transparent (with little overhead). Communication
> > should continue in the old reports.
>
> A nice idea, so we can use trac's nice milestone lists.
>
> But if doing that, I would prefer to full-ascii copy over old bug log
> into the new report and resolve the old report with a note about where
> it has moved to.
>
>
> Was there any movement getting ssh (or whatever) access to the GForge
> machine to copy to the trac machine and run the importer?
>
> Is there any way to get a raw dump of the RT system? There is a wealth
> of institutional knowledge and reasoning in there. Also interesting tid
> bits like  http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=1069
>
> If not, and it doesn't look good I think we should start on a HTML
> scraper for that. (both open and closed! bugs) That way we could keep a
> searchable archive. After archiving GRASS 5-only bugs as 'wontfix' we
> could "port" the important ones into trac on a as-needed basis.
> ?
>
> If we can get access to the raw RT database files there are other
> options... i.e. write our own translator if one doesn't already exist.
> I think it's important enough to consider going to the effort.

There was a sort of promise to generate the dump... no clue when this
will happen :(


> Also I personally feel that access to information is more important
> than limiting clutter in trac. The milestone filters etc can keep the
> "modern" bugs away from the long standing issues.
>
>
> Hamish
>
> ps- in a harddrive crash I have some months ago lost my RT login
> details. There are some bugs like #815 we can close now (r.category
> rules=).  http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=815

I observe that my RT account also fails. And no crash here...
Possibly also RT problems?

Markus