[OTR-dev] git mirror, bug tracker, etc

[Jurre van Bergen]

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On 09/10/2013 08:04 PM, David Goulet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well the previous thread is all about that! :)
>
> http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-dev/2013-August/001845.html
>
> With this new server that Ian will soon acquire, I do agree that we should
> either deploy something like gitlab or Trac or Redmine. The other
alternative is
> to move on Gitorious (Open source ftw!) but last I checked, there is
no Issue
> tracker support...
>
> IMHO, I think decentralizing is better but it's an overhead of system
> administration for cypherpunks.ca.
>
> To that, in any case, the main git repository should never be hosted on a
> commercial service (Github, Gitorious, etc...) thus I would go
personally for
> one git repository on cypherpunks (or ideally otr.im :P) along with a
tracker
> system.
>
> My two cents!
>
> Cheers!
> David
>
> Jacob Appelbaum:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thinking a lot about git repos, taking patches, doing
>> continuous integration, reproducible builds, bug tracking and so on.
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like one place where people will send us code - as well as
>> where they may report issues. It seems that no one likes or uses Source
>> Forge; I can't really blame them. I also dislike the interface provided
>> by SF...
>>
>> If I had a git mirror on github for OTR code (libotr, pidgin-otr) and
>> other related projects, would people use it? Would they prefer gitorious?
>>
>> Ideally, I'd be able to track a bug report in a way that users will find
>> worthwhile. At the moment, people are contacting me on jabber or irc but
>> the history of the bug reporting is lost.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Jake
>>

I would suggest Trac, it has a good track record in terms of security
and isn't something that runs on Ruby on Rails (Gitlab/Redmine , which
had a few very nasty remote security bugs the past year? It does require
some overhead in system administration from what I understand.

my 0,02.

Jurre

ps: I'm working on Gitian and libotr as well.

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