Re: [boost] [GIT] What happens to the Trac?

Subject: Re: [boost] [GIT] What happens to the Trac?
From: Julian Gonggrijp (j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-17 14:30:47

Dave Abrahams wrote:

> on Mon Dec 17 2012, Julian Gonggrijp wrote:
> 
>> Why not switch to the GitHub issue tracker? That should be nicely 
>> integrated with Git.
> 
> The most obvious reasons:
> 
> 1. We shouldn't make too many changes all at once
> 
> 2. Existing links and references in commit messages would all break 
> 
> 3. Someone would need to import all the Trac issues into the GH tracker
> 
> 4. There's actually one tracker per repository, which potentially
>   complicates the transition a lot.

All valid points, but what's wrong with keeping trac for the old 
issues while requesting (or perhaps just encouraging, initially) that 
people submit new issues to the GitHub tracker?