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Hi all, On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 21:48:24 +0300 Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > The ticketing system Perl 5 Porters are using is close to 20 years old. > In internal discussions, it has become clear that this system, which > suffers from 15+ years of grown complexity, cannot be maintained moving > forward. This means we need to find a way forward. > > > Over the past year, we had numerous conversations with stakeholders in > the core to understand our needs. We have reviewed alternatives and > determined that GitHub provides us with the most features with the least > overhead, allowing us to keep as much as we can of our current setup. > Being the market leader for open source hosting, it also significantly > lowers the bar for new contributors, who will already know how the > tooling works. > > > For this reason, we wish to move all Perl 5 RT tickets (open and closed) > over to https://github.com/Perl/perl5. > > > As part of this work, we're moving our Perl 5 Git hosting to GitHub. Any > necessary customizations, as well as the correct permissions, will be > moved there as well. This work will include regular backups of the > repository and issues to prevent any loss during and after the transition. > > > To prevent death by bikeshed, we intend to have discussions for two > weeks, allowing us to move forward with implementation and work out > kinks long before the December freeze for 5.32.0. > > > We will follow up with a Q&A on the differences. We request additional > comments be sent to this thread or directly to me. > my 2 cents: Personally, I am happy with using github. However, I can relate to those who have a problem with its ToS, dependence on JS, or similar. If our only issue is the issue/bug tracker, then perhaps we should deploy one of the alternatives here: * https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/software-tools/ * http://linas.org/linux/pm.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_systems I do not have a strong preference for or against any bug tracker as they all work fairly well for me. Regards, Shlomi > > Sawyer X, Perl 5 Pumpking. > > > Endorsed by: > > Abigail > > Ask Bjørn Hansen > > Jim Keenan > > Nicolas R. (atoomic) > > Robert Spier > > Todd Rinaldo > > Karl Williamson > > Dave Mitchell > > Tony Cook > > Yves Orton -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality I achieved my fast times by multitudes of 1% reductions. — Bill Raymond in https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/fc-solve-discuss/conversations/messages/222 Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .Thread Previous | Thread Next