Re: Tearing down Trac

[Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi%gmail.com@localhost>]

2010/11/29 Julio Merino <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>:
> Hello,
>
> A few months ago I spent quite a bit of time setting up a Trac instance to
> manage the bug tracker of ATF.  That was fun but was mostly done for my own
> issue tracking.  However, it has since then been used by a few people
> (although I don't know what the feelings are).
>
> The experiment has made me realize a few (very obvious) things: first, that
> Trac is too slow to be decently usable on my modest hardware; second, that
> maintaining such a service from my home machine is fragile and annoying[1];
> and third, that the inevitable will happen (I will change apartments soon --
> fsvo soon -- and there will be a severe downtime of the service).
>
> To ease the burden, I would like to do the following.  Keep in mind that
> Kyua[2] is where my efforts are mostly focused on nowadays, and I am taking
> care to not repeat most of the major issues (in my eyes) of the existing ATF
> codebase.  (This means that some items become impliedly "obsolete".)
>
> * Move generic tickets referring to "big projects" (e.g. parallel execution)
> to the Kyua bug tracker.  [ This bug tracker is not ad-hoc, so I don't have
> to maintain anything and is way faster. ]
>
> * Close tickets that ask for refactorings already implied by the design of
> (and/or already implemented in) Kyua.  (Maybe mention them in a TODO file.)
>
> * Move smaller, atf-specific to-do items (e.g. atf-run cli should do this
> and that) to a TODO file in the tree.  (These items can be addressed at the
> same time as Kyua is developed, and be part of new releases.)
>
> * Move bug reports to the NetBSD GNATS.
>
> I have been applying the above to a good amount of existing tickets but now
> I am left with a tiny subset of tickets contributed by other people.
>  Closing them directly is nasty (apologies if I have already done that to
> one of yours).
>
> So... would anyone object to any of the above?  (The main goal being: free
> me from the tricky administration of this poor service, which means spending
> more of my limited free time coding ;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> 1: I have been meaning to fix a few issues with my machine for a while, but
> they all require a reinstall and I don't want to go through the set up of
> Trac, Monotone, Apache, et. al. again for the few benefit that they provide.
> :-P
>
> 2: http://code.google.com/p/kyua/
>
> PS: Yes, this effectively means go "back in time" to what we had before.
>

Nuke it.

Stathis