On Monday, April 30, 2012, Travis Oliphant wrote: > Hey all, > > We have been doing some investigation of various approaches to issue > tracking. The last time the conversation left this list was with > Ralf's current list of preferences as: > > 1) Redmine > 2) Trac > 3) Github > > Since that time, Maggie who has been doing a lot of work settting up > various issue tracking tools over the past couple of months, has set up a > redmine instance and played with it. This is a possibility as a future > issue tracker. > > However, today I took a hard look at what the IPython folks are doing with > their issue tracker and was very impressed by the level of community > integration that having issues tracked by Github provides. Right now, we > have a major community problem in that there are 3 conversations taking > place (well at least 2 1/2). One on Github, one on this list, and one on > the Trac and it's accompanying wiki. > > I would like to propose just using Github's issue tracker. This just > seems like the best move overall for us at this point. I like how the > Pull Request mechanism integrates with the issue tracking. We could > setup a Redmine instance but this would just re-create the same separation > of communities that currently exists with the pull-requests, the mailing > list, and the Trac pages. Redmine is nicer than Trac, but it's still a > separate space. We need to make Github the NumPy developer hub and not > have it spread throughout several sites. > > The same is true of SciPy. I think if SciPy also migrates to use Github > issues, then together with IPython we can really be a voice that helps > Github. I will propose to NumFOCUS that the Foundation sponsor migration > of the Trac to Github for NumPy and SciPy. If anyone would like to be > involved in this migration project, please let me know. > > Comments, concerns? > > -Travis
Would it be possible to use the combined clout of the scipy packages as a way to put some weight behind feature requests to github? Ben Root
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