[Tracker-discuss] tracker maintenance

[Brett Cannon]

On Feb 19, 2008 10:43 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
<asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:
> Hi Brett,
>
> -On [20080218 23:53], Brett Cannon (brett at python.org) wrote:
> >You do not have to be an expert at Roundup to volunteer! You can learn
> >"on the job" by doing offline development and submitting patches until
> >you are of a proper level of experience to gain commit access to the
> >code (which can be seen at XXX). If you still have a New Years
> >resolution to help Python out this is a great way to fulfill the
> >promise you made yourself for 2008!
>
> I guess the XXX was supposed to be filled in? ;)

Damn it, I even spotted that just before I sent the email and still forgot.

The code can be browsed at http://svn.python.org/view/tracker/ .

> So it basically means the Roundup stuff needs patches mostly that others
> will apply at first? Or is there also sysadmin maintenance needed?

Mostly patches and database manipulation. Maintaining the system is up
to Upfront, our host provider.

>
> >If you are interested in volunteering, please email tracker-discuss at
> >python.org. Thanks to all who have helped with the tracker already and
> >those that will in the future!
>
> Yes, I am still interested in volunteering.
>
> Like I told you before in private, I help out on the Trac project and prior
> to that I've hacked on RT2 and Bugzilla. I have helped maintain a few issue
> tracking instances (the GNATS one back in the day when I was a FreeBSD
> committer, Jira at my current job, and some Trac instances) and still
> maintain some.

Glad you are still interested! Have a look at
http://wiki.python.org/moin/TrackerDocs/ which also has links to our
meta-tracker as well as a link to docs on how to get a testing
instance of the tracker up.

-Brett