[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] VTK bug hackathon

[David E DeMarle]

I'd like to add review of merge requests to the agenda.
On Jun 21, 2016 4:54 PM, "Berk Geveci" <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:

> Brad reminded me that Mantis no longer allow new account registration (due
> to spam issues) so that may be a potential issue with using it. We can
> still make it work though; many of us have accounts anyway. I am fine with
> what others decide. I just didn't want to put undue pressure on Brad & Ben
> to make the transition quickly.
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/21/2016 09:44 AM, David Gobbi wrote:
>> > The real problem is that issues ported from Mantis have no actual
>> > description of the bug, instead they have a link to Mantis.
>>
>> That was a choice we made for CMake because the Mantis issues are
>> widely cited in the wild so we will keep it up permanently as a
>> reference.  Since we're keeping it up anyway we might as well avoid
>> duplication.  Also, the Mantis CSV export does not include the
>> descriptions so it will take a bit more work to do the migration
>> with them.
>>
>> For VTK and ParaView we can look at including the descriptions
>> if necessary.
>>
>> > This slows down the workflow.
>> >
>> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the ported issues we would:
>> > 1) locate the issue on gitlab, 2) click the provided link to
>> > see the bug description on mantis, 3) return to gitlab to
>> > modify the status.
>>
>> Yes.  I was concerned about that at first for CMake but it has
>> been surprisingly easy to work with the dual pages since the
>> migration (e.g. via browser tabs).
>>
>> -Brad
>>
>>
>
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