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9 Nov 2024 05:28:26 EST (-0500)
  Re: What happened to the bug tracker?  
From: clipka
Date: 3 Oct 2016 16:35:16
Message: <57f2c104$1@news.povray.org>
Am 03.10.2016 um 17:26 schrieb William F Pokorny:

> The question I have is whether bugs.povray.org will now be available
> indefinitely and something we can continue to refer to on github or
> should we work to port the FlySpray issues over to github issues where
> the FS issues are still meaningful with the idea the FlySpray site will
> be going away?

So far there is no intention to shut down the FlySpray tracker, but the
incident shows that nobody is breaking a leg to keep it well-maintained
either; so I think we better prepare for it to disappear sooner or later
(probably with a whimper rather than a bang). There is no real point in
maintaining two issue trackers in parallel, and although the FlySpray
tracker is much more powerful, the GitHub issue tracker has already won
the race merely by sitting right there alongside the repo where
development happens anyway.

> Maybe some partial movement of only 3.7+ issues to github given the
> FlySpray site is valid for reporting 3.6 issues, where github is only
> valid for 3.7 onward?

When it comes to bugs that are truly 3.6-only, I guess we won't find any
volunteers to do any more maintenance on 3.6 anyway, so why even bother.

Bugs reported for 3.6 but still valid for 3.7, now that's an entirely
different matter.

If you'd be willing to port the open FlySpray issues in a useful manner,
maybe even going the extra mile (as you tend to do) and giving them a
thorough review for relevancy, at least I for one would appreciate that.


BTW, is there an e-mail address by which you can be reached? In case
you're reluctant to disclose it publicly, please drop an e-mail to
Christoph at Lipka-Koeln, dot DE.


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