[Qgis-developer] issue move to gh stalled

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

The issue tracker was discussed almost 1.5h at the board meeting - and 
it wasn't a clear and unanimous decision. Some board members (including 
me) also changed their minds during the discussion. Apparently not all 
core devs were happy with the quite limited filtering and structuring 
options that github offers. The issue tracker is certainly quite 
limited, compared to other issue tracker offerings. Offering only labels 
is quite limited. In addition, migrating all the existing tickets from 
Redmine to Github turned out to be non-trivial - and we don't want to 
loose the old issues.

Finally, it is probably good that we are in control of the issues and 
that it runs on free software. The board knows that not all people are 
happy with this decision but one cannot make everyone happy ... we hope 
that the "unhappy" people can still live with the renewed (and faster) 
Redmine.

The issues are migrated to the newest Redmine version and on a dedicated 
machine rented by QGIS.ORG to ensure good performance. This should make 
dealing with issues much more pleasant and more performant.

Big thanks to Jürgen, Richard and Pirmin for dealing with the Redmine 
migration.

Andreas

Am 26.08.2016 um 22:08 schrieb Marco Bernasocchi:
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>> I was under the impression that we were leaning towards to migrating
>> to GH issues tracker.
>> What was the main reason behind choosing Redmine again? technical
>> issues? lack of time to solve them? Will the migration to a new
>> Redmine version be effortless?
>>
> Me too. I'm still convinced that this is a _very_ sub optimal solution for everybody.
> Pity we really want to stick with something that forces us continuing having two different, non integrated tools where one could have done it in a great way.
>
> Cheers Marco