Using github for issues/collaboration

[Antonio Huete Jimenez]

2014-02-13 15:48 GMT+01:00 Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>:
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> Am 13.02.2014 15:26, schrieb Antonio Huete Jimenez:
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>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> Honestly I don't see any compelling reasons in your email for us to
>> switch to Github. But I'd be interested in knowing what are those
>> collaboration barriers you see in Redmine.
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> Hm, the visual experience on github is IMHO the main aspect for me.  And
> it's simplicity. You can use markup language to format the issue.  Also
> the integration with the repository, for example, you can just click to
> see the related commit that fixes the issue in the github web interface
> (we'd still have our own git repository of course!).

Redmine also has Markup for formatting but we can't use it because
some people's using tabs on their emails and that screws up
formatting.
Also, it's easy to reference specific commits in the tickets since we
keep track of our Repository in redmine, too.

> I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I somehow feel a resistance to
> submit a bug report on redmine.
>

That's understandable, as the tickets tend to rot in the tracker
without any feedback.

>> We could say that many other projects are sucessfully using Redmine
>> for their issue tracking too.
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> Definitively.
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>> Anyways, I have to agree with someone who's wiser than me in that
>> "Changing bug tracking system is not going to solve the tickets
>> themselves". So from my point of view there are other areas that would
>> need much more love than tracker itself :-)
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> My point is not just bug reports, but especially feature discussions.
> Right now they are mostly lost in mailing lists or in the wiki. For
> example, I want to propose some GSoC projects. But the wiki is just not
> the right place for it, as it needs further discussion.

Our Wiki is open for collaboration, anyone can register and create a new page.

> Just take a look at the rust issues, it's a good place to see the git
> issues system in use:
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>   https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues

Beautiful :-)

> Regards,
>
>   Michael
>

Cheers,
Antonio Huete

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>> 2014-02-13 14:27 GMT+01:00 Michael Neumann <mneumann at ntecs.de>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What do the developers think about using github for collaboration on the
>>> DragonFly project?
>>> I don't want to step on anyone's foots, but personally I prefer it over
>>> redmine.
>>> For me it lowers the barrier of collaboration and communication
>>> significantly.
>>> For example GSoC projects could be suggested on the issues system and
>>> people
>>> can comment on it
>>> much more easily as it is right now possible in our Wiki.
>>>
>>> I understand that having the issues system under our control has some
>>> advantages. But
>>> github is a very open system, so all data can be easily retrieved by an
>>> API
>>> (to backup etc).
>>>
>>> All I can say is that other open-source projects use it with great
>>> success
>>> (for example mozilla/rust),
>>> and I'd like to make it easier for users to submit bug reports or to
>>> collaborate on ideas.
>>>
>>> If there is general consensus that this is a good idea, I'd volunteer to
>>> migrate the issues from redmine to
>>> a test repository on github, so that people can see how it would look
>>> like.
>>> I think one functionality that we'd loose
>>> is the ability to answer issues via the bugs at dragonfly mailing list. But
>>> replying to an issue sent via github would
>>> of course work.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>    Michael