As a user, you have my vote in favour of migrating the bug tracker. ...preferably to something based on Bugzilla or JIRA or to GitHub or BitBucket. If possible, please avoid MantisBT and Trac. I remember finding the former annoying (though not as much as SourceForge) and I could never trust the latter to protect my e-mail from spammers.
Both Bugzilla and JIRA support the kind of detail you'd want. I don't know about BitBucket's custom JIRA instance though. I don't even report bugs on SourceForge trackers anymore because my time is valuable and I have such strong and consistent memories of: 1. Fiddling with an awkward system that makes it much harder than it needs to be to add new attachments and has strange gotchas. 2. Having every bug I ever filed get closed, not by the developers, but by SourceForge's "Your bug is old. We're auto-closing it." cronjob. 3. Getting confusing e-mails which waste my time forcing me to: 3.1. Double-check that the e-mail isn't a non-optional "for your records" copy of something I posted. 3.2. Muddle through the ugly "1+meta, n, n-1, n-2, ..., 3, 2"-ordered thread dump so I can just read the one bit I care about: What changed since last time. I did talk to someone from SourceForge and they're apparently fine with having a project split between SF.net and another host like GitHub or BitBucket. (Apparently OAuth integration with such sites is already on their roadmap.) On 13-04-17 08:20 PM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Hello! > > The sourceforge.net recently migrates to new platform named Allura. > They offered to migrate earlier and now they want to migrate everyone. > Unfortunately, the new platform is more toy than tool. The GIT browser is > bloated and slow, still have part of information hidden. The bugtracker > is simplified a lot, with 'Category' field removed (so no possibility to > filter lxdm bugs from lxpanel ones and so on anymore), without a filter > chooser (there is a possibility to set a filter but it requires a lot of > keyboard typing and tracker inspection to set a simple filter). And that > I found just by a short look, there may be some more problems. So may be > we will need a migration out from sourceforge if they wouldn't leave old > platform still running for selected projects. We have GIT, bugtracker, > and mailing lists hosted at sourceforge. The migration of bugtracker can > be a headache though. > > Any thoughts on this? > > With best wishes. > Andriy. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Pcmanfm-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pcmanfm-develop
