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

[Alex Bevilacqua]

Just to throw my two cents in here:

I sent Max an email a few days ago to recommend Redmine (www.redmine.org). I
meant to copy the group, but forgot. Honestly, it's easy to use, quite
versatile, and even allows you to create direct links between SCM revisions
and issues (tickets), so you can monitor progress of an issue directly back
to the relevant commits.

You can roll various issues into milestones (like with Trac) and and it even
integrates with pretty much every SCM under the sun (Subversion, Darcs,
Mercurial, Cvs, Bazaar and Git)

The only downside I guess is that it's an RoR app, so the hosting server
needs ruby (don't think that SF.net provides this).

Just throwing that out there .... ;)

Alex

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

> If you want to play a little bit with Trac and Mantis, here are test
> installs of the SF.net hosted apps for us. Feel free to create test
> issues etc. (WE can wipe it and start over from scratch at a later
> point).
>
> Trac: <https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/scummvm/>
> Mantis: <https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/scummvm/>
>
> For Redmine or BugZilla or JIRA, we'd have to host it externally. Of
> course the same could be done with Mantis or Trac. But using the
> SF.net hostedapps would have some advantages. I'll try to list some
> pros and cons, though the list is far from complete.
>
> SF.net hostedapps:
> * Pro: Every SF.net user can make reports while logged in, no need for
> us to manage users
> * Pro: For Trac, they'd help with the data migration
> * Pro: We don't have to do any admin work.
> * Con: At least currently, it seems to be rather slow
> * Con: We'd be limited in what we can tweaks (e.g. installing addons,
> custom theming, etc.)
>
> Custom install:
> * Pro: we could use an arbitrary URL, such as bugs.scummvm.org
> * Pro AND Con: We'd have the ability & the necessity to do our own
> user management
> * Pro: We could do a custom theme
> * Con: somebody would have to maintain this application
>  -> 100% flexibility with all its pros and cons ;)
>
> As for which system to us, I feel that for a developer, Bugzilla is
> really great, but for end users, it is rather complicated,
> overwhelming and outright scary to use. I also here that it's not very
> pleasant to install and manage.
>
> Compared to this, the other projects seem make an effort to be more
> user friendly. I'd say Mantis, Trac and Redmine succeed, I can't
> really comment on JIRA at this time due to lack of experience. What I
> dislike about Trac on SF.net is that I don't see a way to add custom
> fields. This is, however, possible with Mantis. I like Mantis so far,
> but wonder how well it can import stuff. Need to do some more research
> on that.
>
> Some people expressed that they "hate" Trac on IRC at some point. I'd
> like to know how serious that was, and whether there are specific
> reasons for that.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
>
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