[Openstreetmap] keeping trac

[SteveC]

* @ 10/11/05 10:17:10 AM lars at aronsson.se wrote:
> SteveC wrote:
> 
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/
> > With a bit of luck it can replace mediawiki, websvn and bugzilla in one.
> 
> The conversion/import script 
> http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/attachment/wiki/TracWiki/mediawiki2trac.py 
> is badly broken.  The wiki markup conversion could easily be 
> improved/fixed, but a more serious issue is that user identities 
> are not imported and page histories are lost.

Yes, the import script is simplistic. As you might have figured, I ran
it to import things and started fixing pages manually which wasn't too
hard.

> I might be the only one who uses a template -- {{city}} -- on the 
> current MediaWiki, and that would have to be rewritten as a Macro. 
> A useful import/conversion function should translate MediaWiki 
> template calls to Trac macro calls.  I could do this in Perl, but 
> I'm not fluent enough in Python.

I don't know any python either, and I like your template so we'll have
to figure out something there.

> http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/wiki/RecentChanges looks utterly 
> primitive, like something from 2001 (the year, not the movie).

Yeah I balked a little at that. It's odd because the svn diffs are very
nice:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/changeset/686

Much better than websvn.

The bug tracking and milestones are pretty and useful, better than
bugzilla.

The ability to use your OSM user/pass and the fine grained access is
nicer than mediawiki and should prevent spam if I turn off anonymous
edits.

I think all the good things so far outweigh the recent changes thing.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/