[Libosinfo] Anyone watching the fedorahosted bug tracker?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:40:42AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 04/17/2014 07:57 AM, 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.
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> libvirt.org would be a bit strange since libosinfo isn't libvirt specific, and
> ideally long term other projects like say cobbler would pick up libosinfo so
> it may not even be virt specific.
> 
> gitorious could work, but then if no one watches for pull requests it's just
> another place where contributions could be lost.

You can turn off pull request feature I believe.

> freedesktop would be cool, though no idea what the criteria is for getting a
> project hosted there.

I'd avoid freedesktop - whenever I've tried to do anything there it takes
weeks->months for the admins to deal with it, if at all.


Regards,
Daniel
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