[Biopython-dev] Bugzilla --> RedMine --> GitHub issues?

[Peter Cock]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Kai Blin
<kai.blin at biotech.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> PS: I'd have replied on the bug tracker, but for some reason I can't
> log in again, even after resetting the password. For some reason
> redmine hates me.
>

Biopython used to use Bugzilla, at http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/
(it was left as a read only legacy listing, but it broke last year when
the old server started to die and isn't really worth fixing).

This was moved over to RedMine, along with all the other OBF
projects. This does have some git integration, but I'm not that
taken with it - and it is yet another service for the OBF team
to maintain.

What do people think of moving over to using GitHub issues?
This would link in very well with pull requests and makes linking
to commits much simpler too. One potential issue is if and how
we could have bug reports sent to the biopython-dev mailing list
(something we touched on recently for pull requests).

A full automated move could be possible (NumPy did this), but I
think a gradual move would be fine - stop filing new issues on
RedMine and use GitHub issues in future. There are only about
100 issues open at the moment anyway, and a manual migration
would also be a good way to review some of the older tickets.

Thoughts?,

Peter