[tor-dev] Survey on Tor Trac usage and how you manage your tasks

[Karsten Loesing]

On 10/20/11 5:34 PM, Erinn Clark wrote:
> * Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing at gmx.net> [2011:10:19 16:12 +0200]: 
>> 2. Try harder to include diffs in tor-wiki-changes notifications.  I
>> looked for an option that does this in Trac 0.12, but didn't find one.
>> Erinn, do you know how we could implement this change?
> 
> I found this: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/1660 
> 
> If we are feeling adventurous, I suppose we could try the very old patches
> listed there. Otherwise we might just want to comment on the bug and say we
> wish to have this feature and ask what the status is.

Hmm, not sure if I feel this adventurous.  Patching Trac means we'll
have to patch it every time there's an update, right?  Probably not
worth it for this change.  I'd say it's better to let people click on a
link in an email if they care about the wiki diff than to risk breaking
Trac.

Thanks for looking this up!

>> 4. Investigate whether we can merge "new", "assigned", "reopened", and
>> "accepted" into a single "open" status.  Erinn said we can do this in
>> Trac.  I had some trouble getting rid of the "new" status when trying
>> this in Trac 0.12, but didn't look too closely.  Erinn, can you try to
>> implement this in our Trac?
> 
> How did you try it? I am nervous to try it on our current trac unless we
> schedule a 'maintenance' window where we tell everyone trac might be broken. I
> believe weasel has a test trac installed, I will look into testing it there
> instead.

I tried this by editing trac.conf, probably similar to how you
implemented our needs_review and needs_information statuses.  I don't
have a clean diff yet.  If you give me our trac.conf (maybe via private
mail), I'll try again next week.

Thanks,
Karsten