[squeak-dev] The Future of Bugs.Squeak.org?

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Fri Dec 21 21:35:05 UTC 2012


We are currently in the process of migrating all of our Internet 
services from an old server to a new one (kindly donated by Gandi.net). 
  In the process I'm re-evaluating all of the services and the software 
used to support them.

One issue I think we need to seriously evaluate as a community is our 
issue tracking mechanism.  I among others some years ago strongly 
advocated for a transition to Mantis.  I can't honestly say that that 
has been a success.  While there has been some activity on 
bugs.squeak.org in the last couple of days, there has been very very 
little in the last year and most of that is from just a handful of users.

Maintaining bugs.squeak.org has costs and the server resources we have 
are taxed by the services we are maintaining.  When I look over what we 
offer and what is used by the community, it seems like our Mantis 
instance is little valued.  Frankly I'm disinclined to set it up on the 
new server.

I want to keep this email short but I think there are many other 
alternatives that are less costly (in service resources) and that would 
hopefully get more traction in the community.

How many of you would even notice if bugs.squeak.org disappeared?

Ken





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