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

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2005 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 22:44:22 UTC 2012




On 12/21/12 6:35 PM, "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.
> 
> 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


Me and sure more.
I paying some services to ATSPACE.COM so could put stuff , contact me
private.

Edgar




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