On 21 December 2012 21:35, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> How many of you would even notice if bugs.squeak.org disappeared?

I would, but you already know that :)

I know the pain of keeping Mantis+PHP+MySQL running, and if there are
alternatives that are less onerous to maintain, all the better. One
possibility is starting a project on github, actually: its tracker is
simple, and not completely terrible.

frank

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