Am 17.09.2018 um 18:55 schrieb doctormo@...400...:
Thanks for the feedback Patrick.
On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 18:13 +0200, Patrick Storz wrote:
P.S. Obviously I'd also be open to move away from Launchpad prior to the 1.0 release and to "do it right" as I somehow have the feeling the idea of a separate bugtracker on GitLab is mostly due to developers being keen on finally starting to use GitLab for bug tracking but everybody being aware that the migration is a huge task which probably none of us can finish on their own. If we work together I'm certain we'll be able to accomplish this goal, though.
I'm not entirely sure that a migration is wise, let alone possible.
I'd prefer to put the current issues tracker in a read-only vault and move on.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
I intentionally wrote "move away from Launchpad" as I totally agree we do not want all old bugs migrated as-is.
As discussed on the hackfest I'd be in a favor of a solution where all current bugs are moved to an empty sub-project on GitLab (I guess that's just the read-only vault you're referring to). This allows to browse them and possibly move select bugs to other sub-projects (e.g. documentation / website / extension bugs that are still valid and well-written, but also high-importance bugs affecting Inkscape itself could be easily reviewed / moved and/or copy-edited as needed.
What we should avoid is making this change unwittingly by creating a "regression tracker" now and effectively ending up using it as a developer-only bug-tracker later while having users continue to file bugs in a tracker that's slowly starving to death.
We also discussed that the way we close the old tracker will be decisive in the way users who contributed bugs will perceive the move (i.e. wether we disgruntle them and make it unlikely they'll contribute future reports or wether we explain to them what is happening in a reasonable way which might even encourage them to help with testing and triaging going forward). Therefore we should think this through properly before getting down to action hastily and recklessly (as I know some of us tend to ;-) ).
Best Regards, Patrick