I'm willing to offer to host your Trac and keep spammers at bay -- it's part of my regular job duties already, what's another server? -- but I think the project as a whole is better off moving more onto the Github platform. There'll be some short term pain but you'll get a lot more long-term benefit from the really active Github community.
- R.
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On 2016-02-23 12:12, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
Hello devs and list lurkers
You all might have noticed the hickups we recently had with our Trac platform. Our Trac site was under heavy attack from spammers which put high load on the system and flooded the database with garbage. None of us really is a Trac expert and we failed at bringing the necessary measures in place to fight the spamming an to clean up the mess they caused.
Adam, our volunteer admin who donated his private server for hosting the Trac site wants to resign from his duties which is fair and understandable. As a first action we deactivated user registration while we're looking for alternatives.
That said, we're now looking at possible replacements for Trac or a successor for Adam who is willing to take the burden of hosting that crap. The most obvious - and already often requested - option is to migrate the tickets and the wiki pages into github. I already tested the import through the github API and that's a feasible option. But of course there are downsides: issue IDs cannot be kept and would be re-assigned. Also one cannot add tickets and comments with a date in the past.
From the 6.5K tickets we have in the database, there are ~ 200 open. I guess migrating these plus the resolved ones back to milestone 1.0.0 into github issues would give us a clean restart without loosing to much valuable data and - most importantly - without having to setup, host and protect our own tracker system.
Anyway, please raise your voice with suggestions, concerns or offers if you have experience with such a post-Trac situation.
Many thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ Roundcube Development discussion mailing list dev@lists.roundcube.net http://lists.roundcube.net/mailman/listinfo/dev