On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:50 AM, JonathanGregory <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I agree with @rhattersley <https://github.com/rhattersley> that it would
> make sense to copy the trac tickets to a separate cf-conventions GitHub
> repository, with their original numbers, in order to keep them for
> posterity.
>
+1

> I don't think we should oblige everyone to switch immediately to GitHub
> and stop using Trac, though we can encourage it.
>
yes, we should -- having the same thing managed two ways is a pain in teh
#^$*.

I know change can be hard, but semi-change / lack of clarity, confusing
mess is harder.

And it's really not that different for the common use cases!

> The meeting last week was certainly in favor of a quick move, but the
> people at that meeting may not be an entirely representative sample of the
> whole community of contributors to CF. I guess it was a more technically
> minded set than the average.
>
maybe so -- but TRAC isn't exactly a model of usability :-) gitHub (at
least for issue management) isn't any more technical that TRAC, and I think
it's more usable, not less. So it's more a old dog / new tricks issue.

-CHB

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