[Scummvm-devel] Pending Upgrade of Sourceforge Trackers to Allura...

[Willem Jan Palenstijn]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 08:04:37PM +0100, D G Turner wrote:
> As this link indicates, the ScummVM sourceforge trackers will be
> "upgraded" to Allura on April 22:
> https://sourceforge.net/blog/upgrades-april22/
> 
> Have the issues that caused problems during the previous reverted
> "upgrade" been fixed? Looking at some of the upgraded projects,
> it appears you can now attach files to the artifacts at least...
> 
> I just wanted to raise this for discussion so we have time to deal
> with any remaining Allura issues with the sourceforge community
> team _before_ the upgrade occurs.


Excellent point. We should definitely discuss this further. I've just talked to
SF and they agreed to delay our upgrade a little bit to avoid an upgrade during
the release testing.

Regarding the issues: some of those have been fixed, especially those related
to the actual data import. (Mangled text formatting, missing history, and a few
minor ones)

Also very importantly, the speed is much better now that some parts of the
(tracker) pages are loaded async.

I've filed a few tickets for some user interface issues too, which will
hopefully get addressed in the future.


Do any of you know of any issues remaining which would be blockers?


My personal list of annoyances includes:
* paginated comments
* attachments hard to find because they're hidden in (paginated...) comments
* inefficient layout
* lack of a search "filter"
* clumsy/unpolished user interface in general
* lack of data export/backup function


It remains an option to switch to a self-hosted Trac, but since data
export from allura is problematic, that would have to be done pre-upgrade.
The main disadvantages to such a step would be having to handle user
management, abuse/spam and hosting ourselves, of course.


-Willem Jan