[Scons-dev] Bugtracker and stuff...

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi there,

>

> I'm currently wading through our issue list at tigris.org, trying to clean

> things up a little (closing resolved bugs and such...). Sorry, if this

> creates some noise on the corresponding mailing list...

>

> I found issue #2739, which is in state "STARTED" but assigned to

> "issues at scons"...so nobody effectively. I think that only "NEW" or

> "REOPENED" issues should be assigned to "issues at scons", leaving the question

> how to resolve this? Can someone take it?

>

> Further stirring up old topics ;), I pondered over the bugtracker migration

> task again. For the issue interface to OpenHatch, I now have a bug importer

> ready. It's capable of scraping our whole issue database (2947+ issues) from

> tigris.org to a single JSON file in about 7 minutes.

>>

>> From there it wouldn't be much effort to push all the data via xmlrpc

>

> into a roundup ( http://www.roundup-tracker.org ) instance, for example. I'm

> not sure what our options are for adding new "services" to our web hosting.

> But roundup allegedly runs standalone, as well as via "mod_python", using

> WSGI or through CGI. Maybe we could host this ourselves?

> Even if it's just to get away from Tigris *now*...as a first step. We might

> have to migrate further, later on. But then we're in a much better position

> (Python-based tracker, support for xmlrpc) to pull all our data out again,

> and convert it into a possibly new format.


This is a great start.  Thanks for doing it!  My preference would be a
hosted bugtracker though, just because it's one less thing to manage
(keep patched, ensure uptime etc.).  Also, a minor point, but people
may have more familiarity with the big hosted ones.  Now, that said, I
don't really have much experience with any of them that I like.  So if
roundup is nice, hosting it ourselves wouldn't be all that terrible.
I'm pretty sure Pair, our current host, can do mod_python.

Ideally we'd have a stable tracker so we could put bug links into
commit messages, and mailing lists, and they'd still work 10 years
from now.  But that may be an impossible dream. :-)

As for #2739, I see I was involved in that.  I tried to get the OP to
write a test but that apparently was pushing a little too hard for him
at the time.  I guess I should take it.  The batch-mode fixes in there
are quite valuable.

-- Gary