[OSM-talk] Unification of OpenStreetBugs an Trac

[John07]

Marc Schütz schrieb:
> Am Mittwoch 26 November 2008 17:56:15 schrieb Steffen Vogel:
>   
>> As a user and mapper of OpenStreetMap, I often use OpenStreetBugs.
>> Unfortunatly this project is quity poor in features like:
>> - email notification
>> - duplicate handling
>> - user handling
>> - attachements (pictures, links, etc...)
>> - search
>> - filters
>> - reports, charts & statistics
>> etc.
>>
>> Bug trackers like Bugzilla can cope with these requirements a lot
>> better.
>>
>> What do you think about a migration of OpenStreetBugs to Bugzilla?
>>
>> Nevertheless OpenStreetBugs has a also some pros:
>> - simplicity
>> - integration in a slippy map and JOSM
>>
>> But I think it would'nt be hard to implement these pros to Bugzilla.
>>
>>     
>
> Bugzilla as a backend would certainly be nice, but as a frontend it is 
> obviously inappropriate. I don't know whether Bugzilla supports alternate 
> frontends; if so, it could be worthwhile building one that fits our needs.
>
> IMO the most important advantage of OSB is its ease of use: there's no login 
> required, you don't need to categorize your bug report etc. I think these 
> features are important to keep in any new bug tracker we are going to use.
>   
+1
>   
>> I've already put a installation of Bugzilla to my Server
>> (http://bugs.griesm.de) and I've done some testing around.
>> Bugzilla is coded in perl. I've some basic perl skills. But I'm afraid
>> thats not enough.
>> Perhaps we can some more expierenced perl codes here in the community?
>>
>> A migration of the other bug trackers (http://trac.openstreetmap.org) to
>> Bugzilla would ensure that we have projectwide unique Bug IDs.
>>
>>     
>
> Here I disagree: OSB is specifically targeted at users and mappers, not at 
> developers. I think it's quite okay that we have separate bug trackers for 
> these.
>   
+1
>   
>> Small an new projects without a bug tracker could use this installation.
>> I think this would lead us to a faster developement cyclus...
>>
>>     
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> That's already possible with our Trac as it is, right?
>   
I agree here too.

Jonas