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Am 04.07.2012 15:28, schrieb Zieris, Franz:
> Dear Saros developers,
>
> one issue has been running in my mind since I saw it for the first time. I'm 
> talking of the multiple trackers we own in our Sourceforge space. Currently 
> we're talking about no less than four trackers, each with a slightly 
> different purpose: Bugs, Documentation Issues, Feature Requests and 
> Refactoring Requests.
>
> I didn't bring up this topic yet, because although I'm quite unhappy with 
> this situation on a conceptual level, I did not see any huge practical 
> drawbacks.
>
> But: Yesterday Stefan "moved" a tracker artifact from "Bugs" to "Feature 
> Requests" (from [1] to [2]). This clearly demonstrated several disadvantages 
> (this is not against you, Stefan :):
>
>   * The fields "Assigned to", "Category", and "Group" and the visibility of 
> the "Resolution" field are maintained separately for each tracker. That means 
> that e.g. every new project member needs to be added to all trackers 
> manually, to be selectable as the artifact's assignee.
>   * The field "Tracker" is mutable, which allows a migration from one tracker 
> to another. But since the value ranges of the several fields are different 
> for each tracker, data loss may result. Additionally I fear that this changes 
> the URL of the item as well, because the Tracker id ("atid") is part of the 
> URL. The alternative way of a copy-paste "migration" (as Stefan did) is not a 
> real alternative: There is no way of backtracking, comments are lost in the 
> artifact, etc.
>
>
> General problems with more than one tracking system:
>
>   * Developers don't have a simple, single access point to gain the 
> information they need: e.g. "What are my open tasks?" -- One can use the 
> "Advanced Search" and select multiple trackers, but since I see no 
> possibility to save these queries (as it is possible in Trac) this is only a 
> workaround and not efficient.
>
>
> My proposal:
>
>   * Only use one single tracker.
>   * There is no need for Documentation Issues, Feature Requests and 
> Refactoring Requests to be heavily sub-categorized. Therefor a single new 
> Category for each former Tracker ("Documentation", "Feature Request", 
> "Refactoring Request") should be sufficient.
>   * I know: The migration of the open tasks is a stupid, but feasible work.
>
> Any comments or objections?
>
> Franz
>
>
> Links:
> [1] 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=843359&aid=3514927&group_id=167540
> [2] 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=843362&aid=3539934&group_id=167540
>
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