[Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 22:21:27 EDT 2016


I was just asking (again) the other day if someone has an issue aggregation
tool since our issues are scattered across multiple repositories.
Presumably we are not the first to have bumped into this problem.

-walter

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> I am sure this would be helpful. However, the situation seems a bit more
> muddled.
>
> The Sugar activities, which represent 90% or more of the Sugar lines of
> code, are being relocated to the github accounts of individual
> developer/maintainers - not under a single Sugar account. At the moment
> this information is recorded in the activity.info file of the activity
> itself. This change has not yet been implemented across all of the
> activities.
>
> I don't understand the process. However, it appears that OLPC makes the
> release images. It decides which Sugar activities will be included in a
> release.
> I gather that SugarLabs has no say in this.
>
> I don't know the technical details, but it would seem desirable to
> separate issue tracking into separate Sugar and Sugar activity branches.
> The issues for Sugar related to releases (e.g. 0.108) and for Sugar
> activities to version numbers. Update to Sugar activities are independent
> from Sugar releases.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 04/03/2016 09:36 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> When sugar git moved from http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-old to
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar  in 2013, why did issue tracking stay
> at bugs.sugarlabs.org and not move to
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues ?
>
> I think it would be a good idea to move the issues, since pull requests
> can then be linked to issues (and even close them automatically by
> including "closes #issue_id" in the commit/pr message :) and development is
> concentrated in 1 place, with 1 UX.
>
> There are only 182 open issues on bugs.sugarlabs.org (
> https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=accepted&status=reopened&component=Sugar&order=priority)
> so moving them over would likely take one person 3-4 hours. I'm happy to do
> this if it would be helpful.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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