[Scummvm-devel] Evaluating GitHub issues tracker

[Johannes Schickel]

On 04/26/2011 12:52 PM, Max Horn wrote:
>
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>> Also it seems to allow to filter by selecting labels and I
>> would *guess* that you can select two labels and only issues tagged with
>> both are shown.
> Yes you can do that.
>
> However, I don't yet see how the system scales (unlike multi-value fields in e.g. Google Code, or Mantis, or Trac, etc.). For ScummVM, we might want to have labels for
> * engines
> * games
> * platforms
> * bug severity
> * bug priority
> at the very least.
> Now, I imagine we could use distinct colors for each type. And it's nice to be able to filter by those etc.
>
> But the above amounts to well over 100 different labels. I have serious doubts that this will be very usable in their UI...  but maybe I am missing something?
>

I am not sure about that either, I guess one could give certain labels 
the same color? So say all our engines/game labels would have a red one etc.

I am not sure how to properly handle the priority though.

>> That seems better nicer than what sf.net's tracker
>> features IMHO, but I didn't check that in depth yet.
> IMHO it is better in some ways, and worse in others. Seeing that other tracker vendors manage to be better in every way than SF.net, that makes github less appealing to me...

Maybe, anyway I am not sure myself whether we really have any benefit 
from switching at all currently.

// Johannes