On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:18 PM, John Bailey wrote: > Further, does it really make sense to give up control of such vital parts of > your infrastructure? Yes, there's maintenance and administration overhead, > but > at the same time you have complete control over both trac and mercurial as you > stand now. If you move to Google's offering, you're both giving up that > control > and trusting them to serve in your best interests at all times. I'm not so > sure > I'd be willing to trust in that.
This is an excellent, excellent point. There's definitely a balance to be struck -- overhead of maintaining and updating yourself vs. something hosted and maintained by a 3rd party -- but in this case I think it's pretty clear: trac is the 2nd most critical aspect of Adium's infrastructure second only to the actual code repository. We've customized Trac a great deal -- it fits in w/ the look and feel of our existing site, and we've customized the issue system a lot -- the pending flag, for instance, is super useful. It would be fantastic if we could improve our situation with Trac -- my understanding is that our particular install is (or was) very outdated and difficult to manage; perhaps the database import suggested earlier in this thread is the correct solution there, perhaps not, but in either case I think it's clear we should devote some of our precious developer resources to this (I would volunteer but I've already signed up for a few other things I need to clear out first). In any case, let's be sure we're not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. -Colin
