Hi all, I would like to suggest a switch from roundup to redmine as our bugtracker.
I've written a perl script that does an easy migration of all the data in roundup to redmine, keeping even the same usernames, passwords, ... The demo containing our migrated roundup database as of yesterday can be accessed at: http://atun-pistolero.ath.cx:3000/ To try out the code review I think you need to login. Remember that you can login with your usual bugs.dragonflybsd.org user/password. Note that it's hosted on my home machine and accessible via my DSL; so don't expect awesome speed because I only have 1 Mbps upload. I also might need to reboot that machine, so if the web page is not accessible, just retry 5 minutes later. Now on to the important part; what it offers: a) perfect mailing list integration such as the one we have now with roundup. Sending a mail to a certain address will create an issue, replying to it will add further comments. This can even be set up so different addresses (aliases) will do different things; i.e. add to different projects, add with a different priority or category. b) a (subjectively) much nicer web interface, a mature and simple plugin interface and many plugins and themes. c) Useful tools such as Code Review (any diff, patch or even git commit can be reviewed line by line), wiki, Download list, Repository Browser (similar to gitweb, but well integrated into redmine), ... d) Issues can easily closed by just referencing them with some given keyword in commit messages; for example adding a line such as: "Fixes: #1333" to the commit message would automatically close that issue. e) As sjg@ mentioned on IRC, it allows for easy setup of multiple projects, which, quoting him, "would really be ideal to setup all the individual GSoC projects as projects with easy access to code, easy ability for people to do reviews, submit thoughts/bugs, and provide timelines/etc." f) *Really* trivial to setup, maintain and configure. It took me about 1 hour to have everything set up from scratch, without any prior knowledge about postfix, etc. What took longest was writing the perl script to migrate the database, but that's done already. I've tried out features a) to c) rather extensively, so I know what I'm talking about. While this may not solve our general issue of having many bugs rotting in the bug tracker, it will at least provide a better toolset. Feature d) comes in quite handy and I would expect it to reduce the number of issues staying open longer than they need. It also meets the requirements of not being PHP (ask Justin about details on this requirement) and integrating with our mailing lists. Redmine is highly scalable and customizable and would allow for possible further expansion by, say, adding further projects or adding more project management tools. Unlike roundup, it doesn't require hacking every little bit of code just to make it look acceptable and be useful. In theory it would even be possible to move the whole website to use redmine's wiki, as it supports markdown, but I would like to stay away from that issue at first and just use it as an alternative to bugs.dragonflybsd.org. If this move is of interest to more people, which seems to be the case from the feedback I received on IRC, I would like to see this system up and running as soon as possible. I'm willing to do most of the setup myself, if I'm given the access (I need to install a bunch of ruby and family packages), but I might need some help with postfix or whatever else is being used as a mail server, as I'm by no stretch a {sys,net}admin. Cheers, Alex Hornung
