[Yt-dev] Bugs and Trac and BitBucket

[Sam Skillman]

i'm with cameron, don't use too much time. 3 then 1.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at astro.columbia.edu
> wrote:

> 3 then 1.  I don't know what exists on the Trac site, but unless there
> is an outcry to not break with history, there's no reason for you to
> bust your butt trying to import a bunch of old stuff.  Maybe just import
> the relevant/important stuff.
>
> On 04/05/2011 06:00 PM, Matthew Turk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've tried to get a nice bug import mechanism going to go from the
> > existing Trac to BitBucket nicely.  But, the API for BitBucket's bug
> > creation mechanism doesn't (currently) let you set the resolution of a
> > bug, or the milestone info.
> >
> > With the new development of Reason, Cameron and I talked about how to
> > track future changes, and the idea of using the bug tracker came up.
> > I'm a little bit skittish about using the bitbucket one unless we have
> > a full import.  But I'm willing to get over that.  So far the bug
> > tracker has really only ever been a mechanism to keep track of things,
> > never for actual bug reports.  (Maybe this will change?)  I see three
> > options for moving to bitbucket:
> >
> > 1) Import what I can, for history's sake, and then close down Trac.
> > 2) Wait for the API to be improved, and for now, don't use the
> > bugtracker anywhere.
> > 3) Give up, just start over on BitBucket, and leave Trac up but hidden.
> >
> > Can I get a real quick vote, 1/2/3?  I know that the bug tracker is
> > really never used, but I think transitioning to the BB one might
> > change that, so I want to make sure we do it right.
> >
> > Importing the Wiki is a lot easier, because we have very little
> > content in the wiki that needs to be retained.  And if we end up
> > moving the bugs out of Trac, that whole infrastructure can be
> > shuttered.
> >
> > -Matt
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