[plt-dev] Re: launchpad instead of gnats?

My own take on this is that there is non-trivial work to dothe switch
but very little work after that. (Also I don't have time for the
work.)

Robby

On Thursday, December 10, 2009, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Dec 10, Sam TH wrote:
>>
>> Of course it will be some work,
>
> IMO, "some" is bigger than you think.
>
>
>> although hopefully not all done by one person.
>
> IME, it will be almost completely done by one person, or it will not
> be done at all.
>
>
>> And I didn't volunteer any more than anyone else did.
>
> That's a *major* problem with any such suggestion, and this should be
> very obvious.  If you don't volunteer (or find someone who does), then
> you're basically throwing a pile of work on me, and this:
>
> | The whole point of this would be for you not to have to slave over
> | such features.
>
> no longer holds.
>
>
>> Obviously pointing out pros and cons is important, but we have to
>> decide on the larger issues first.  Are we happy with Gnats as bug
>> tracking software?  Do we want to maintain the bug tracking system
>> ourselves?  What features are necessary for bug tracking software?
>
> I intentionally avoided any of these questions.
>
>
>> Personally, I'm not happy with Gnats,
>
> I know some of the reasons, and I agree with most of them, but that
> still doesn't mean that I agree with doing a huge amount of work to
> get the benefits.
>
>
>> I think Robby agrees with this position as well,
>
> To clarify this: I agree with this too -- if you're going to do that
> work.  But Robby, and anyone else (except for you) are likely to give
> different answers to these two questions:
>
>   * Should we switch to Foo, provided Sam does the necessary work?
>
>   * Should we switch to Foo, provided *you* do the necessary work?
>
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