I can only agree, that redmine is much better than trac, but, it is
written it ruby and so it is more tricky to setup (for python-people
at least).

But the result is worth it.

Jachym

2011/7/10 Volker Fröhlich <[email protected]>:
> QGIS recently switched from SVN to Git and from OSGeo to Github. They also
> migrated their bug tracker from Trac to Redmine.
>
> A couple of people were involved in the migration. You might want to ask Tim
> Sutton about what problems they encountered.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Volker
>
> Am Samstag, 9. Juli 2011, 22:07:27 schrieb Sean Gillies:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My server that hosts the gispython.org site and services runs on
>> Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, which has reached its end of life. I'm facing a
>> fair amount of work in migrating my personal stuff, and more in
>> migrating the various code repositories and trac instances that we've
>> been sharing. I invite you to question with me whether migrating the
>> gispython.org Subversion repos and Trac instances and databases is
>> worth the effort.
>>
>> When Kai and I started collaborating in 2005, we agreed that
>> Sourceforge wasn't for us. There weren't any clear alternatives at the
>> time (this was before OSGeo and long before Bitbucket and GitHub) and
>> I was fired up to learn how to deploy Subversion, so we set up our own
>> development infrastructure. Now, of course, there are many excellent
>> alternatives to Sourceforge with features that the gispython.org
>> infrastructure can't match. I'm thinking specifically of GitHub's fork
>> and merge buttons, and Gists. Whether you agree with them or not, to
>> an increasingly large crowd of programmers, it doesn't count if it's
>> not on GitHub (or Bitbucket or Google Code if you will). The harder I
>> look at migrating the gispython.org stuff, the more I think that all
>> we get for the price of migration is just more obscurity,
>> marginalization, and eventual stagnation of the projects.
>>
>> Howard has taken the Spatialindex and Rtree projects to GitHub.
>> Shapely is already there. The various zgeo.* packages I propose to
>> either move to the Pleiades SVN or merge into Plone's collective.geo.
>> The only other active and therefore seriously impacted project is
>> OWSLib. Dear OWSLib developers: would you be willing to take the
>> project to Google Code or OSGeo (to keep SVN) or to GitHub or
>> Bitbucket (necessarily switching RCS) in the next month or so?
>
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