[ECLIPSE] Vote for project management solution

[Manuel Prinz]

Hi Pentelis,

thanks for clarifying!

Am Mittwoch, den 17.12.2008, 16:32 +0200 schrieb Pantelis Koukousoulas:
> Since we all have very limited free time, having a web / bugzilla-like
> interface for this task seems much better since you can just assign
> something that is orphan to yourself while you are working on it and
> just orphan it again if you see you can not afford to work on this
> again for the forseeable future, leaving things open for someone else
> to continue where you left off.

This is something Alioth provides, I can't say about Launchpad. Everyone
can create an account and start to work. It also has manageable tasks
via a web interface.

> It has also nothing to do with the vcs we are using which I propose to
> be whatever everyone likes (e.g., I 'm planning to use git because I
> really like and understand it and expose it perhaps through
> gitorious or something).

I'd also prefer Git. Every Alioth user can place Git repositories into
the public_git directory in his home directory. It's then accessible to
others via http://git.debian.org/?p=users/$USERNAME/$REPO.

> So please base your decision on the technical merits of each solution
> alone, i.e., which one is faster, less annoying, more familiar to you
> to work with etc.,

Sure. This is why I went for Alioth but I'm also open for learning new
things.

> I don't see how the barrier is raised for DDs as long as the pkg-java
> repo is the authoritative source for agreed upon work. Are DDs more
> familiar with the alioth (gforge) bugtracker?

Yes, I think so. But I have no numbers on that. I know gforge from
SF.net in my long over upstream days. On the other hand, I never had a
close look to Launchpad. I heared mixed things about it but did not give
it a try; since it simply wasn't needed so far. If we go for it, I will
have. (I heared that DDs already have auto-created Launchpad accounts.
Do you know somehing about that?)

> I expect we have about 50 tasks to complete until the package is ready
> but from the perspective of this list there is only one task: "upgrade
> eclipse" :-)

Easy, isn't it?! We're almost done! ;)

> The reason I didn't just choose alioth is that the underlying platform
> (Gforge) seems to be a little
> sucky bugtracking-wise (but don't quote me on that)

I can't comment on that. It worked for me on SF.net but I have not used
it on Alioth lately. Also, I do not care much about it.

Best regards
Manuel
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