GDAL migrates to Trac and Subversion
Trac is the best thing since sliced bread. Er, ok, maybe not *that* great, but if there’s any software product out there that embodies that gross word called synergy, Trac is it. It brings the source, bugs, and documentation (wiki) together into a lean, mean, software production machine (again, more hyperbole, but damn I like Trac).
GDAL previously existed on infrastructure spread across at least three different servers. We had CVS hosted at MapTools, Bugzilla hosted at remotesensing.org, and documentation hosted on Frank’s personal server. Having things spread around so much meant that once it was working, it was pretty much left alone, which was ok until stuff broke (thanks MySQL). Our project’s infrastructure made it very difficult for non-developer types to participate other than through maillist interaction.
In January, after approval from the project steering committee, we migrated from our CVS server to Subversion at http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal. This first step allowed us to easily move stuff around in our repository and has given us tons of flexibility. Last weekend, I migrated our Bugzilla to Trac at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal. The final step of our infrastructure migration gave us stuff we’ve always wanted like a wiki, usable milestones and development roadmaps, and a great source code browser. I’m excited and hopeful that Trac will help the GDAL project scale as it continues to attract more contributors, code, and bug reports 