Re: [boost] [Master project] Switch from Trac to another Bug-tracking-system

Subject: Re: [boost] [Master project] Switch from Trac to another Bug-tracking-system
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-04 03:29:06

> This plugin for trac (https://github.com/trac-hacks/trac-github)
> claims to provide github integration for trac and to enable github
> logins for trac login.
>
> I'd say you'd need to upgrade trac from v0.12 (what we have) to v1.x
> at the least.

Almost certainly, we need an experienced sys-admin to do it ;)
>> Meanwhile.... I think I've solved the captcha issue (at least for IE).
>> We'll have to see whether it results in a flood of spam or not, can't
>> figure out the slow response times though.... and they are *very* bad at
>> present.
>>
>> BTW, while Git issues look rather primitive, they appear to do pretty
>> much everything that the current TRAC system does?  How the heck you
>> would migrate from one to the other is a whole other can of worms though....
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6671584/how-to-export-trac-to-gith
> ub-issues has an apparently very good solution.
>
> I think the very hard part would be mapping all boost logins to
> github accounts. It would be tedious, though maybe the ryppl effort
> could save a ton of time.
>
> The other thing is that I feel hesitant loading all one's crown
> jewels into github. It is a commercial company which could backfire
> on those too reliant on it one day.
+1, that worries me also.

John.