Phobos is now on dsource
Brad Roberts
braddr at puremagic.com
Sat Dec 1 12:43:10 PST 2007
Brad Anderson wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Alexander Panek wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:07:40 -0800 (PST)
>>> Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For the short term (and quite possibly long term), I don't expect to
>>>> use dsource for much more than it's svn repository. There's already
>>>> the d bugzilla instance which is doing a perfectly good job.
>>>
>>> Fair enough, but Trac is way easier to use than bugzilla. And, the
>>> probably more weighing point: it interfaces with the underlying source
>>> control in such a way that tickets can be associated to changesets and
>>> revisions. I think this is one very big advantage over bugzilla. That
>>> way it would even be possible to submit patches in tickets and see
>>> how they've been applied, etc.
>>
>> That may be, but you have to weigh that benefit against the cost of
>> having the bug database split across two trackers and/or migrating all
>> the existing bugzilla entries over to trac.
>>
>> --bb
>
> # python trac/contrib/bugzilla2trac.py
>
> Let me know if you would like to run this script on the existing BZ
> database and port existing bugs over. It isn't quite that simple, of
> course, but I've done it at a previous job.
>
> Also, I'm sure we could work something out as far as NG notifications.
>
> All of this being said, I would rather use my time in Dec, Jan, which is
> historically very active DSource work, for completing the new version of
> the site in general, as I discussed at the conference. Plus, finishing
> off Mercurial support (we are very close), and adding git support.
>
> Cheers,
> BA
No, please don't. I want to continue using the existing bugzilla instance.
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