[Adium-devl] The evils of Trac (was: Re: [Adium-feedback] Fwd: ContactUs - Adium X - Trac)

[Colin Barrett]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 3:02 PM, James Cox wrote:

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> On 27 Sep 2006, at 01:34, Colin Barrett wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:25 PM, James Cox wrote:
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>>> On 27 Sep 2006, at 01:13, Colin Barrett wrote:
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>>>> On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
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>>>>> bugzilla - ugh. The macports guys are moving away from this to  
>>>>> trac.
>>>>> I also believe this requires registration by the user.
>>>>> simpleticket - too early to use it. Plus it requires registration.
>>>>> Mantis - Actually wouldn't be too bad. Requires either a user  
>>>>> account
>>>>> to be made, or usage of anonymantis. Which has no spam protection.
>>>>> The other 30-40 options: 9/10 require user registration that I  
>>>>> have
>>>>> found.
>>>>>
>>>>> Point is though, they all have problems. I don't know of any  
>>>>> (doesn't
>>>>> mean there aren't any) that integrate as well with svn though.
>>>>
>>>> There's one you didn't mention: Jira. ccgus has been raving about  
>>>> it. It costs money, but we might be able to get them to donate a  
>>>> license or something. You can check it out at http://flyingmeat.com/jira/
>>>
>>> last time i remembered checking it out, jira requires a java  
>>> env... I think that'll be a dealbreaker for me :)
>>
>> Jira is in Java, yes. Why is this a dealbreaker?
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>
> of course it's not a massive dealbreaker, but i'm mindful of having  
> a JVM+more instance hanging around.... especially since i think  
> everyone is trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist..
>
> however, i do know staff at atlassian and can probably get a jira  
> license or three donated.....

Well, lets see how things go with the trac registration plugin, and  
possibly using Google searching instead of the built in search. Then  
we'll go from there. Sound good, everyone?

-Colin