Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] project infrastructure

[will kahn-g. <wi...@bl...>]

On Fri 02 Dec 2011 01:37:08 PM EST, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:23:03 -0500
> will kahn-greene <wi...@bl...> wrote:
>
>> Given that, switching to the github issue tracker is fine
>> and doesn't lock us in.
>
> GH issues doesn't lock us in? is that a typo or am i missing something?

You removed the context for that statement in your reply.  It doesn't 
lock us in because I don't really care about leaving issues if we 
switch trackers.


>> I don't want to use Trac, Roundup
>
> what's wrong with roundup?

Pretty sure I've talked about this already, but I'm game for iterating 
through it again.

Roundup doesn't have milestones by default.  I've added mediocre 
milestone stuff based on the original round of milestone stuff that 
Jack at OpenHatch did.  However, the urls for milestones are awful and 
generally I find the ui to be problematic.  There are bugs in Roundup 
that irritate me.  One of them is that the ExportCSV action doesn't 
check the querystring _before_ writing stuff to output.  So when it 
hits a problem, it's already written stuff to output and thus you get 
back an HTTP 200 response with gibberish in it.  The problem there is 
that Google bot and other search engines for some reason put bad stuff 
in the querystring and thus I get a ton of error emails.  I tried to 
fix this in Roundup and write up a test case, but the Roundup code is 
really funky and totally alien to me and after spending a bunch of time 
on it, I just gave up.  On top of that, I think the ui is clunky and it 
took me a day or two to figure out how to set it up.  Ipso facto, I 
find Roundup more complex than I can wrap my head around, doesn't have 
features I want out of the box, and has bugs that affect me.

/will