Roundup -> Trac

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Mar 14 19:16:07 CDT 2011


On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 00:11 +0100, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
> 2011/3/14 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:35 +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:21, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> >> > I can't say I got excited about Trac. Both Trac and Roundup seem
> >> > similarly underpowered to me. I might change my mind if I spent a few
> >> > more hours with it though.
> >>
> >> Well, I have a long history with Trac, and find it easy to maintain
> >> (with painless upgrades). It's also fairly easy to extend using their
> >> plugin model.
> >>
> >> Is there a list of Matt's Ten Things Bug Trackers Should Do yet?
> >
> > How about five?
> >
> > - Painless upgrades
> > - Seamless mail gateway
> > - Reliable search
> > - Bulk operations on issues
> > - Doesn't send an endless stream of tracebacks via email
> >
> > Though if it really does get upgrades right, that in itself may be
> > enough to switch. As an admin, the last thing I want is a package that
> > thinks it's so much more important than every other package that it
> > deserves manual attention at upgrade time. Roundup and Moin are serial
> > offenders.
> 
> Does it need to be Free (libre)?

Yes. Remember that Mercurial itself was started in response to a
non-free package suddenly changing its stance on open source projects
(and even going so far as to claim it owned the associated metadata like
the DAG!).

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.




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