[Alexandria-list] Move trackers from Rubyforge to Launchpad?

[L.C. Karssen]

As Cathal mentioned in his blog I've been working on triaging bugs in
the Rubyforge tracker (thanks for the compliments Cathal!) during the
christmas holidays. I agree with him that we should be looking out for
something different to track our bugs, feature requests, etc. One of the
things I missed most was the ability to search for bugs that were NOT
part of a certain categorie or group. For example, since by the title
alone I could not always remember whether I had already triaged a bug or
still needed to look at it, it happened that I visited many of the bugs
again and again. Very inefficient. 

Today I read Mark Shuttleworth's blog post on how the number of
untriaged bugs in Inkscape had dropped immensely after it moved from
sourceforge to launchpad [2]. I've used launchpad to report a few bugs
before and it's interface is quite good. 
Disclaimer: I've not used Launchpad from the developers side of things,
so I can't tell much about its usefulness from personal experience. Are
there people on the mailing list who can?
The inkscape blog at [3] tells more about the transition, both the pros
and the cons.

An introduction to launchpad can be found at [4]. It not only has bug
reporting features, but several other nice enhancements as well. The
introduction shows how code can be shared using the Bazaar system.
Personaly I don't think it's necessary to move from SVN, but maybe the
developers have a more informed opinion on that. I saw in the tour that
bazaar can sync with SVN, so all development can than still be done in
SVN.
Since we're now thinking about new directions, new features, etc.
Launchpad's blueprint feature might come in handy. It can be used to
keep our roadmap clear as well.
And last but not least, Launchpad offers help with keeping track of
translations. Something that might come in handy as well for me
personally as I'm the translator for Dutch. 

Apparently some time ago someone from Alexandria asked the launchpad
people to allow the use of the rubyforge tracker as an external tracker
[5]. So far this bug has had no follow up. 

Finally, I discovered that Alexandria already has a launchpad entry [6].
It was registered by Dafydd Harries and old time contributor to
Alexandria. (Daffyd, if you're still on this list, could you contact
Cathal Mc Ginley <cathal.alexandria at gnostai.org> or Joseph Method
<tristil at gmail.com> to pass on the Launchpad details?)


So, please comment on this proposal. Especially if you have experience
with both the rubyforge tracker and launchpad. Of course, if you know a
better tracking system thant Launchpad I'd be happy to learn about that
as well. 


Lennart Karssen.


[1]
http://www.gnostai.org/journal/2008/01/02/alexandrias-rubyforge-tracker/#more-6
[2] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/135
[3] http://www.bryceharrington.org/drupal/node/18
[4] https://launchpad.net/+about
[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/103370
[6] https://launchpad.net/alexandria 
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