[TOS] pretty book status 0000 UTC 20100330

Jeff Sheltren jeff at osuosl.org
Fri Apr 2 14:35:00 UTC 2010


On 03/30/2010 07:46 AM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:13:14AM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>>
>> We absolutely do need this.  How do we get it?
>
> One idea I had was to start a new project on fedorahosted.org, with
> Trac (and either svn or git.)  We could have that up pretty quickly.
> One advantage of that model is that we get to plug in to the mature
> Fedora account system for everything from casual reporters to
> administrators.
>
> Trac isn't the best bug tracking software, but it works well enough.
> Since we are more likely to need task tracking with a few bug reports
> thrown in (based on previous experience with free content guides),
> Trac could do the job just fine.
>

I agree that trac is a good candidate.  It's pretty light weight from an 
admin standpoint, and it has a simple enough front-end to not confuse 
students with over-complicated UI.

Would you like me to toss up a hosted trac/svn instance at OSL?  I'm 
glad to do so, or help out however I can should you prefer to host it 
elsewhere.

-Jeff



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