[Box Backup-dev] Subversion repository moved / Trac now online

[Martin Ebourne]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:39 +0100, James O'Gorman wrote:
> Following yesterday's announcement by Ben, the Subversion repository has
> now been transferred and is integrated into Trac.
> 
> The Subversion repository can still be accessed in the normal way, via:
> http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/svn/box
> 
> Trac is available at:
> http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/trac

Fantastic, thanks!

Now we've got trac I think it's worth getting some ground rules in place
for people raising tickets etc. On many open source systems the bug
tracker turns into a morass of not real bugs and esoteric feature
requests. With some control though this doesn't need to happen.

I would like to suggest the following, please shout if you've got a
different idea:

1. trac tickets should only be used for tracking real work, it is not a
place for wishlists. ie. We should not accept tickets with random
feature requests unless they are accompanied by a patch, or a developer
assigns them for active work themselves (ticket type task). The wiki is
a much better place for wishlists to develop.

2. people should only raise tickets for real bugs, not their own
configuration problems. If unsure people should discuss on the mailing
list to get confirmation before raising a ticket.

3. discussions should be discouraged in trac, they work much better on
mailing lists.

4. the raiser should leave priority and milestone alone, that should be
up to the developer.

5. Assigning to developers. Should we give a list of devs for each area
of interest so the raiser can assign it or should we assign it
ourselves? Given that there's not really clear boundaries on who does
what for box then I think we should ask raisers to leave the assignee
blank.

I don't think there's anything drastic in there, and if we apply these
or similar rules (politely!) trac should remain very manageable and
useful for developers and users alike.

If there is a consensus on these I'll write a ticket submission page in
the trac wiki and we can link to it from the new ticket page.

Do the trac tickets mail to boxbackup-dev like the commit messages?

Cheers,

Martin.