Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Openacs.org upgrade status: Bug Tracker woes

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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on
The SourceForge bug tracker sucks fairly badly; I don't particularly recommend that OpenACS use it.

It would also be really annoying (and rather embarassing to the project) to see all the old bug data in the current bug tracker simple abandoned. Nearly as bad would be to keep the "old" openacs.org site running solely in order to access the old bug tracker. OpenACS already did both those things once when converting openacs.org from OpenACS 3.x to 4.x - just plain ugly.

I would like to hear Lars' opinion of Bug Tracker, as well as anyone else who is familiar with the Bug Tracker internals. Is Bug Tracker basically fine and just needs some query tuning? Does it suffer from serious internal design problems? Is it too complicated? Or what?

Since Malte already figured out how to upgrade the openacs.org Bug Tracker, tuning the queries seems fairly likely to be both the least effort and best result path. Major rewrites of Bug Tracker are probably premature until someone at least tries seriously to figure out why those queries suddenly suck so badly, despite being ok on the old (current) openacs.org site.