[Scummvm-devel] SF.net tracker vs. trac

Kostas Nakos knakos at phys.uoa.gr
Thu Oct 22 12:42:58 CEST 2009


On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:26:09 +0200
Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
> I know that some people here have rather negative feelings about
> trac; my own feelings are mixed, too, but I feel that it has quite
> some advantages over SF.net's tracker... But I thought it best to
> mention this possibility here, to hear whether people are interested
> in this or not.

I use trac at work and I too think it's semi-decent, although
surprisingly good sometimes :-) But it surely beats sf.net's tracker.

> My personal dream actually would be to migrate to a custom Bugzilla  
> (or something like that), hosted at say bugs.scummvm.org, with an  
> OpenID auth plugin installed, so that many people can use it w/o  
> having to register accounts.

That would be even better.

> Unfortunately, there seems to be no automated way to migrate
> existing tracker data in this scenario. Not even the currently open
> tracker items. :/

This is indeed a really big (i.e. time consuming) problem :-(

Best,
Kostas




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