We plan to transition from RT to GitHub

From: Sawyer X

Date: June 30, 2019 18:48

Subject: We plan to transition from RT to GitHub

Message ID: 3a2729ef-b937-e4ac-fa36-b78bac17d287@gmail.com

June 30, 2019 18:48We plan to transition from RT to GitHub

Hi all, The ticketing system Perl 5 Porters are using is close to 20 years old. In internal discussions, it has become clear that this system, which suffers from 15+ years of grown complexity, cannot be maintained moving forward. This means we need to find a way forward. Over the past year, we had numerous conversations with stakeholders in the core to understand our needs. We have reviewed alternatives and determined that GitHub provides us with the most features with the least overhead, allowing us to keep as much as we can of our current setup. Being the market leader for open source hosting, it also significantly lowers the bar for new contributors, who will already know how the tooling works. For this reason, we wish to move all Perl 5 RT tickets (open and closed) over to https://github.com/Perl/perl5. As part of this work, we're moving our Perl 5 Git hosting to GitHub. Any necessary customizations, as well as the correct permissions, will be moved there as well. This work will include regular backups of the repository and issues to prevent any loss during and after the transition. To prevent death by bikeshed, we intend to have discussions for two weeks, allowing us to move forward with implementation and work out kinks long before the December freeze for 5.32.0. We will follow up with a Q&A on the differences. We request additional comments be sent to this thread or directly to me. Sawyer X, Perl 5 Pumpking. Endorsed by: Abigail Ask Bjørn Hansen Jim Keenan Nicolas R. (atoomic) Robert Spier Todd Rinaldo Karl Williamson Dave Mitchell Tony Cook Yves Orton



