Re: thinking twice about the new issue tracker

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno mer 2 set 2015 alle 10:09, Urs Liska <address@hidden> ha 
scritto:
> Am 2. September 2015 07:30:09 MESZ, schrieb Federico Bruni 
> <address@hidden>:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I know that a lot of time has been invested on Allura, especially by
> > Trevor.
> > So I feel uneasy in writing this email, but I have the feeling that 
> > the
> >
> > time
> > costraint didn't help to make the best decision for the new issue
> > tracker.
> >
> > Allura doesn't seem a software which is going to have many users: 
> > poor
> > user
> > interface, impenetrable documentation (as Phil defined it and I 
> > agree).
> > At the same time, the interim solution (hosting on Sourceforge) has 
> > the
> >
> > ads/privacy
> > problem.
>
> Ok, but this is a temporary problem, isn't it?

Yes, but I was thinking about using an interim solution for some months 
to have some more time to evaluate the self-hosted solutions. 
Sourceforge would not be the best interim solution.

And Allura can import from Github, I think.

> > What if we take some time to evaluate other alternatives and in the
> > meanwhile
> > we use Bitbucket or Github? Not Free services, I know, but at least
> > their
> > business model seems honest.
> > Any issue tracker will be able to import from Github/Bitbucket, as
> > these are
> > the most used services nowadays.
> >
> > I tested the Google Code Issue Exporter on a private repository on
> > bitbucket
> > and it seems to work fine. Very quick, because the attachments are 
> > just
> > linked: you see the image inline in the issue, but the actual file is
> > not
> > in the bitbucket database, it's a link to storage.googleapi.com. As
> > long as
> > Google doesn't delete these files in the future, this should be fine.
> >
> > Regarding the alternatives, I found Gogs, which seems really 
> > promising:
> > http://gogs.io/
> > https://github.com/gogits/gogs/
>
> But this doesn't change the https issue.

I'm not concerned about the https issue. I'm concerned about the Allura 
usability and the work on the API/patchy stuff which Phil started 
recently.

> > The user interface is very similar to github. See for example:
> > https://try.gogs.io/galaxycui28/init.el/issues/1
> >
> > The problem is that migrating from Github/Bitbucket is not currently
> > possible:
> > https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/809
>
> What about importing from the current *SF) Allura solution?

Hopefully