Gnome dropping Bugzilla

[Eric Theise]

I'm a fan of the IDEs produced by JetBrains (RubyMine, PyCharm, et al.) but
admit upfront that I have not worked with their tracking product, YouTrack.
Worth a look though? Free hosting for open source projects.

Bug and Issue Tracking overview
https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/features/issue_tracking.html

Searching for Issues video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzkKcG7KIhI&index=23&list=PLQ176FUIyIUbGE728KezWz1J15fHW0S_m

Import from Bugzilla
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/incloud/7.0/Import-from-Bugzilla.html

Free Open Source licensing
https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/?product=youtrack

other Demos and Screencasts
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUbGE728KezWz1J15fHW0S_m

Eric


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 12:56 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> As I think everyone knows, we use bugzilla.gnome.org <
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> for bug and enhancement tracking.
>
> There's a new banner on every BZ page saying that Gnome plans to drop
> Bugzilla and the CGit repository browser, replacing them with Gitlab.
>
> That isn't going to work for us. I don't think it's going to work for
> Gnome, either, because a bug tracker that can't do word searches isn't
> capable of managing thousands of open bugs (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/
> user/search/index.html <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/index.html>),
> but that's not our problem. Our problem is that with our repository not at
> git.gnome.org <http://git.gnome.org/> there won't be a GnuCash project in
> GitLab and so there won't be a bug tracker. We'll need to get a new one.
>
> Since we do mirror our repos to Github it is a viable option and it does
> at least have better search facilities (or at least they're better
> documented) that Gitlab, see https://help.github.com/
> articles/searching-issues-and-pull-requests/ <https://help.github.com/
> articles/searching-issues-and-pull-requests/>. It lacks many other
> features of BZ: All categorization and status tracking is by "labels" and
> they have no inherent hierarchy or organization.
>
> So I think we're going to need our own bugtracker.
>
> BZ is Free and it should be fairly simple to get the Gnome bug team to
> ship us a dump of our part of the database and set up a redirect once we
> have our instance up and running. The web display on whatever it is that
> GNU uses (e.g. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=guile <
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=guile>) but I dislike that it is
> operated entirely by email. Mantis is popular but is managed by a bug list.
> It's filterable to a fare-thee-well but lacks controlled vocabularies on
> many of its fields so managing a large number of open bugs is a PITA. RT
> (used by perl's CPAN) is also completely email driven. Trac is a little
> less rudimentary than Github--it at least has categories and status fields,
> but I don't believe it's capable of managing thousands of bugs.
> SourceForge's built in tracker is on the same level as Github's with less
> capable search.
>
> There's a sort of conceptual timeline on the DevelopmentInfrastructure
> page but nothing concrete. I'd guess we have at least several months and
> perhaps as long as a year to have a replacement up and running.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
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