We're moving our ticketing system to Assembla

[David Pollak]

Folks,

On today's committer call, we made the final decision to move the Lift ticketing system from GitHub to Assembla.  We made the decision to move ticketing systems because the current GitHub ticket system, while visually pretty, is slow, lacks support for ordinal ordering (bug priority, milestone dates, etc.), is difficult to use for more than 40 open tickets, doesn't allow attachments, etc.

I personally would have preferred to move to a home-grown system built on top of Derek's LiftTicket system.  Unfortunately, we did not find a prime maintainer (owner) for enhancing LiftTicket code.... someone who could evolve the code into something similar to Trac or other systems. If Derek winds up having more time or if someone else shows long term dedication to LiftTicket, the choice of moving to LiftTicket remains open.

I vetoed Trac because it's got a horrid UI.

Assembla has a nice ticketing system (it's used by the Akka and Clojure teams and well regarded by both teams.)

Over the next week, we'll be migrating from the GitHub ticket system to Assembla: https://liftweb.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/tickets  Specifically:

• Indrajit will spearhead the migration of existing tickets to the new system
• For the committers, I will invite you to join the project via Assembla's invitation system
• For the community, please start opening tickets at Assembla.  Once we get our existing tickets moved over, we'll disable the GitHub ticketing system.

One of the side benefits of the new system is that we'll relax the "discuss the defect on the list first" policy as the Assembla ticketing system allows for a more robust mechanism for changing the state of tickets.

Thanks,

David

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