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

Subject: Re: [boost] [GIT] What happens to the Trac?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-17 14:45:12

on Mon Dec 17 2012, Julian Gonggrijp <j.gonggrijp-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

1. We shouldn't make too many changes all at once
2. Fragmentation

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