On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Andrew Featherstone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/07/14 21:17, Dirk Bächle wrote: >> >> On 07.07.2014 22:01, anatoly techtonik wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Featherstone >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I was wondering what the current state of issue tracking is for the >>>> SCons >>>> project. There was some talk a little while back about moving away from >>>> Tigris to a different issue tracker, has that happened? >>> >>> No. Sorry. Dirk made script to export tigris.org issues, which I >>> saved here: >>> https://bitbucket.org/techtonik/dataliberation/src/tip/issues/?at=default >>> >>> but Google deprecated their Issue API, probably due a lot of spam: >>> https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/IssueTrackerAPIPython >>> Bitbucket supports import/export, but was considered awful by me: >>> >>> https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Export+or+import+issue+data >>> >>> and then I stuck with reversing Roundup tracker model. >> >> >> Moving to Roundup as bug tracker got discussed recently on the dev ML: >> >> http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2014-May/001369.html >> >> I have patched the export scripts from the dataliberation repo above, >> and am able to export most of the current Tigris tracker's info to a >> Roundup instance. >> >> I also have two final pull requests pending at OpenHatch: >> >> https://github.com/openhatch/oh-bugimporters/pull/57 >> https://github.com/openhatch/oh-mainline/pull/293 >> >> which will make our database available (read-only) via their Roundup >> tracker. > > Whilst the project may not like Github or Bitbucket's in built issue > trackers, personally rolling your own comes across as a really good way to > minimise the number of people who contribute to the SCons project. Each > unfamiliar technology, new account to set up, etc forms a hurdle, and > eventually people just stop jumping. I've only every heard of Roundup on > this list, and Tigris is dying but at least it exists and can and is being > used today. It's the dev team's prerogative to move from tracker to tracker, > but please let's not sidetrack a thread on "how can I make the project > better today" with conjecture and what-ifs.
Roundup tracker is used by bugs.python.org and it is, like SCons, open source and MIT licensed. So pumping up Roundup is a contribution on larger scale. I completely agree that the entry process should be as fast as possible, but given two examples with python.org site and warehouse (new pypi) hosted in Github, I think it is only a part of the problem. SCons attracts people, because people here try to eat their own dogfood, keep things vendor-unlocked, original and open from ground zero up. Not many projects are organized in this fashion. What will help SCons is to implement http://openid.net/connect/ for Roundup. This tech is new, entertaining and is supported by Google at least. -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
