[Qgis-developer] issue move to gh stalled

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All


A couple of notes from me from the meeting to add to Andreas and Richard's comments:

* We looked at the GitLab issue tracker - the functionality seems close to GitHub's tracker so no category support. This is a blocker for some.
* Until someone has complete and working migration to GitHub or GitLab, the option should be considered off the table since losing our history was considered a blocker.

Please consider the Redmine upgrade an interim solution which gives us:

* Redmine updated to the latest version with improved functionality
* Getting ourselves off the OSGEO authentication framework so we can get rid of the mantra etc. experience
* Hosting on a new server with SSD drives etc and  hosted in europe will make the site much more responsive
* Using oauth authentication means you should be able to log in with your existing credentials from GitHub

In the process we are also streamlining things to get rid of the WIKI and other hosted projects on redmine so that when we do eventually do a complete migration we don't have anything to deal with.

In summary it is a step forward, maybe not the step we all wanted, but it is pragmatic and paves the way for full migration into a unified platform (GitHub or GitLab) later when someone has stepped up to the plate to support doing a complete migration.

Regards

Tim



> On 27 Aug 2016, at 2:31 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> On 26-08-16 23:03, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Being part of the unhappy, I would like to ask if you have considered
>> running our own gitlab instance or using a gitlab service?
>> 
>> To me integrated solution should be a hard requirement.
>> 
>> If we have to maintain something like Redmine, why not gitlab. It seems
>> you can categorize issues.
> 
> To add some extra info:
> 
> - we put effort in porting the existing issues to github (given the
> precondition we want to keep full history with such a move, and not
> loose information). But failed both in time and complexity, and
> everybody was 'waiting' on a move ...
> 
> - also administration/updating the running service was an issue in this.
> Because of the old version of the OS it was not so easy to update
> Redmine, because of the old verson of Redmine we have a security issue
> AND the redmine2github scripts that we found on internet did not work
> with this older redmine version...
> 
> So having a fast and uptodate OS now, with a Redmine that is easily
> updatable (apt-get update) we think this is the best step for now.
> Github Integration I think is doable with the plugins, webhooks we use now.
> 
> As Gitlab is not in the repo's we would have to install our own, AND we
> also were not able to recover the issues.
> 
> Now that it looks that we can at least move all our issues + info to an
> up to date OS/Redmine version, maybe somebody can do some testing to see
> if he/she is able to use newer 'export/import' scripts available... But
> note that you VERY early hit in Github throtteling issues....
> 
> So: please bear with us for now, and if we have the new Redmine running
> (it is at least very fast!), we can always see if there is another
> alternative, given the precondition that we want to pull all info over
> to another 'system'... we 'just' need somebody to do it :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
tim at qgis.org




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