If you are considering using a third party ticket system, why not go with the original plan and use Lighthouse?
Assembla looks great though, but it looks like a side-product for the consulting company... Reinier > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] [mailto:tracks- > [email protected]] Namens > [email protected] > Verzonden: vrijdag 26 december 2008 16:24 > Aan: tracks ([email protected]) > Onderwerp: [Tracks-discuss] Update on migration progress > > Some quick updates on the migration progress: > > When I emailed before, I mentioned that I was planning to create a > custom ticket setup on the Tracks home site, to replace Trac. I > managed to do that, but importing the previous tickets turned out to > be beyond me because of the complexity of the ExpressionEngine > database architecture. I spent quite a bit of time trying to fix it, > before discovering an online system, which -- at the very least -- > should be a very capable temporary system to tide us over the > migration period. > > So I've imported all the existing tickets and milestones to Assembla. > > http://www.assembla.com/spaces/tracks-tickets/tickets > > This is a hosted system, which allows free public projects and allows > anyone to sign up to create tickets and edit the wiki. It doesn't have > to advantage of the system that I was planning of allowing just one > signup for our forum, wiki and tickets, but it does have a number of > other advantages, including a very nice email notification system, > where you have fine control over how you receive notifications, and > you can even send emails to create or update tickets. There is also > integration with GitHub, so commits from GitHub are shown on the > Stream (equivalent to the Trac Timeline) and text such as 'Fixes #800' > in the commit message will automatically mark ticket 800 as fixed. > > I've had a bit of a look around Assembla and I'm impressed with the > features offered, but I'll be guided by the rest of you as to whether > you want to keep it as a permanent solution. I know that some people > are uncomfortable about having open source projects hosted by third > parties, but they provide a way to export your data easily, and since > the source is now hosted externally, it makes sense to me. Hosting > Trac was always the biggest headache for me, so it will be quite a > weight off my mind, and it's much easier to adminstrate new users. I > can also set it so that anyone (even if not logged in) can create and > comment on tickets if people don't want to create a login just to do > that. > > Can some of you take a quick look over the next few days and see what > you think? I'm visiting family for the next couple of days, but when I > return, I'll start the migration process and close down the old Trac > instance. For now, if you could add new tickets to Assembla, rather > than Trac, it would be a big help. > > cheers, > > bsag > > -- > but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek > http://www.rousette.org.uk > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Tracks-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
