[Libosinfo] Anyone watching the fedorahosted bug tracker?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:57:48PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:26:42PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> The libosinfo bug tracker seems to be entirely ignored, doesn't look like any
> >> bug that's ever been filed has had a response:
> >>
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo/report/8
> >>
> >> There's at least 3 patches in there as well.
> >>
> >> I assume this is mostly due to trac being really easy to ignore, and default
> >> assignee + cc list not setup. How do people feel about moving the bug tracker
> >> to bugzilla.redhat.com product=Virtualization Tools, which is what libvirt*,
> >> libguestfs, and virt-manager use.
> >>
> >> If so the process would be:
> >>
> >> - request the component with bugzilla-requests at redhat.com. they will need
> >> default assignee and cc list at least.
> >> - change libosinfo.org to point to the bugzilla instance rather than trac
> >> - once that's done, transfer over all the trac bugs, though I suspect many of
> >> them are obsolete.
> >> - send a request to fedora infrastructure to disable the trac bug tracker for
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/libosinfo/    (in fact, they can probably disable
> >> this page entirely, it's redundant since there's already libosinfo.org)
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > If there is not much traffic on trac, we could also add that list to the
> > default CC: list of new bugs. bugzilla.redhat.com is also fine with me.
> 
> Never really liked trac so moving to bugzilla would be nice.

Agreed.

> Talking of which, I never understood why libosinfo lives on
> fedorahosted. Could we maybe move it to libvirt, freedesktop.org,
> gitorious or any other non-distro-specific infra? Any thoughts on
> this?

We didn't use libvirt because we didn't want to imply it was only
usable with libvirt. The administration speed of freedesktop.org
leaves alot to be desired, so I'd say we could pick gitorious.org
since that's a nice self-service administration system backed by
free software.

Regards,
Daniel
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