http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/171 is a nice writeup (thanks Scott) of wineconf.
It all sounds good except for that switching to redmine part... The current wiki and bugzilla are working reasonably well, doesn't seem worth the disruption to switch. I'm highly skeptical of these newfangled wiki+bugzilla+scm+mailinglist thingies. It's really hard to do all those jobs well. Sourceforge was the first, and it was really rough. Google Code is kind of ok, but it doesn't support git yet, and its svn has performance issues (for the moment). Launchpad is also kind of ok, and kind of supports git... Yet Another WBSM Thingy that I've never heard of seems unlikely to be as robust as the above systems. - Dan
2009/11/19 Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com:
http://yokozar.org/blog/archives/171 is a nice writeup (thanks Scott) of wineconf.
It all sounds good except for that switching to redmine part... The current wiki and bugzilla are working reasonably well, doesn't seem worth the disruption to switch. I'm highly skeptical of these newfangled wiki+bugzilla+scm+mailinglist thingies. It's really hard to do all those jobs well. Sourceforge was the first, and it was really rough. Google Code is kind of ok, but it doesn't support git yet, and its svn has performance issues (for the moment). Launchpad is also kind of ok, and kind of supports git... Yet Another WBSM Thingy that I've never heard of seems unlikely to be as robust as the above systems.
- Dan
You might well be pleasantly surprised. We've been using Redmine where I work for about 6-8 months and I'm really impressed with it, I'd definitely say it was better than Google Code, Trac and SF. The Redmine website is actually a Redmine tracker ( http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine ) so you can get a fair idea how it works.
I don't think it's set in stone that we're switching to Redmine, I think Scott's just setting it up as an experiment to get feedback.
Luke.
On Thursday 19 November 2009 06:39:27 Dan Kegel wrote:
I'm highly skeptical of these newfangled wiki+bugzilla+scm+mailinglist thingies. It's really hard to do all those jobs well.
I think that was the general consensus on this suggestion. Most developers don't seem to think the current set-up is broken enough to make this change worth all the trouble it'll cause. IIRC Scott decided to go and give it a try anyway, so at least one of us could have an informed opinion.
Cheers, Kai
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