Task tracker

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 08/31/2012 04:34 PM, Karsten (quaid) Wade wrote:
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> Speak up if you disagree, but we could sure use a task tracker for the
> Infra team.
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> One idea Mike suggested is, this Trac instance is gathering dust and
> available to take over (and re-customize):
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> https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt
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> We could start using this immediately, and switch in the future. It is
> Trac, I've had varied experience with it; I know how to admin it
> fairly well, and we can customize it to this team with minimal effort.
> (Nice to not have to invest too much in making a workflow.) My biggest
> concern right now would be running at a larger scale - what happens
> over time? What happens if other project teams want an integrated task
> tracker? (The latter would make project management and getting an
> organized release out the door easier.)
>
> I looked around at the current state of FOSS tools that are offered as
> a service, and didn't get too excited.
>
> http://www.hostedredmine.com/
> https://ovirt-infra.teamlab.com
>
> I've also looked at teambox.com in the past, but their no-cost
> services are limited. (They also haven't released any timeline or
> roadmap about open sourcing the latest version, the older versions are
> FOSS; I haven't looked at what it would take to run the service
> ourselves.)
>
> There are several services that are FOSS and we could run ourselves,
> such as the above Trac and Redmine.
>
> I strongly urge us to avoid using services that are not FOSS. There
> are many competitive ones in the proprietary markets, and a few offer
> no-cost usage for open source projects. I get concerned about locking
> our data and workflows in to a particular vendor. I would rather pick
> the best-of FOSS and be a strong user to support more development on
> our choice. Unfortunately, this does limit our choices in what is
> offered as a service.
>
> - - Karsten
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I am not really a fan of all of the above.  Most of the hosted sites are 
going to limit you because they want to encourage you to pay so I think 
something hosted on a VPS or something we can move the data to another 
host if we need to.  With that said the most import aspect of any system 
we chose is that at least 1 trusted person on the infra team knows it 
pretty well because there is nothing worse then learning a system when 
it is down or you are under the gun.

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Thanks
Robert Middleswarth
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