[Geany-Devel] Geany bug hunting week

[Frank Lanitz]

Am 10.04.2014 09:37, schrieb Lex Trotman:
> On 10 April 2014 17:20, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> On 14-04-09 12:32 PM, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 23:19:52 +0400
>>> Pavel Roschin <roshin at scriptumplus.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good point to create accessible bug tracker for Geany:) AFAIK you
>>>> don't want use GitHub Issues so people report bugs elsewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>> sf is working for 99,9% of people ok ... ;)
> 
> Well, only 99.9% of the people that actually manage to make
> bug/feature requests.  We just don't hear from the rest. :(
> 
>>>
>>
>> It's often not working right for me, losing comments, and being really slow.
>>
> 
> Agree SF is terribly slow.
> 
>>
>>> (Sorry, github is the same stupid vendor locking as SF is. I will not
>>> move from one tracker with issues to another. Maybe sometime somebody
>>> will have the time to setup a own instance, it would be good. But to be
>>> honest, I didn't see some just working solution for years. They all
>>> suck at some point)
>>>
> 
> Yes, all bug trackers suck in some way.  Anybody wanna make a Geany
> bugtracker plugin? ;-)
> 
>>
>> You can freely export bug tracker stuff out of both sourceforge and github,
>> neither one really locks you in.
> 
> Yes both can export JSON, and github can import it (I didn't look at
> SF import, I want out not in :-).
> 
> Simply use your favourite scripting language (eg Python) to convert
> one to the other.
> 
> 
>>
>> The thing with Github is you get better integration with source code, like
>> closing bugs from commit messages, closing bugs when associated PRs are
>> closed, linking with source code, and also it means users don't have to have
>> to have multiple logins and stuff (same could be said for using Github wikis
> 
> And github website, then Geany would only need its own server for sweetgeany :)

github is not free -- even I like that page too. So who will sign, that
you will be able to epxort bugs etc. in maybe 1 year, 2 years? This is
what I mean when I say vendor lockin.

Cheers,
Frank