On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 06:00:45PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 12:53 PM Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 10:32:06AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > Colleagues, > > > > > > I've tried to rest my "forgotten password" in the LyX bug tracker. > > > However, the emails it sends are failing to reach me (not my inbox or my > > > "junk" folder). > > > > > > Do we know whether everything is working as expected? > > > > > > Sorry for any inconvenience in this regard—I'm quite certain of my > > password > > > so I'm not sure what the issue is... > > > > Hi Joel, > > > > Arg sorry for that frustration. The bug tracker is pretty old, and > > certainly some strange things have happened because of it. I haven't > > heard of any recent strangeness along the lines that you've experienced > > but I'm also not surprised. I wish I could offer to transfer things to > > e.g., GitLab but I just don't have time. > > > > I don't know if there is a way for us to recover your account. Wait > > until someone more knowledgeable than I comes along before you try > > something. One hackish possibility is that I think it is easy to > > *delete* your account. I wonder if we delete your account and you make a > > new account with the same user name if trac will treat it continuously > > (e.g., if we search for bugs created by <your username> it shows both > > old ones and ones with your "new" account). > > > > Scott > > > > Scott, > > Thanks for these thoughts! Indeed, JMarc replied a bit after you and I > privately replied to propose a course of action that'll hopefully get me > back to submitting issues. Thanks to you both for your replies!
Great, I'm glad there is hope. > Along those lines, you mentioned transitioning to Gitlab. That's something > I investigated ~1 year ago. I'm happy to share nascent (and partial) work, > but I'm unsure whether there are any privacy concerns of the metadata that > I propagated, which is why I'm not immediately sharing the link in this > note. > > From that work, I observe that the migration will be somewhat labor > intensive, and many of the formatting "niceties" of legacy issues will be > lost or at least severely diluted. I'm not entirely happy with the result, > which is why I didn't share progress before now, but perhaps the 90% > solution is acceptable for older issues acknowledging that the 100% > solution for issues and the other tightly integrated interface elements for > future issues (and work) is worth it. I provide this link in case we want > to revisit discussion on this point and to pursue this as an option. > > I'm happy to address comments, questions, or concerns in this regard. Thanks, Joel! I've been complaining several years that we should switch, but I don't do anything about it :). And I still have no plans to volunteer. Scott
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