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

Nyall Dawson nyall.dawson at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 15:24:01 PST 2018


On 14 January 2018 at 23:19, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Il 14/01/2018 12:11, Richard Duivenvoorde ha scritto:
>> On 14-01-18 00:17, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
>>> Actually this is not true (correct me if I am wrong PSC): the PSC was
>>> against two things:
>>>
>>> 1) losing all history in issue manager. I think this is reasonable since
>>> there is a lot of very useful history in the issue tracker and it was
>>> felt that a 'clean slate start ‘ would be a disservice to all those who
>>> have raised issues in the past.
>>> 2) calling for a migration without a fully tested, fully fleshed out
>>> plan to manage the migration from start to finish. This means someone
>>> taking responsibility for the *whole* process which so far hasn’t been
>>> forthcoming.
>>
>> That is exactly what it was in my memory too.
>
> I can confirm. I Still believe loosing all our history of open and
> closed issues would be a serious damage to the project.

I agree. I'd find this a very very sore loss. Personally, I'm
referring to historic issues almost on a daily basis, both for
checking what closed issues actually were and also checking for open
issues before working on an area of code.

Nyall


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