On 11/17/2017 06:37 AM, Daniel Schürmann wrote: > Here it is hard to rule GitHub. Nearly every developer has a GitHub > account, and it is just click to clone Mixxx and starting to > contribute.
GitLab does offer login with a GitHub account, FWIW. > For Launchpad bug, suffers the same. Registering a second account is > anoying, and stops user from filing bugs. On that note, I'm working on consolidating logins as much as possible. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1732715 My plan is to get down to two: Launchpad and GitHub. (Because neither of those allow authentication from another provider.) > On the other Hand Launchpad has our history, and no other tool offers > the same rich bug states, that we have adopted in our process. To wit, we started using LP for bug tracking even before we moved the code there. > We have hundreds cross linkes, between GitHub, Forum, Wiki, and > Launchpad. Losing this had to be well considered compared to some > missing convenient features. I totally agree. Never mind the work it would take to do a migration, work that would be better spent on Mixxx itself, IMO. So the question is: how much more productive would we be if bug and blueprint tracking was integrated with code hosting? Put another way, how much is the current separation impairing productivity? (Keep in mind that Launchpad supports Git now, so it would be possible to move code hosting back there, solving this particular concern.) > Filing Bug inside Mixxx would be the most convenient solution. Sure. The only problem is that we would have no way to communicate back to the user (since the bug filer would be a bot account) without having to create a separate E-mail thread. That would be quite a step backwards, especially since it's not hard (anymore) to create an LP account. (Plus if we make it too easy to file, we'll get low-quality bug reports.) We already have the "submit feedback" Google form which seems to be working well as it has hundreds of responses. (I need to check on how to publish them.) And indeed some are not useful. > Launchpad offers to communicate via email. Maybe there is a solution > to send Emails from Mixxx to Launchpad? Even better, it has a full Web API: https://help.launchpad.net/API/ (Which could be used for migration too.) Sincerely, Sean M. Pappalardo "D.J. Pegasus" Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist
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