[Numpy-discussion] Migrating issues to GitHub

[Eric Firing]

On 02/11/2012 10:44 AM, Travis Oliphant wrote:
> This is good feedback.
>
> It looks like there are 2 concerns:
>
> 1) no way to add attachments --- it would seem that gists and indeed
> other github repos solves that problem.

Not really, in practice.  Yes one can use these mechanisms, but they are 
much clunkier and more obscure than simply being able to attach files 
via an immediate interface.  So the barrier to actual use is high.

> 2) You must be an admin to label an issue (i.e. set it as a bug,
> enhancement, or so forth).

A third problem is that the entire style of presentation is poorly 
designed from a use standpoint, in comparison to the sourceforge tracker 
which mpl used previously.  The github tracker appears to have been 
designed by a graphics person, not a software maintainer.  The 
information density in the issue list is very low; it is impossible to 
scan a large number of issues at once; there doesn't seem to be any 
useful sorting and selection mechanism.
>
> This second concern seems more of a problem. Perhaps this is something
> that can be brought up with the github developers directly. Not
> separating issue permissions from code permissions seems rather
> unfortunate, and creates work for all admins.

This doesn't seem so bad to me, at least compared to the *really* bad 
aspects.

>
> On the other hand, it might force having an admin who is paying regular
> attention to the issues which is not necessarily a bad thing.
>
> So, despite the drawback, it seems that having issues on Trac and having
> code-conversations on those issues happening separately from the
> pull-request conversations is even less optimal.

The one good thing about the github tracker is its integration with the 
code.  Otherwise it is still just plain bad, and will remain so until it 
is given an information-dense tabular interface, with things like 
initiation date, last update, category, priority, etc.  Down with 
whitespace and icons! We need information!

Eric
>
> -Travis
>
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io
>> <mailto:travis at continuum.io>> wrote:
>> > How to people feel about moving the issue tracking for NumPy to
>> Github? It looks like they have improved their issue tracking quite a
>> bit and the workflow and integration with commits looks quite good
>> from what I can see.
>> > Here is one tool I saw that might help in the migration:
>> https://github.com/trustmaster/trac2github
>> > Are there others?
>> > -Travis
>> >
>>
>> This is probably less of an issue for numpy, but our biggest complaint
>> about the github tracker for matplotlib is the inability for users to
>> add attachments.
>>
>> The second complaint is that it is awkward to assign priorities (has
>> to be done via labels). Particularly, users can not apply labels
>> themselves.
>>
>> Mind you, neither of these complaints were enough to completely
>> preclude mpl from migrating, but it should be taken into consideration.
>>
>> Cheers!
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