Re: thinking twice about the new issue tracker

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno gio 3 set 2015 alle 11:07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> ha
> scritto:
>> "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>  Federico, you wrote Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:24 AM
>>>
>>>>  It took about 10 hours. You can see the result here:
>>>>  https://github.com/fedelibre/lilyissues/issues
>>>
>>>  It's a pity you didn't do this a couple of months ago so we could
>>>  have compared Github with Allura properly.  It's a bit late now.
>>
>> Well, I do prefer self-hosting since it means nobody can pull the rug
>> from under us like Google did.  And GitHub's software does not allow
>> that.
>
> This test was made just to consider an interim solution (as an
> alternative to Sourceforge).

Well, nobody wanted to use Sourceforge in the first place.  But time was
running out on us, and migrating to Allura should be straightforward
from there.

> But I see that the decision is using Allura.

Well, who does the work gets to call the shots.  At any rate, as a GNU
project there was sort of the goal to decrease the dependency on GitHub,
a closed service.  I'll readily admit that I'd have wished for stuff to
go smoother and faster but reality sometimes interferes and takes some
time to change.

-- 
David Kastrup