Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: [gNewSense-users] Webapps infrastructure

[Sam Geeraerts]

Karl Goetz schreef:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:42:12 -0400
> Jean Schurger <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > What do we *need*?
> > > - Wiki (community editable)
> > > - Bug tracking system
> > > - 'locked' website (eg, all our existing www. sites)
> > > - supports translations cleanly
> > > - all items must integrate
> > > - A gmane thingy (what are these services called?)
> > > - We have to be able to migrate all our existing data into the new
> > > tools (preferably with data intact)
> > >
> > > What would be *desirable* (vs needed)?
> > > - no track record of regular, large security issues
> > > - scalable
> > > - well documented
> > > - integrates with RCSs (svn+bzr+git as a minimum)
> > > - for the BTS, email interface
> > > - web interface
> >
> > I would recommend 'trac' or 'redmine'
>
> Trac I've worked with - briefly - redmine in new to me.

I've also played around with Trac a bit. I really liked it.

> > about trac: (http://trac.edgewall.org/)
> >
> >  advantages:
> >
> >   - writen in python, so it easy to understand, write plugins,...
>
> This is particularly nice, as the language its in doesn't need patching
> every second day either...

I'm dabbling a bit in Python. Having more Python stuff in/around gNS 
might give me some fun itches to scratch. I also think we're more likely 
to attract contributors that know Python than those that know Ruby.

Trac supports UTF-8 properly, which will please the translators. I guess 
Ruby also supports it.

I found a plug-in that adds an e-mail interface [2].

<snip>
> >  drawbacks:

The only thing I could find about moving from pmwiki to trac was a 
message on laconica-dev [1]. Laconica is on Trac now, so they seem to 
have managed it. I can't find how they did it, though.

I'm not sure about scalability. Before 0.10 Trac only supported SQLite, 
which may or may not be an indication of its backend performance.

> > about redmine: (http://www.redmine.org/)

The feature list gives a very mature impression, but I've never heard of it.

[1] http://mail.laconi.ca/pipermail/laconica-dev/2008-July/000169.html
[2] https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/email2trac