Subject: Re: [boost] [partly OT] Re: [review queue] What to do about the library review queue?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-16 18:55:21


On 3/16/17 11:01 AM, Stefan Seefeld via Boost wrote:
> On 16.03.2017 13:35, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
>> On 03/16/17 18:01, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
>>> Niall Douglas wrote:
>>>> On 16/03/2017 12:10, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Glen Fernandes via Boost
>>>>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>> ...until we truly move to Github Issues
>>>>>
>>>>> What needs to be done in order to make this happen?
>>>>
>>>> A decision needs to be taken on how best to port the Trac issues into
>>>> github.
>>>
>>> This implies that we want to port the Trac issues into Github. This is
>>> not a requirement. The 'organic' way to migrate to new things is just to
>>> move on. Trac is legacy; leave it in read-only mode so that history is
>>> preserved, but there's no need to do anything else.
>>
>> If we move to GitHub issues, I would rather have all open tickets
>> moved from Trac there. Leaving them open in read-only Trac is not
>> useful, and you can't request the reporters to duplicate the tickets
>> on GitHub.
>>
>> All open tickets should preferably be in one place.
>
> Why not let individual project / library maintainers decide how to
> implement the move (or whether they want to move to github issues at all ?)
>
> Stefan

I think this is a very worthy idea. But I get PRs as well as trac
issues. Hmmm is there a way to diable the PR mechanism on git and just
link to the trac archive?

Robert Ramey