Subject: Re: [boost] [GIT] What happens to the Trac?
From: Julian Gonggrijp (j.gonggrijp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-17 14:30:47
Dave Abrahams wrote:
> on Mon Dec 17 2012, Julian Gonggrijp wrote:
>
>> Why not switch to the GitHub issue tracker? That should be nicely
>> integrated with Git.
>
> The most obvious reasons:
>
> 1. We shouldn't make too many changes all at once
>
> 2. Existing links and references in commit messages would all break
>
> 3. Someone would need to import all the Trac issues into the GH tracker
>
> 4. There's actually one tracker per repository, which potentially
> complicates the transition a lot.
All valid points, but what's wrong with keeping trac for the old
issues while requesting (or perhaps just encouraging, initially) that
people submit new issues to the GitHub tracker?