On 04/11/2011 03:51 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 07:24 AM, Darren Dale wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Michael Droettboom<md...@stsci.edu>   
>> wrote:
>>      
>>> I couldn't find the old thread about Sourceforge bug tracker vs. the
>>> Github issue tracker, but maybe we should reevaluate based on the new
>>> Github issue tracker announced on Saturday:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation
>>>
>>> The integration with git commits (closing issues by mentioning them in
>>> the commit message) is particularly compelling.
>>>        
>> The new issue tracker is a really big improvement over the old github
>> tracker, and I prefer it to the one at sourceforge since it integrates
>> so nicely with github version control. The github tracker is still
>> missing some features that we may want to consider: prioritize issues,
>> add attachments, and perhaps report issues without opening a github
>> account.
>>      
> It is better, but to my eye, still not good.
>
> Prioritization can be handled via labels or milestones, but the lack of
> a simple, obvious attachment facility is a huge omission.  As far as I
> know there is also no simple set of categories for closed status--maybe
> that would also be done with labels.
Labels could be used for that purpose -- but it would be "by 
convention", so I can imagine we'd forget to do that from time to time.
>   (I'm not positive; I have not
> closed an item, and nothing happens when I click the "60 closed issues"
> tab, expecting to see the closed issues.  Similarly, nothing happens
> when I click the "submitted" "updated", and "comments" buttons.
I see this too.  And I think we're not the only ones -- there's a bug 
filed about it:

http://support.github.com/discussions/issues-issues/608-closed-tickets-do-not-show-up-in-the-list-firefox-3615

(Hmm... git doesn't use its own issue tracker for tracking its own 
issues... what does that say? <wink>)
>    Maybe
> all these things are bugs that show up if one does not have Firefox 4 or
> Chrome?)  The automatic, compulsory, irrevocable Markdown parsing of all
> comments is a horrible design,
The Wikis on github support a handful of formatting languages, including 
reStructuredText (which is what my fingers know best) -- so they "have 
the technology" to do something else.  But honestly, for short issue 
comments, I think plain text is the best choice.
>   and all the more so in the absence of
> file up/download facility.
>    
They've got gist, of course, but it is neither easy or intuitive for 
casual use.

Mike
> It's being used; I think we are stuck with it.  I have no objection to
> getting the migration over with, if you have the machinery to do it, Dale.
>
> Eric
>
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