[Zope-CMF] Re: CMF collector on Launchpad?

Hanno Schlichting plone at hannosch.info
Mon Aug 13 04:49:36 EDT 2007


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> Andreas Jung is in the process of getting the regular Zope 2 issue
> collector moved onto Launchpad. He said the Launchpad guys could move
> other collectors like the CMF collector at the same time. The question
> is, do we want this?
> 
> My vote is "-0.5", mostly because I never used Launchpad. One drawback
> that was mentioned is the fact that bugtracker emails do not contain the
> full bug history. From other bugtracker experience I know that's very
> annoying.
> 
> Andreas mentioned some arguments for the move, like having the same user
> base on all those collectors, the ability to move bugs between them, and
> a much better user interface than the sometimes odd collector UI.
> 
> What's the consensus?

I'm +0.5 on moving away from anything on zope.org. I find the collector
UI and speed suboptimal to work with. Launchpad provides a reasonable
good bug tracker from my experience (I mostly reported bugs against the
launchpad translation system itself in the past ;)).

Personally I find trac a lot more efficient to work with, though. But
it's UI is definitely geared towards developers (which is in the end the
prime target group for CMF).

I'll dare to speak out the unthinkable and as an alternative option
suggest to move the CMF bug tracker to a trac instance hosted on plone.org.

A common user database between the Plone and CMF bug trackers is a
bigger benefit than the common user base between CMF and Zope I think.
But maybe our two communities still don't overlap enough for that idea
to work out ;)

Hanno



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