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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bugsnet
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 9 May 2021 08:33:08 BST, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail=2Ecom> wrot=
e:
>It is not good that our infrastructure is "hidden away in a dark=20
>corner", and it is true that bugs needs some TLC for a while=2E But
>Github=20
>Issues frankly sucks big time as a bug management system=2E It's hard to=
=20
>fault them as it's not their core business - but while it may be=20
>adequate for a small project, I don't see how Github system could be=20
>manageable with any serious volume=2E=20


This is my instinct as well - Github Issues seems to be adequate as a ligh=
tweight bug tracker, but how well will it scale, and how much will we miss =
"advanced" features like separately searchable and reportable fields and st=
atuses? Are we better off looking for a SaaS that can provide something mor=
e full-featured - Mantis, Phabricator, Trac, Bugzilla, YouTrack, etc?

It would probably be a useful exercise to mock up *how* we would use it - =
I'm guessing there'd be a long list of custom tags, since that's pretty muc=
h the only thing you can use for organising issues=2E I've seen some projec=
ts use prefixed tags like "01 - Component: XML" to simulate a hierarchy=2E

At a glance, it seems we get as many as 100 non-spam bugs a month, so even=
 if we don't migrate anything, we're potentially into the thousands within =
a couple of years=2E Can we do a throwaway import of a few hundred bugs to =
a test repo, and see what that might look like?

Regards,

--=20
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]