[Qgis-psc] Attachment file types on issues

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi all,



> Its great to see this is being raised again. In previous hackfests we discussed this with Giovanni and he seemed on board with the idea. In parallel we could migrate the wiki to GH wiki (which is also a git repo which is nice). Are you thinking more generally that we get rid of redline? Because there is still the issue of all the other projects we host there. It would be nice to end-of-life redline and ask others to migrate off it too so that we have less infrastructure to manage….


so, here is a little resume of the Redmine discussion we had in Las Palmas:

preface: there are developers and other people active within qgis that
are not very fond of Redmine. A discussions about advantages and
problems of a possible migration to Github seemed the proper thing to
do. So:

Redmine issues:

* (very) slow (server issue)
* not updated since 2010 and with no one with the necessary ruby
skills to make the necessary updates
* not really usable on mobile devices
* regardless of the docs, it not really intuitive for users where to
get the osgeo_id and why they should have to, considered that most
will not need for anything else
* patches get "lost" as they are not really visible to the devs
* some say difficult to search. I say that has extended searching
capabilities, maybe not very easy but I personally get used to.
Probably others (especially users) didn't
* for the users is overall confusing why the issue tracker is
separated (and in a completely different platform) from the code
repository

Migrating to Github issues:

* the most important is the lack for (zip) attachments
* need to migrate also wiki pages or merge them with docs (I
personally think this we should need to do it anyway). Do not seems a
big problem anyway.
* what to do with plugins repos hosted on Redmine?
* someone raised the issue about not being possible to customize
tickets (to add a paypal button) but I think that on Sunday someone
made some tests and concluded that this would not be an issue.

Other options:

* migrating everything to out own instance of Gitlab, this option
seems to have been discarded after a bit of discussion



Anita will ask OSGeo what is the chance to have access to a new
server, where eventually move Redmine. We would still have the problem
of updating it.

There is also an offer from a German company specialized in Redmine to
host our instance in one of their servers, and I guess that this would
include the help needed for the updates.

The main point against a migrations of tickets to Github was the lack
for zip files attachments. This prompted Matthias to send an email to
the github support. A first answer was negative (we asked for an
exception) but they seemed to leave space for further discussion, not
sure if they answered again to Matthias reply.

The lack of zip attachments (attaching images, PDF, doc is already
possible), seems really kind of blocker, but if we think well maybe it
is not so bad: on Redmine we already have a 5mb attachment limit, that
means that already a lot of users are prompted to send datasets using
Dropbox et simila and this never seemed to be a problem at all.

We ended with the million dollar question to present PSC members : if
we have zip attachments (or we decide anyway to rely on external
upload services) do you agree with migrating the bug tracker to
github? If I'm not wrong Anita and Richard said +1, Jurgen 0 and Paolo
-1, but if I'm not wrong in this last case it was because of the
supposed inability to customize tickets with the paypal button, that
seems not an issue after all. In my opinion we should really migrate
tickets on GH. Wiki pages are not an issue, and then I would suggest
also to plugin authors to do so.


cheers

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