<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16811 >
> [s1kevin - Mon Dec 29 07:06:22 2008]: > > This bug has been open since May of '06. Is anyone taking > my offer to assist moving from RT to Bugzilla seriously? > If not, please close this issue. > > I believe this is the best way I can contribute now to > the development of Freeciv - by providing what I feel > is a far superior issue tracking system with much better > search capabilities and more transparency to help encourage > developer participation (even new developers). If you use > Eclipse as your development environment, it has support > for task management (via Mylyn) directly in Bugzilla. > > I might be willing to assist in Freeciv code development, > but at this point, I'd want to use an issue tracking > system that supports me as both a user and a developer. > From my perspective, RT is not designed for software > development projects. Bugzilla is. Here is what needs to happen: 1. A host for the bug tracker must be found. This is either a machine someone can install/configure bugzilla on, or a service hosting bugzilla. 2. The current RT system needs to be frozen, all new requests redirected to the new tracker, and the public bug report address updated everywhere. 3. Current outstanding tickets and history should be moved to the new tracker. The problem has always been 1, since a dedicated machine (e.g. in a data center) costs money, or a free service is restricted (e.g. in allowed space) or missing some key functionality. Assuming a solution to the above exists, 2 is hard because the only people (person?) with the required access to the RT machine is not an active developer and/or checks freeciv-dev only infrequently (besides probably not having the time to make the changes in RT, if that is even possible). 3 is not crucial; I assume there are less than 100 important open tickets, which can be moved by hand as they are handled, and the RT system could be kept in "read-only" mode to make the history available (in the minimum-effort scenario). If as you said using bugzilla would help encourage developer contributions from the community then I am strongly for it. This project is in great need of help from competent coders to handle bug reports, assist less experienced programmers with their ideas, and fix the design mistakes that have broken past working features (e.g. borders) and are causing new development to stagnate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- サンタクロースではなく、キッコーマンだよ。 _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
