[Qgis-psc] again about the bug tracker

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,


Il 10/24/2018 11:15 AM, Jürgen E. Fischer ha scritto:
> Hi Denis,
>
> On Thu, 11. Oct 2018 at 13:06:00 -0400, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
>> Well to me the end goal in this project is *getting a new bug tracker* not
>> *migrating to a complete open-source solution*. That's maybe that's the
>> root of our difference in point of view.
> To me the goal would be to "get a better bug tracker".  And IMHO it still
> hasn't been demonstrated that other bug trackers are not only different, but
> better.  So much better that it's worth the migration.
>
> github's bugtracker's big advantage would be that it's better integrated to the
> rest of github we currently use.  But that's probably just because there's no
> option to integrate anything else on github - and we can't do anything about
> that (because it's not free - IMHO this is what is open source's top strength -
> not philosophy).
>
> I'm not convinced that it's better otherwise (but I also wasn't when we
> switched from trac either - not sure if that was a worthwhile step, except
> for the control we gained by doing so).
>
> If github's bugtracker isn't better, we'd also have to move the rest to get
> something better integrated (or just add the missing link to redmine).  Anyhow
> that would make the task of migration even bigger.  That's where gitlab may
> come in.
>
> Bottom line we don't have a consensus how to move forward and getting everyone
> aboard would required setting it up upfront.  But nobody is sure everyone or at
> least a majority will like that better and so all the work might in the end
> just turn out to be something that we don't want.
>
>
> BTW the mail probem was not related to redmine at all - just to gmail becoming
> more picky about senders (if this was actually a new problem) & the missing SPF
> record in qgis' DNS.  The mail notification about something I just changed is
> usually the next mail in my folder to the one that led to the change - so it's
> instantly there.
>
>

thanks Juergen for resuming the situation. This has become such a long
standing, contentious, and sometime emotional issue that your rational
approach is much needed.
So, the crucial issue: why exactly a move is necessary? Could proponent
of the solution resume the advantages of their preferred solution?
I know this has been written over and over, but let's try to put all
pieces together once more.
Thanks.

-- 
Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
QGIS.ORG Chair:
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/


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