[Scummvm-devel] Evaluating GitHub issues tracker

[Johannes Schickel]

On 04/23/2011 12:43 PM, Alex Bevilacqua wrote:
> This might be a good opportunity to look into a separate issue 
> tracking solution entirely that isn't tied to a specific source 
> control solution (github or sourceforge). I mentioned Redmine in the 
> past simply because I've been using it for a couple years now and find 
> it extremely versatile, but there are others that may fit the bill 
> (Trac, Assembla, Lighthouse, Mantis).

In fact we had several discussions about it in the past, but I never saw 
any real outcome.

I furthermore do not see how exactly the sf.net tracker is tied to a 
"source control solution". Maybe you care to explain that a little bit 
to me? Thanks in advance. In fact I really liked the fact that you can 
close issues via commit messages in github and also have the issues get 
a comment with a link to the commit which closed it, that seemed so much 
nicer than always doing that on your own.

The sf.net tracker might have gotten a bit worse over the years, but it 
still seems *ok* to me. At least we can continue to use it without any 
real effort and I for one do not see too much reason to switch right now 
either.

>
> Some are hosted, some you host yourself (which would be preferable as 
> you have more control over the branding).
>

I am not sure whether we have anyone willing to maintain a tracker 
system for us, I guess not too many people are interested in always 
looking into integrating security patch etc. ;-). So I am not sure 
whether hosting it ourselves really is an option.

// Johannes