[Libreoffice-qa] Bugzilla replacement

[Jonathan Aquilina]

Bjoern I think that is where I think a centralized LDAP repository. if LDAP
is currently in use then the user migration shouldnt be a problem at all.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 9:34 PM, bjoern <bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 02:19:59PM -0500, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> > I've only looked at Redmine very briefly, but it does seem like an
> > interesting tool.
>
> RedMine looks very promising to me (I assume it to be at least as good as
> trac
> and I liked trac a lot) -- actually I dearly want to play with it to see
> what
> good it can do for us.
>
> That said, the majority of the work wouldnt be the bugs themselves (and
> that
> migrating that would already be huge), but also rewriting all the bazillion
> small things that glue stuff together like:
> - bug stats for the ESC
> - wiki integration
> - commit notification on bugs
> - email list forwarding
> - twitter feeds
> - adjusting common workflows
> - migrating over all current users
> - finding a sweet spot in the release cycle where this is least painful
> - .... lots of other stuff ....
>
> some of the above is just as much work as setting up RedMine and migrating
> the
> data, some of it is at least ten times as much work (namely pestering all
> our
> existing bugzilla users to migrate). So IMHO this isnt something to
> consider
> for LibreOffice the product in 2013 or 2014. Maybe later. ;)
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern
>



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Jonathan Aquilina
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