[OSM-talk] Proposal for a map-bug tracker (Openstreetbugs)

[Douglas Furlong]

2008/11/28 Patrick Kilian <osm at petschge.de>

> Hi,
>
> > It would be nice if we could decide on one solution instead of
> > implementing two competing ones. So, it would be good to have a look at
> > the advantages and disadvantages of a bugzilla and a rails-port
> > solution and decide then which one fits best. Perhaps which should also
> > ask the software developers how they feel about moving from trac to
> > bugzilla. This seemed to be one of your main points for using bugzilla.
> I'm not a big developer, but I do try to improve the OSM software stack
> (mostly t at h client and maplint) and I get to own all the osmarender bugs
> in trac. From that perspective I have to say that I really dislike
> bugzilla and that I was really glad when I found out that OSM uses trac
> for its bugtracking. Unless we find a REALLY compelling reason to switch
> I'd stay with trac.
>
> I'd rather have a seperated bugzilla for tracking bugs in the data and a
> trac for tracking bugs in the software. At that point I should probably
> add that it would be a good thing if we could migrate all the user
> databases to one single location and do authentication against that.
>

Fedora has spent a lot of time implementing a central authentication system
through which all of their environment authenticate.

I think the level to which Fedora went is far beyond what we would need, but
setting up an LDAP directory to store authentication credentials would be
fairly straight forward.

I'd be willing to spend time to look at implementing some thing like this,
if their is a desire from the community.
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