Dylan Jay <d...@pretaweb.com> writes: > On 09/02/2012, at 6:42 AM, Jon Stahl wrote: > >> Hi all- >> >> A hypothetical question for all of you add-on product developers out >> there... >> >> I am doing some high-level thinking (which I will be sharing soon) >> about the future architecture for add-on product data in plone.org, >> and one question that's occurred to me is whether we are at a point >> where we can deprecate our POI issue trackers in favor of >> externally-hosted issue trackers, such as those provided by Github. >> >> Is anybody on this list still actively using their POI/PSC issue >> tracker on plone.org? If we were to set a "deprecation date" with, >> say, a couple months' notice, would that pose a major hardship? >> >> I'd love to hear your thoughts. To repeat: no decisions have been >> made, I'm just floating a trial balloon. > > What problem are you trying to solve by removing them? > If they aren't creating a maintenance nightmare for plone.org > maintainers and product owners can have the option of specifying an > external bug-tracker (which I believe they do) then isn't more trouble > removing them than keeping them?
Every bit of software we use on plone.org has to be supported and maintained by core plone developers. I can attest to the cost of this having worked on upgrading older AT add-ons to support stuff on *.plone.org. IOW, every bit of software we use on plone.org demands energy from the developer community comparable to maintaining core plone itself, not a small cost. So I think it's the kind of situation where while it may cost more today to deprecate, it absolutely costs more over time. Poi has been given a good long life and I think it's very appropriate and wise to start the end-of-life process for it's availability on plone.org (to be clear, has nothing to do with Poi's life outside of plone.org). I think the other big win here would be a better overall add-on experience for our users by using an external, more feature-ful and more mature issue tracker. Thanks for pursuing this, Jon. Ross _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list product-develop...@lists.plone.org https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-product-developers
