On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 08:02 -0500, Ales Hvezda wrote: > > Did anyone consider using launchpad for tracking gEDA bugs? Just > > recently I used it to report a bug and it is definitely a lot nicer > > to use than the bug tracker on sourceforge...
I'm agnostic to this at the moment. I'm not a fan of the SF bug tracker, but there would of course be effort required in the change. > I'd be willing to entertain a transition to launchpad if: > > 1) Somebody (or somebodies) volunteers to migrate all the existing sf > bugs to launchpad. It is something the launchpad team can do.. Out of curiosity, I asked some of these questions, and have these answers: > Is it possible to import from the sourceforge trackers? > Yes, it is possible. > The process to do that is to file a question in Launchpad answer tracker: > https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+addquestion > > The process isn't automated. What usually happens is that we'll run the > importer for your project and you can review the results on a demo server. > When you decide to make the switch, we import them in the production > database. > If so, is it possible to keep the same bug numbers? > No, it's not possible. > Once imported in Launchpad, the bugs will have new bug numbers. But a link to > the SF bug number will be preserved in the form of a bug watch. So it will > still be possible to find the relevant LP bug from the SF bug number. > Is it possible to differentiate bugs from feature requests and > patches? > Yes, but in a different way then SF. (There was no further response on this.. I'm guessing it might involve adding tags to those bug reports). > 2) The owners of the new bug tracker on launchpad are geda-developers > group on launchpad. Would be no problem as far as I can see. > 3) Somebody provides some really compelling reasons why the launchpad > bug tracker is so much better than sf. I'm agnostic. > 4) On launchpad there has to be an easy way to dump the contents > (i.e. backup) of all the bugs. Currently sourceforge does have a > pretty easy mechanism for this. I'll have to ask about that. There is nothing I can immediately think of which springs to mind. > Item #1 is really the most important, as I have had my fun of migrating the > bug database from jitterbug to sf. How did the bug numbers change in that situation? -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
