[Qgis-developer] Qgis-Processing (former Sextante) has two bug trackers

[Alexander Bruy]

Category in main QGIS tracker should be removed and all tickets
moved into Processing subproject.

2014-03-26 11:46 GMT+02:00 Filipe Dias <filipesdias at gmail.com>:
> Great, thanks Alex.
>
> I see a minor issue: users who are not aware of the Processing tracker will
> probably open tickets in the main tracker with the general category
> Processing/Sextante and won't be able to specify which is the affected
> backend (the Processing bug tracker has a subcategory for each backend: SAGA
> GIS, GRASS GIS etc).
>
> A possible workaround would be to replace the category Processing/Sextante
> with Processing/SAGA GIS, Processing/R, Processing GRASS GIS etc.
>
> Thanks
> Regards
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> thanks to Alex, now Processing/SEXTANTE bugtracker is
>> a subproject of QGIS. All Processing tickets should be visible
>> inside main QGIS tracker, but for submitting issue one should
>> use Processing tracker.
>>
>> Please test. If this solution will not work fine for us we can always
>> restore previous state.
>>
>> 2014-03-25 17:08 GMT+02:00 Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>:
>> > +1 from me to make Processing/SEXTANTE subproject if
>> > this keep all tickets categories and allow to see Processing
>> > bugs among QGIS ones
>> >
>> > 2014-03-24 21:32 GMT+02:00 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>:
>> >> As a sub-project, it would show up in queries of the main QGIS ticket
>> >> system, but at the same time be able to have it's own internal
>> >> categories.
>> >>
>> >> This to me seems the best compromise. It's really a big plugin with a
>> >> myriad of backends. That complexity is what makes it a little different
>> >> from the others mentioned. The others mentioned could be sub-projects
>> >> of
>> >> the main QGIS too. In reality all of them are core plugins, but they
>> >> are
>> >> still plugins. None of them are required to make QGIS work (boot).
>> >> Hence
>> >> they each have their own category. The challenge here is
>> >> Processing/Sextante(I always call it by both since I do the the
>> >> possibility of Processing stuff that isn't sextante) needs it's own
>> >> categories/sub-categories.
>> >>
>> >> Also it's really easy for use to try moving it to be a subproject and
>> >> then reassess (Takes about 30 seconds to move it). If it's still not
>> >> right then we can talk about how to move tickets.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Alex
>> >>
>> >> On 03/24/2014 12:05 PM, Filipe Dias wrote:
>> >>> Hi
>> >>> I think Processing tickets should be in the main bug tracker, since
>> >>> GDAL
>> >>> tools, fTools and Grass plugin tickets are also there.
>> >>>
>> >>> Also, Qgis-Processing is a really big (and great) feature, that
>> >>> interests a
>> >>> lot of users, so it makes sense to keep its tickets in the main
>> >>> tracker.
>> >>>
>> >>> Regards
>> >>> F.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Alex Mandel
>> >>> <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> On 03/24/2014 05:10 AM, Filipe Dias wrote:
>> >>>>> Hi
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> QGIS-Processing (former Sextante) has open tickets on two
>> >>>>> bugtrackers:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> - the plugin bug tracker, built when it was a plugin, but with a lot
>> >>>>> of
>> >>>>> active tickets -> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/sextante/activity
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> - the main bug tracker with a few open tickets ->
>> >>>>> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/issues
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I understand those two can't be merged in one go, because the
>> >>>>> plugin-bugtracker has categories (QGIS-Processing SAGA GIS,
>> >>>> QGIS-Processing
>> >>>>> GRASS GIS etc) that don't fit in the main bug tracker. But this
>> >>>>> should be
>> >>>>> solved ASAP, because the current situation is quite confusing
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Regards
>> >>>>> F.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I'm of the opinion that the tracker should continue to be the Plugin
>> >>>> tracker, not the main QGIS tracker. So I'd propse moving any
>> >>>> Sextante/Processing tickets from the main or linking them into the
>> >>>> Plugin tracker.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> To me it's still a plugin, just a core plugin but big enough that
>> >>>> it's
>> >>>> really a subproject. If we wanted to move the Plugin tracker as a
>> >>>> sub-project of QGIS that would also make sense.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Also Processing bugs aside from Processing not loading aren't
>> >>>> showstoppers for release.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks,
>> >>>> Alex
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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