Hugin !== Ubuntu or Kubuntu Personally I like Mantis, have enjoyed using it, and it's very successful for projects much larger than hugin.
Dale On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 14:31 -0400, Yuval Levy wrote: > Hi all > > One thing that has been bugging (pun intended) me for a few years now is the > bug tracker. Hugin has grown and IMHO the SourceForge bug tracker is now > inadequate for Hugin's needs. > > Our current stats: > - Bugs 1115 total - 218 open > - Feature Requests 240 total - 161 open > - Patches 145 total - 12 open > > I've tried to make it work a few times, but I never managed to clean it up > completely or sorting out the bugs properly. There is a lot of old cruft > that > never expires. > > So I looked for alternatives, and my recommendation is: let's move on to > *Launchpad*. It enables users to not only contribute bugs, but also to work > on their triaging and getting more involved. > > The criteria I used to evaluate the different bug trackers were: > - search and scalability > - ease of use > - engaging interaction > - ease of migrating the data in and out (we don't want walled gardens) > > I've considered other tools as well, but in the end Launchpad is IMHO the > best > zero-cost hosted solution available, and unlike with the repository change > earlier this year, definitely one step ahead of the competition. It is used, > amongst others, by Inkscape [0]. The results they have achieved are > excellent > [1]. > > With self-hosting (i.e. funding) I might have considered an alternative like > Roundup [2], used by the Python Foundation. But (a) we don't have self > hosting and (b) the extra cost and effort does not justify the extra benefit > IMHO. > > The people at Canonical have been very forthcoming. I have exported the SF > bug tracker and they will import it to a staging version of Launchpad where > we > will get to play with it. I am waiting for the URL where we can experiment > with the new bug tracker to see if it fits our needs [3]. > > At the same time, I contacted the current owner of the unmaintained > Hugin/Ubuntu page on Launchpad [4]. He has moved on and offered to transfer > ownership. I hope we can get the bugs to reside there so that we can > consolidate the efforts for official Ubuntu binaries with the effort for > better > bug tracking *for all platforms*. Hugin will have a second home on > Launchpad. > Actually a third, if we consider that the mailing list is on GoogleGroups and > the code and website will stay on SourceForge. > > A few of the advantages of Launchpad: > * bugs can be tagged, so they can belongs to more than just one category at > the same time, and can be easily searched > * users can mark bugs that affect them, giving a signal to bug fixer where > the > most pain is felt > * after a while, bugs expire automatically - let's face it, some issues just > don't attract enough attention and having them clutter the bug tracker is > counter-productive > > > NEXT STEPS: > * once we have a staging version of the tracker, I will ask *you* to play > with > it. Judge the responsiveness of the interface, the ease of use. Try to file > a > bug report. See how it behaves. > * if there is no opposition within the next 2-3 weeks, I will freeze the > current bug tracker and start the final export/import. We're likely to have > an > interruption of a couple of days between export and import. > * once the new bug tracker is active, users are invited to help triage the > bugs, freeing developers to actually fix those that have been triaged > properly. > > I hope we can achieve similar results as Inkscape [5]. Hugin has outgrown > the > SF bug tracker. There is plenty of room to grow further on Launchpad. > > Yuv > > [0] <https://launchpad.net/inkscape> > [1] <http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/135> > [2] <http://roundup.sourceforge.net/> > [3] <https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+question/131028> > [4] <https://launchpad.net/hugin> > [5] <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
