[QGIS-Developer] Last call for switching to github issue tracker

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi,

Good point, Denis!

Mathias already have done a lot to support the migration.
I volunteer to help on this task.

Regards,

Jorge Gustavo

On 12-01-2018 14:49, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> On 01/12/2018 03:31 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think the biggest question: who does all the work to migrate from
>> Redmine to Github while not loosing all our history?
>>
> 
> I started working on it some time ago and thought it looked quite
> promising. I stopped the work because of lack of conviction that there's
> a perspective for this.
> 
>> And I don't think that Redmine is so bad usability wise. I agree, the
>> UI is not as sexy as Github, but it does its job well. It is much more
>> powerful for finding and filtering. The issues we had with the slow
>> performance was fixed when moving to a new Machine at Hetzner. The
>> main argument for github is in my opinion not ease of use - but the
>> integration with the code base - that is definitely a strength of
>> github issue reporting. 
> 
> Agreed, it's better than before.
> Because no more mantra, usable performance.
> On the other hand I don't prefer it's search and filtering options.
> 
>> To undermine that github is not easy to use for non-dev users: last
>> Wednesday at the Swiss QGIS user meeting I was in the meeting for
>> QWC2. Users had no idea at all how Github works and could be used for
>> issue reporting. One had to explain it to them and teach them how to
>> use it. To assume that using github is self-explanatory for non-tech
>> users is a wrong assumption.
>>
> 
> I wouldn't claim that for either of the two platforms. There's a
> learning curve for both. Myself, I happen to meanwhile embrace markdown
> but struggle with the redmine syntax. Not because it's worse, just
> because I am too lazy to learn another one.
> 
> Matthias
> 
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